Retired Iowa Supreme Court Justice Linda K. Neuman, who teaches in the University of Iowa College of Law, is the winner of the first Equity for Women Award.

Alumna Judy Hyland is Iowa's Music Teacher of the Year.

Jody Stone was one of only 97 teachers nationwide selected for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching this year.

Each year, POWER magazine selects the most noteworthy gas-fired power plants worldwide. The UI Research Park Tri-Generation Power Plant is one of this year's seven winners.

Inara Verzemnieks, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), is one of six 2012 winners of the prestigious Rona Jaffe Writers’ Awards. She follows in the footsteps of former recipients such as Eula Biss, Amy Leach, Lan Samantha Chang, and ZZ Packer.

Elaine Showalter will receive the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin at a Sept. 14 event in the Senate Chamber of the University of Iowa's Old Capitol.

At an international competition in Italy, University of Iowa elementary education freshman Patricia Wilton recently came in fifth place for cross-country mountain unicycling in the 17- to 18-year-old female division.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher has spearheaded an effort that has resulted in Iowa City being chosen for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Any Given Child program, which creates a long-range arts education plan for students in grades K-8.

Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from "Reply All," his new collection of short stories, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in Prairie Lights Books and through a live stream on the Virtual Writing University.

Alumna Gloria Zmolek, who teaches at Linn-Mar, has been honored with the 2012 Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award by the Art Educators of Iowa.