Through a $1.87 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, three University of Iowa College of Education faculty plan to improve the quality of education for K-12 English Language Learners (ELL) in Iowa’s schools.

First-year University of Iowa student Tyler Finchum operates a business in the university's Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory that sells operator manuals for agricultural implements over the internet.

University of Iowa elementary education student Rebecca Hodge will represent the state in this year's Miss USA competition.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering will induct television pioneer Edwin B. Kurtz posthumously into its Legacy of Engineering on May 8. The first public demonstration of a television broadcast developed by Kurtz and his team took place in March 1933 over television station W9XK.

Two University of Iowa undergraduate researchers in the UI Honors Program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)—Allyson Mayer and Nicholas Rolston—have been named 2012 Goldwater Scholars.

Conner Spinks, a University of Iowa junior from Des Moines, is one of only 54 Truman Scholars.

The UI Department of Mathematics will write another chapter in its renowned history of supporting minority doctoral degrees when it, in coordination with the UI Graduate College’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program, awards seven doctorates to members of underrepresented minority groups during 2012.

For the fourth consecutive year, George Washington High School in Cedar Rapids achieved the No. 1 ranking on the “2012 Iowa AP Index,” which was developed eight years ago by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

This year's Capote Award winner looks at the literary history of American women writers.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics nurses Donna Dolezal and Sandra Roberts are profiled as two of the 10 UIHC nurses included in this year's list of 100 Great Iowa Nurses. More than 13,000 nurses work in hospitals across the State of Iowa.