Researchers at the University of Iowa have explained how infants learn by looking, and the crucial role these activities play in how infants gain knowledge. Their computer model of babies aged 6 weeks to one year shows how infants use looking to create knowledge and to sear that knowledge into memory. The model also explains how infants' looking and learning changes as they develop. Results appear...

Hannah Walsh, a University of Iowa sophomore political science major from Spirit Lake, says she looks forward to representing her peers' interests and concerns as the newly appointed student member of the Iowa Board of Regents, pending Iowa Senate confirmation.

Buildings and statues constructed of limestone can be protected from many of the effects of environmental degradation by applying a thin, single layer of a water-resistant coating, according to University of Iowa researchers and their Cardiff (U.K.) University colleagues. The paper is published in "Scientific Reports," a new online, open access journal from the publishers of "Nature."

The complete work of one of the University of Iowa’s famous alumni has found its home in the University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present a graduate and undergraduate dance concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 6-8, in Space Place Theater of North Hall.

Iowa Percussion and the PanAmerican Steel Band welcome winter to Iowa City with "Holiday Percussion Pops," which will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. The concert, under the direction of Dan Moore, professor of percussion in the University of Iowa School of Music, is free and open to the public.

Three University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded the distinction of 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

The University of Iowa School of Music jazz faculty ensemble will perform original compositions at a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City.

The Gallery series of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present "Champagne Gods," a student production written by Emily Dendinger and directed by Kristin Clippard, at 8 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, Dec. 6-8, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Charles Baxter and University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Arda Collins will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Steel Band II and III, student ensembles in the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free concert at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, in Room 150 of Music West Interim Building on the UI campus.

As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama courted female voters throughout the presidential election, many women’s issues received heavy media attention. In the University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll, voters from Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio were asked a series of questions about women’s issues, including equal pay, coverage for contraceptives, and funding for women’s health organizations. Partisanship and gender...