Every spring, a small group of faculty sets out to see Iowa through the eyes of folks outside Iowa City. They meet with Iowans and listen to stories of triumph and challenge, and they return with a new perspective on the state, their students and their lives as UI faculty.

Never mind that Iowa Summer Rep provides audiences with top-notch productions. UI theatre arts students get to rub shoulders with professional stage actors, and the pros find themselves re-energized by the students' enthusiasm for their art.

Author Larry Baker, a University of Iowa alumnus and faculty member, is interviewed about his new novel.

The University of Iowa Opera Theater production of H.M.S. Pinafore will dock at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts July 13-15. The following weekend, July 20-21, the production will be presented at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.

University of Iowa film-studies alumnus Eric Brightwell, awed by the immensity of Los Angeles, found a new life mapping the city's neighborhoods.

Jodie Plumert, chair of the University of Iowa Psychology Department, says riding a virtual bike "offers a way to look at this real-world problem in a very safe but systematic way.”

University of Iowa new-media specialist Jon Winet is co-founder of an experiment to learn if a novel can be written through Twitter.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and former faculty member Anthony Swofford returns to Iowa City to read from his new memoir.

An Iowa farmer and his family discovered an assortment of mammoth bones in their backyard; they hope assistance from the University of Iowa will uncover many more.

When opportunity knocks, you have to get up and answer the door. When it thumps into your window, however, you might want to reach for your camera. Paul W. Jensen did just that when a hawk landed outside his window.

Jenna Hammerich, an alumna of the Nonfiction Writing Program and now a writer/editor with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is interviewed about her essay addressing the history of radium.

Transition, the new recording by jazz studies alumnus Cassius Goens gets a thumbs-up review, and UI saxophonist Nathan Bogert and trumpeter Steven Wheeler also receive praise.