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.

Iowa Citian Mary Vermillion, the author of the Mara Gilgannon mystery series, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Monday, June 18.

The 2012 Iowa Summer Rep season of “Chills and Thrills” will open with a racy, Monty Pythonesque satire of the mystery genre, Joe Orton’s "What the Butler Saw."

University of Iowa professors and students took to the roof of Van Allen Hall Tuesday evening, June 5, to set up five telescopes built exclusively for observing the sun for a public viewing of Venus's transit across the sun. An overcast sky prevented all but a few brief glimpses of the rare astronomical event.

The University of Iowa's Global Education Summer Institute for Teachers will bring 35 middle, junior, and high school educators from Iowa’s four congressional districts to the UI campus for three days of training, guest speakers, group activities, and workshops, all at no cost to the teachers.

The new memoir by Jarhead author Anthony Swofford, an alumnus and former faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is reviewed.

The UI-assisted mammoth dig near Oskaloosa is attracting international attention.

Top high-school musicians from throughout the Midwest and as far away as Texas are converging on the University of Iowa for the 2012 Iowa Summer Music Camps, which will offer nine free concerts June 12-29.

A mini-Carnaval at 4:30 p.m., Friday, June 8, outside the University of Iowa Theatre Building will feature music, dance, masks, and puppets, along with stilt-walkers from Canada's Swizzlestick Theatre.

A recent article in The Edge asked, “Tanna Frederick: Does She Ever Rest?” It’s a fair question about Hollywood’s new Queen of the Indies.