Thirty University of Iowa students were awarded an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award by the University of Iowa Council on Teaching.

University of Iowa 2012 English graduate Cathryn Sloane ponders life after college.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. As part of the commemoration, a team in the University of Iowa Digital Studio for the Public Humanities is creating a mobile web application, AIDS Quilt Touch.

Daniel Alder, a junior majoring in biology and environmental sciences, is a recipient of the Stanley Undergraduate Award for International Research in the amount of $2,000.

When you think of the process that enables the northern lights, think of spaghetti becoming untangled, says University of Iowa researcher Jack Scudder. He and his colleagues have reached a milestone in describing how the northern lights work by way of a process called “magnetic reconnection.”

Raúl Curto, executive associate dean in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will serve as interim dean of the college from July 1 to Aug. 15.

Stuit Hall, hub for the clinical psychology program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology, has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Leisure studies scholar David Gould comments on the difficulty Americans have finding opportunities to take their vacation time.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Jeremy Kryt reports from Honduras about the impact of drug violence.

Archeologist Bill Whittaker comments on the practice of using dousing rods to "witch" for graves.

The line-up of music and musicians is now complete for MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival June 10-16. The main events are three concerts on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, June 14, 15, and 16.

The summer 2012 schedule of live streams on the University of Iowa www.writinguniversity.org website will begin with June 6-9 readings ranging from new poetry to the dangers of voting technology.