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.

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.