Before College GameDay took the stage in Iowa City last weekend, members of the on-air team made a special visit to the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital, a facility perched high above Kinnick Stadium that is home to one of college football’s most beloved traditions: the Hawkeye Wave.

The "Hawkeye Wave" happens at every Iowa Hawkeyes home football game, where the entire stadium turns away and waves at the kids in the windows of the neighboring children's hospital.

A University of Iowa poet and creative writing professor will be in central Iowa tomorrow to promote her debut novel, which reimagines the definition of an epic poem. Paige Lewis is in her fifth year of teaching at the Iowa City institution and her book, “Canon,” took her almost eight years to complete.

Pat McAfee faced criticism over the weekend for a controversial donation he made to the University of Iowa's Stead Family Children's Hospital – backlash he himself said was warranted. And he's pledging to up his donation in response.

Professor Nicholas Bowman tells Inside Higher Ed that college rankings still matter to students applying to selective universities, especially international students. Bowman, the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, studies college rankings and urges skepticism.

For the first time in 20 years, ESPN’s College GameDay is returning to Iowa City, setting up live from Pentacrest Lawn at the University of Iowa.

What normally happened was that a prey animal was tied to a stake and positioned in a disguised pit, explains UI historian Sarah Bond. At the Colosseum, Bond says, “there was a whole underground area with cages and ‘elevators’ that created a zoo-like labyrinth — visible to this day — underneath the sand and floorboards.”

Shawn Datchuk, a professor of special education at the University of Iowa and former director of the Iowa Reading Research Center, says schoolchildren are writing less, too — and forget about cursive.

UI History Professor Nick Yablon wrote a blog for the New York Historical’s website, "A Journey Up Broadway: Discovering a Remarkable 1905 Photo Album."