Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, along with writers from India, Russia, and China.

Preparing for the deluge of students as they returned to campus from winter break, University of Iowa Student Health created a page devoted to care and prevention for the flu virus.

Brian Richman, director of the university's Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance, analyzes the city of Clinton's decision to sell bonds to finance economic development projects.

Entrepreneurial-minded students Joe Dallago and AJ Nelson launched ClusterFlunk, a website students can use to share class notes, schedules, and more. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

University of Iowa College of Education Interim Dean Nick Colangelo, and recent UI education graduate Joey Ackerman, both comment on Iowa Gov. Branstad's education reform package, which puts teachers as its centerpiece.

Spencer Gillis, a University of Iowa graduate, shares his motivation for creating the short-film, Gun, one of 85 films selected to be screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

The UI has hired a contractor to cut and grind dead and dying pine trees into biomass, allowing the UI to further develop the concept of using local, sustainably managed biomass as fuel, according to Liz Christiansen, director of the UI Office of Sustainability.

Adam Keune, Alec Whitters, and Ben O'Connor co-founded the new Coralville-based startup, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI's Oakdale Research Park.

An anonymous person paid the bill and wrote a note of thanks to members of the UI AirCare team who were dining at a restaurant after attending a memorial service for three members of the Mercy Air Medical Team killed in a medical helicopter crash.

A new study by UI researcher Alissa Whitmore, a doctoral candidate in archaeology, shows that items lost down the drains of bathhouses during the Roman Empire are evidence that these spaces served as social centers where people snacked on finger food and did needlework, among other activities.