UI classics faculty member Robert Cargill debunks Discovery Channel documentary about the purported discovery of an artifact depicting Jesus's resurrection.

David Gier, director of the UI School of Music, says that despite the recruiting challenges the flood of 2008 created for UI arts programs, the staff is focusing on the positive and looking forward to the future.

Ernest Pascarella, Mary Louise Petersen Professor of Higher Education at the UI College of Education, participated in a study that illustrates the surprising impact of college on students' interest in diversity and racial understanding. As undergraduates progress in higher education, they become less interested, on average, in promoting racial understanding.

Law professor Lea VanderVelde writes that Harriet Scott may have played an important role in her husband's legal quest for freedom.

Joseph Campana writes about his joy in the publication of his Iowa Poetry Prize-winning volume from the University of Iowa Press—particularly the Grant Wood cover.

Acting student John Watkins will head to New York to pursue a theater career when he graduates after a busy schedule of University of Iowa and other local productions.

After three years on view at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, where it had been since a flood devastated the University of Iowa campus, Jackson Pollock's Mural is heading to the Des Moines Art Center. The story includes links to Tim Schoon's Iowa Now slideshow of the process.

When sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett studied at the UI, Grant Wood told her to depict what she knew. She became world famous for her dignified portrayals of African-American and Mexican women.

A commentary explains why the Jackson Pollock "Mural," owned by the UI Museum of Art and going on display in Des Moines, is one of the most important paintings in American history.

Mauricio Lasansky, who led the UI printmaking area in the School of Art and Art History to international prominence, died April 2 at the age of 97. His work, including his famous "Nazi Drawings," is featured in the collections of virtually every major art museum in the United States and Europe.