As an American colony for the first half of the 20th century, the Philippines has followed U.S. educational models, including creative writing programs inspired by the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will join a nationwide effort to fight obesity, funded through the Healthy Weight Collaborative.

Sherry Lang, one of 10 UIHC nurses named to 100 Great Iowa Nurses, is profiled.

UI management professor Gary Fethke says public universities must accept that higher funding levels are never coming back and plan accordingly.

For all the acclaim, standing ovations, medals, presidential command performances, and success that Simon Estes has had, he still thinks of himself at times as one of five children in a coal-mining family from Centerville, Iowa. He donates half of his fees for his Roots and Wings performances to the Simon Estes Iowa Education Foundation, which provides scholarships for state residents.

UI journalism graduate student Guannan Huang wins a Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a story about Chinese students at the UI.

School of Music alumnus Jonathan Hallstrom has conducted the orchestra at Colby College for 28 years, but will lay down his baton this spring to concentrate on teaching and composing.

"The best way to manage our waste is not to make it in the first place," says Liz Christiansen, director of the University of Iowa's Office of Sustainability. "When you look at how we use resources on this planet: take, make, waste—it relies on a never-ending source of natural resources. That is unsustainable." She was responding to the new book, The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased...

The UI employs 13 full-time staff members and nine students for the Iowa Floodplain Mapping Project of the Iowa Flood Center. The team, established following the catastrophic 2008 floods, began digitizing Iowa floodplains last year.

Thomas Jefferson Anderson, who earned a doctorate in composition from the UI School of Music, became one of the leading composers of his generation, and is now an emeritus professor at Tufts University. When he received an honorary degree from Northwestern University a decade ago the citation read, “If music is the universal language, you are a celestial linguist. With artistry, craft, and...