In his first novel, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar asks whether our pain matters, and to whom, and how it might be made to matter more. Akbar is an associate professor of English and director of the English and creative writing major at Iowa.

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The Daily Iowan, a non-profit university newspaper, has purchased two local newspapers saving them from shutting down. Students from the University of Iowa will help both papers cover their communities.

Aron Aji, director of the Translation programs at Iowa, was named a 2024 National Book Awards judge. He has translated poetry and prose by Turkish writers, including Bilge Karasu, Ferit Edgu, Murathan Mungan, and Ebru Ojen.

ABC News' Robin Roberts sat down exclusively with basketball star Caitlin Clark to talk about her historic college career and why she's making the jump to the WNBA now.

According to a national assessment of public universities over what increasingly is criticized as “administrative bloat,” Iowa essentially is tied with Hawaii for spending the least on administrators, according to a new state Board of Regents report. Administrative costs per full-time student across Iowa’s three public four-year universities accounted for 5.8 percent of the total “core” expenditures in the 2022 budget year — second only to Hawaii’s 5.6 percent, and well below adjacent states like South Dakota, at 13 percent; Minnesota, with 12 percent; and Missouri at 10 percent.

Too much to describe happened in this ardent college town Sunday, so you’re better off not even trying to describe it. Start trying, and soon you’re pulled like mutant taffy toward this sight or that and that sound or this from a crammed senior day at Iowa, the day Caitlin Clark passed “Pistol” Pete Maravich to top all major college point-gatherers.

Clarissa Chun, head coach of the Iowa women's wrestling program, is one of the nominees for USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country.

On this podcast, Donika Kelly joins Kevin Young to read “One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, and her own poem “Sixteen Center.” Kelly is the author of two poetry collections, and the recipient of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, she teaches at the University of Iowa.

Caitlin Clark, the University of Iowa basketball phenom, is now officially in the history books.