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...

UI alumnus Paul Sofranco found Iowa City to be a place of self-discovery and re-invention.

Michael Kanellis, the associate dean for patient care at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, says that while Iowa faces challenges due to the economy, the state’s dental care is ahead of other states with large urban populations. "With more people out of work, the first thing they will stop spending on is dental care, and so they can end up in the hospital, which isn't good because they...

Tom Casavant, director of the UI Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, who is working this semester with the Plant Energy Biology Center in Australia, took part in a 20-kilometer swimming race in the Indian Ocean.

John Keller, associate provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate College, writes that graduate education plays a critical role in society.

Making industry connections is one of the primary goals of UI’s Marketing Institute, says the institute’s director, Rob Rouwenhorst. “The big thing is experiential learning, giving students the opportunity to have real-world consultation experience,” Rouwenhorst says.