Brady G'Sell, assistant professor in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, and Osamamen Oba Eduviere, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies, write about how Iowa has become “a home away from home” for a growing population of African immigrants.

Thomas Oates, chair of the Department of American Studies and associate professor, contributes to this article about a range of football-related topics leading up to Super Bowl LVIII, from the partisan food divide to the numbers behind the biggest gambling bonanza in league history.

On this edition of Iowa Press, our guests are Jeff Chelesvig, president and CEO of Des Moines Performing Arts, and Andre Perry, executive director of Hancher Auditorium and the Office of Performing Arts and Engagement at the University of Iowa. They discuss the value of performing arts to Iowa and Iowans, as well as the variety of facilities and programming both administrators oversee.

The sun constantly spews gas and particles charged with electricity into space at a million miles per hour. The stream, known as the solar wind, helps ward off rays that are harmful to Earth and can help create the northern lights on planets. One day last December, it disappeared as it approached both our planet and Mars. In response to the sudden lull in the solar wind, the protective magnetic layer surrounding each planet unexpectedly expanded, according to scientists and a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

Many people encounter chlorine in their daily lives, whether it’s as an ingredient in household bleach or an additive that sanitizes water in swimming pools. Chlorine is also used as an antiseptic, a bleaching agent in the production of paper and cloth, and to kill microorganisms in drinking water. But this familiar chemical is also extremely toxic. And because it’s ubiquitous in many industries across the U.S., it often is released in chemical accidents and spills.

A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.

Caitlin Clark led Iowa to new heights and became a sports superhero in the Midwest with one of the game's greatest NCAA tournament runs. What's next?

The commercialization of asteroid mining is still a ways off, but in October 2023, NASA launched a scientific mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The main goal of the mission is studying the composition and structure of this asteroid, which could tell scientists more about Earth’s core since the two objects might have a similar makeup.

The fact that the lip-syncing duo was exploited and the result of industry-wide issues in pop music was irrelevant. That myopic public scorn feels familiar today. Kembrew McLeod, professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and author of several books such as “Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage and Copyright Law,” provides his insight.