Article celebrates the birthday of the original Nancy Drew author, UI alumna Mildred Wirt Benson.

UI communication studies prof Kembrew McLeod says an artist's digital appropriation of the portraitist's images constitutes fair use.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Nathan Englander is the winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The 25,000 euro prize is one of the richest and most prestigious prizes for short story writing. Another of the finalists was International Writing Program alumnus Etgar Keret.

Hancher is partnering with several other American arts organizations to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012.

David Fitzgerald reflects on 25 years as a University of Iowa career advisor.

Historian Marshall Poe, editor of the New Books Network, writes about the prospects for university presses.

The University of Iowa College of Law and law student Kay Oskvig are participating in a program that encourages law students to consider careers in rural areas that suffer from a shortage of attorneys.

A University of Iowa team is giving new meaning to the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Developers at the University of Iowa's Digital Studio for the Humanities created aidsquilttouch.org. It allows visitors to located loved ones on the massive quilt.

University of Iowa and state media experts hope a recent trip to the Middle East will strengthen relations with educational institutions in Turkey—a country they say is not so different from our own.

George Wine, former Iowa Sports Information director during a transformational time of Hawkeye sports in visibility and popularity, died Thursday morning at the age of 81.