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UI students serve others over spring break

Hawkeye Service Teams expand reach in 2017, visiting 12 US communities

By: Sara Epstein Moninger | 2017.03.27 | 10:58 am

This year, 200 Hawkeyes used their spring break to volunteer in 12 communities across the U.S., packing medical supplies in Atlanta, helping at a community garden in Denver, making breakfasts at an HIV/AIDS service organization in Dallas, and assisting at a Milwaukee homeless shelter. See how you can get involved.

Six things to do this spring

Don't miss these landmark moments on the UI campus this semester

By: Mikael Mulugeta | 2016.01.21 | 10:20 am

The University of Iowa’s spring semester promises to be eventful. Make sure to add these six events to your calendar!

A group of students stand in front of an "I Love Memphis" sign.

More students participate in UI Alternative Spring Break program

UI among national leaders in requiring common academic course for credit as part of experience

By: Anne Bassett | 2015.04.03 | 11:38 am

More than 120 University of Iowa students participated in Alternative Spring Break trips, making the UI one of only a few such programs in the country that requires students to participate in a common academic course for credit as part of the experience.

WLOX-TV UI students choose alternative spring break in Mississippi

External Media | 2014.03.18 | 02:13 pm

University of Iowa students are participating in an alternative spring break to southern Mississippi.

Behind the Capitol scenes

Law students spend spring break seeing the legislative and judicial process up close

By: Tom Snee | 2013.03.21 | 11:01 am

University of Iowa law students are spending their spring break this week in Des Moines with leaders from the Iowa legislature, governor’s office, and judiciary to see how state government works up close.

Iowa City Press-Citizen UI students break tradition with service-oriented spring breaks

External Media | 2013.03.18 | 10:19 am

Some University of Iowa students are opting for alternative, or service-learning, spring breaks including public health work in Memphis, Tenn., according to Paul Mintner with the UI Center for Student Involvement and Leadership. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Daily Iowan UI plans alternative spring break to help those with HIV, AIDS

External Media | 2012.12.14 | 10:49 am

For many students, spring break means sun bathing and spending time with friends. For 15 students at the UI, this spring break will mean rolling up their sleeves and making a difference through a public health trip where they will work with people with HIV and AIDS.

Smiles abound on the playground as Ariel Ferguson and the kids hit the slides on a sunny day.

Where dreams take root

UI students interact with, inspire youth in Chicago public schools

By: Kirk Murray | 2012.03.16 | 04:09 pm

While some UI students were planting trees in Costa Rica to create a more sustainable future, other students were planting college dreams with elementary students in Chicago over spring break.

alternative spring break

UI students serve others over spring break

Six things to do this spring

More students participate in UI Alternative Spring Break program

WLOX-TV UI students choose alternative spring break in Mississippi

Behind the Capitol scenes

Iowa City Press-Citizen UI students break tradition with service-oriented spring breaks

Daily Iowan UI plans alternative spring break to help those with HIV, AIDS

Where dreams take root

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