A bust of Nile Kinnick, the University of Iowa’s only Heisman Trophy winner, will be on display in the trophy case at the UI booth at the State Fair Aug. 9-18. Hawkeye fans will also have a chance to meet and reminisce with flesh and blood versions of former athletes.

Kristi Cardwell wanted to spend her summer building confidence on the golf course as she enters her senior year on the University of Iowa women's golf team. Winning a professional event as an amateur is exactly the type of confidence boost she had in mind.

A new book by Dagmar Nissen Munn tells the story of her father, George Nissen, who invented the trampoline at the UI.

After 23 years, an Iowa City native will be on the move. In mid-August, former University of Iowa men's basketball player Matt Gatens will head overseas to continue his basketball career professionally in Spain.

The first day new University of Iowa football student-athletes set foot on campus, their photographs are taken. When they check out of the Hayden Fry Football Complex four or five years later, they hardly recognize their old selves. Hawkeye center James Ferentz can attest to that, blossoming into one of the leaders on the Iowa squad.

University of Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, now the longest tenured of Big Ten Conference football coaches, spent his eight-plus minutes on the podium at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago July 26, describing how fortunate he feels to have a 22-year association with the Hawkeyes.

Former Hawkeye athlete Diane Nukuri-Johnson will be competing in the marathon for her home country of Burundi at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. A passion for running has led her away from civil strife in her homeland to a college education and a promising profession.

What Olympic sport owes its origins to the University of Iowa?

University of Iowa senior quarterback James Vandenberg has been named to the 2012 Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List, the Davey O'Brien Foundation announced.

Liang Chow, the coach of Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, followed a relative to the University of Iowa and the rest is both history and future.

University of Iowa head wrestling coach Tom Brands has signed a five-year contract to continue as head coach of the Hawkeye wrestling program through the 2016-17 season. The Hawkeyes have won three NCAA championships during Brands' first six years at the helm.

University of Iowa defensive end Dominic Alvis treats football like it is a full-time job. That workman-like attitude made it much harder to accept watching from the sidelines while rehabbing a knee injury, so he decided to work even harder to ensure he will be back in the Iowa football workforce when the 2012 season begins.