The University of Iowa's MAUI student-information system has won a "Model of Efficiency" award from University Business Magazine.

The University of Iowa is partnering with six colleges in the state to create an accelerated degree program that allows students to apply credits earned during the first year of law school toward the final year of their undergraduate degree—eliminating a year of coursework.

Writers’ Workshop instructor Kevin Brockmeier will read from his new memoir, "A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade," at 7 p.m. Monday, March 31, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free piano recital by guest artist Jose R. Lopez, associate professor and coordinator of the Keyboard Studies Program at Florida International University in Miami, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

The two west lanes of Madison Street near the UI Main Library and across from the Communications Center and Lindquist Center are closed to traffic for repairs to a chilled water line. The lanes will remain closed until the repair is complete.

Older Americans are more vulnerable when natural disasters strike, yet most of them are not adequately prepared for serious floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, or other calamities, according to a new report from the UI College of Public Health.

Current debates over the voting rights of felons and voting fraud are just the latest round of debates about voting rights in America that have gone on since the founding fathers signed off on the Constitution, said UI law professor Todd Pettys in a presentation at Muscatine Community College.

The University of Iowa Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Faculty Senate, and the Office of the Provost invite faculty to the annual Tenure Workshop Monday, March 31, in Room 116 of Art Building West.

Two lanes of northbound traffic on South Riverside Drive will be reduced to one lane near the Stanley Hydraulics Lab and approaching the Burlington Street intersection on Monday, April 7, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Kang Zhao, a UI assistant professor and an expert in business analytics and social network analysis, has created a match-making system that looks at users' behavior as they browse a dating site for prospective partners, and at the responses they receive from people they contact.

Two new University of Iowa studies suggest that personal choice is more effective than government mandate when it comes to making healthy food choices.

UI Writers' Workshop director Samantha Chang notes that the fictional Hannah Horvarth of HBO's "Girls" may face some of the same culture shock upon arriving in Iowa as do real-life students from New York.