The number of Latino students enrolled at the University of Iowa has nearly doubled to 1,600 over the last five years, and Latino students are also the leading domestic minority group enrolled at the UI.

Law professor and anti-trust expert Herb Hovenkamp says the Justice Department's decision to approve the U.S. Airways-American Airlines merger will help low-cost carriers.

Retired UI geophysics professor Ray Anderson says farmers bring him a lot of rocks they think might be meteorites, but they turn out to be "meteor-wrongs."

Ann Campbell, UI associate professor of management sciences, looks at the challenges of relief transportation to isolated, devastated places like the Philippines.

Members of the media are invited to attend the 17th Annual University of Iowa International Day for Human Rights Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 9 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Coralville. Hundreds of middle school students will participate in the conference with the theme "The Human Right to an Adequate Standard of Living."

Dr. Jennifer Robinson, University of Iowa professor for medicine and epidemiology, says that a healthy lifestyle is the most important factor in avoiding heart attacks and strokes.

Encouraging driving alternatives and fewer metered spaces on campus have led to a significant drop in the number of parking tickets issued on campus this year.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Bad Boyz of Double Bass, featuring Volkan Orhon, UI associate professor of double bass, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

In remembrance of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and others associated with the university who lost their lives in combat, the Memorial Honor Roll was dedicated at the Iowa Memorial Union in 1956. Today, the honor roll occupies not only a prominent place in the Hubbard Commons; it also has a new home online.

Hawkeyes flocked to the nation’s capital this week to take part in the second Hawkeye Caucus in Washington, D.C. The event, held Wednesday, Nov. 13, gave University of Iowa President Sally Mason, deans, student leaders, and even Herky a chance to meet with congressional representatives and alumni and showcase the best the UI has to offer Iowa and the nation.

Are you one to burn the midnight oil? If so, you're invited to join the University of Iowa Rhetoric Writing Center staff for Midnight Madness walk-in tutoring on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 8 p.m. to midnight in 110 English-Philosophy Building. Experienced tutors and teachers will be on hand to assist with personal statements, scholarship essays, proposals, creative writing, and more.

Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, writes of the challenges of hand knitting gifts for family and other loved ones.