UI law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig shares her experience with race and college admissions in the context of recent court rulings on the topic.

UI neurologist Eric Dyken participated in a program about sleep, including the effect of darker nights on your sleeping habits, correlation between sleep and dementia, a new study that shows the brain clears out harmful toxins while you sleep, and sleep and diabetes risk.

The Global Warm Mix Asphalt Workshop will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 30 and 31, at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Coralville, co-sponsored by the University of Iowa and several companies.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering hosted a group of faculty members and administrators Oct. 21 from various universities in India.

Drawing on musical influences from around the globe, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy offer up a performance filled with fiddling, dancing, and song when University of Iowa’s Hancher presents Masters of the Fiddle Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City.

The top bands of the University of Iowa School of Music will take center stage with the annual Band Extravaganza at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Band Extravaganza is a popular showcase for the Johnson County Landmark jazz band, the Symphony Band, and the Hawkeye Marching Band.

Bruce Gantz, head of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, directs a multidisciplinary center at the University of Iowa that is driving improvements in cochlear implant technology, developing new implants for deaf children and adults, and preparing the field for advances in regenerative medicine.

A collection of 13 studies by the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa is being used by the Commonwealth Fund for its analysis of the local impacts of the federal Affordable Care Act.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

A second $10 million gift commitment from former Maquoketa, Iowa, residents Jerre and Mary Joy Stead to improve children's medicine at the University of Iowa will create four new faculty chairs and establish funds to support innovation and leadership development.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, associate professor of religious studies in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will read from her new book, "The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality," at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.