The Iowa Academy of Education inducted Susan Assouline and Don Yarbrough, professors in the University of Iowa College of Education’s Psychological and Quantitative Foundations Department, as new members for making significant scholarly contributions to the field of education.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is one of the world's great ensembles, and in this Hancher performance the music celebrates another famed ensemble.

A UI team was lauded for taking a unique approach in returning unanticipated genetic results in a story on a contest sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital that challenged researchers to interpret the genomes of families whose children have undiagnosed diseases.

Daniel Reed, the UI's new vice president for research and economic development, seeks to provide the "seed corn" to expand research programs at the UI and accelerate promising advances into the marketplace.

University of Iowa anthropologist Russell Ciochon says there is no Bigfoot in a story about how Spike TV is offering $10 million dollars for irrefutable proof of the beast's existence as part of a new reality show.

Two UI experts—David Moser and Andy Peterson—share what causes concussions and how student athletes have more exposure during practice in a story on how football caused one-third of such injuries at Iowa universities last year.

When University of Iowa law professor Enrique Carrasco reads a legal case about contract law, he doesn’t see a dry recitation of facts and obligations. He sees drama.

The University of Iowa Symphony Band and Chamber Winds will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

George Wehby, a researcher in the UI College of Public Health, discovered South American babies and toddlers living at high altitude were more likely to score poorly on early tests of brain development in a recently published study in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Nancy Hall, environmental microbiology manager with the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa, says sunlight is nature's way of cleansing water in an article on the significant health risks posed by Hurricane Sandy.

The contributions of the more than 900 University of Iowa faculty, staff, and student veterans will be recognized at a UI Veterans Reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in Room W401 of the Tippie College of Business' Pappajohn Business Building.

Excerpts from Kurt Vonnegut: Letters provide a glimpse into his relationship with his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Jane Marie Cox. Huffington Post prints part of one letter written in 1966 that was sent just before he began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.