The University of Iowa’s Hancher has announced its lineup of performances for the 2015-2016 season. Season highlights include Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, mandolinist Chris Thile performing Bach, Ellis Marsalis, and Bobby McFerrin. Tickets go on sale Aug. 24.

With the recent conclusion of the 2015 legislative session, the University of Iowa is moving forward with a salary program for 2015-16. The overall average salary increases for faculty and staff will be between 1 percent and 3 percent.

The University of Iowa encourages the public to attend an open house and the first of two public meetings to discuss the proposed repurposement of the existing 1936 Art Building located at 200 N. Riverside Dr. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. June 18 in 2520D University Capitol Centre.

In a study that seems to defy conventional dietary wisdom, UI scientists have found that adding high salt to a high-fat diet actually prevents weight gain in mice. The findings highlight the profound effect non-caloric dietary nutrients can have on energy balance and weight gain.

The nation's first Latino Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, is a University of Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate.

A new partnership with the University of Iowa College of Public Health will allow students at Coe College in Cedar Rapids to earn their Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees in five years.

"U.S. News & World Report" has ranked University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City in nine specialties in the new 2015-16 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. UI Children’s Hospital is the only hospital nationally ranked for pediatric care in Iowa.

The University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business will begin offering a new certificate program in business analytics in Des Moines starting this fall, providing Central Iowa working professionals an opportunity for advanced study in a rapidly growing field.

University of Iowa Police received a report of a sexual assault that occurred in the early morning hours of June 6, 2015.

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited the University of Iowa campus to attend an annual meeting with Faculty Senate and Staff Council officers Thursday. Three groups from the arts and humanities gave presentations to Branstad and Reynolds, and the dignitaries toured the UI Mobile Museum.

A miniature version of the University of Iowa’s advanced driving simulator will participate in a clinical trial later this year to assess a patient’s driving ability after cataract surgery.

A multi-center study led by infection control experts with UI Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent.