Some 20 Iowa high school students participated in the Innovation Institute—a new two-week University of Iowa intensive summer program that focused on technical and entrepreneurial skills.

Coon Rapids, Iowa native Dora Grote describes her reasons for coming to the University of Iowa and her education in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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.

Fifth and sixth-graders created a tasty ice cream treat this week as part of the week-long Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship camp at the UI, which shapes young minds on how to network, budget, and make a product.

For the tenth straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

Twenty top high school students from across Iowa will gather on the University of Iowa campus to participate in a two-week intensive summer program July 6-18 where they’ll learn technical and entrepreneurial skills to create their own working apps, which could earn them seed money to fund their own startup technology companies.

Here is the latest official information about flood preparation efforts at the University of Iowa.

Recent UI graduate Katie Kuntz knew that three minutes wasn't enough to tell the story of the children of methamphetamine users, so she expanded her journalism class project into a senior thesis documentary, which will premier in Council Bluffs this week.

The UI is offering Summer Hawk Tuition Grants for students who entered as freshmen in 2013 and took at least 12 semester hours of credit in the fall and spring; the program helps students stay on track to graduate in four years.

Almost 60 teachers from across the state of Iowa are participating in teacher feedback sessions this June, part of an on-going process to polish the University of Iowa College of Education's Iowa Testing Programs assessments, which are taken by 400,000 students in Iowa and upwards of 5 million nationwide.

An online library of interactive flood inundation maps for the Cedar River, developed by the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, allows users to adjust the settings of the maps based on water levels, current and predicted, as well as historical crests to create models of different flooding scenarios.

UI English professor Blaine Greteman writes that the current humanities death knell is only the latest in a centuries-long hue and cry: "Anyone following the humanities death watch for the last 600 years would be struck both by its recurring characters and its disconnect from objective fact."