Ragamala Dance is committed to preserving an important dance heritage while pushing the art form forward. "Sacred Earth" unifies this unique dance vision with other forms of art. The UI’s Hancher will present Ragamala Dance March 6 and 7 at Space Place Theater.

The University of Iowa celebrated the new Main Library Learning Commons with a grand opening on Feb. 21.

An innovative cross-disciplinary course in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has computer science students working with performing arts students to choreograph a dance, and then program a troupe of robots to perform it.

The 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, hosted by the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center, will bring more than 150 of the top science and math high school students from across the state to the UI campus Feb. 27 and 28.

The University of Iowa will host the Samuel L. Becker Memorial Conference Feb. 27 through March 1 and kick off a public Community Conversations series March 1 to honor the life and work of the noted communications scholar and distinguished professor emeritus.

A website ranking of the best online Bachelor's of Business Management degree programs ranks the program offered by the Tippie College of Business as among the 20 best such programs in the country.

University of Iowa marketing students are using their newfound expertise to help a pair of eastern Iowa towns build their economies by attracting new employers and new residents.

The University of Iowa Phi Kappa Psi fraternity presented UI President Sally Mason with a check for $100,000, which will endow the Nile C. Kinnick Scholarship Fund. The endowment ensures scholarship awards for future generations of incoming UI freshmen with outstanding high school achievements.

The UI College of Education hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Research Symposium on Feb. 7. The event highlighted student research on issues of diversity, covering topics ranging from student interest in STEM to differences in moral reasoning in a religiously diverse student body.

University of Iowa leaders will celebrate the completion of the Learning Commons, a tech-infused, comfortable, flexible study space with a one-stop academic help center in the UI Main Library.

Ben Mauk, UI adjunct associate professor of communications, writes of the controversy about what kinds of intellectual property can or cannot be used by artists as fair use.

UI College of Pharmacy students are learning to collaborate with other health care professionals to benefit patients, thanks to an 18-month pilot course, Interprofessional Skills and Team Based Health Care, that was launched last fall.