The University of Iowa College of Education recently celebrated a major fundraising milestone, reaching its goal of raising $30 million. The fundraising campaign, part of the university-wide campaign "For Iowa. Forever More," started in 2008 and will end in December 2016.

Dawn Bowlus, director of the UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship, helped American Girl develop support materials for its latest doll, an entrepreneur.

The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety will test the Hawk Alert emergency notification system at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19 as required by federal law.

As a black man, Frank Holbrook was at times a target of opposing players on account of his race. This ugly reality was perhaps no more stark than on Nov. 9, 1896, when the Hawkeyes traveled to the University of Missouri.

The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Parker Executive Search of Atlanta, Georgia, as the search firm for the selection of the next president of the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason will meet with media representatives to share updates on the university and take questions on the record at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, at 101 Jessup Hall.

A University of Iowa study in mice shows that disrupting one protein can simultaneously curb alcohol cravings and protect the heart and liver from alcohol-induced damage.

University of Iowa guard Samantha Logic is one of 10 finalists for the 2014-15 Senior CLASS Award. The Racine, Wisconsin, native is the lone finalist from the Big Ten Conference.

University of Iowa researchers have found that PCB chemicals—once used for cooling and other purposes by industry, then banned by the U.S. Congress in 1979 due to their toxicity—can be removed from soils by switchgrass working in combination with microorganisms. Results appear in the journal Ecological Engineering.

Public health researchers report about 1 in 5,000 boys in the United States, between 5 and 9 years old, have Duchenne muscular dystrophy or Becker muscular dystrophy. Results appear in the journal Pediatrics.

A program at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa is helping to promote cultural understanding among the diverse staff at the lab. The program was made possible thanks to a seed grant from the UI’s Human Resources/Staff Language and Culture Services .

The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Pappas Consulting Group, Inc., to continue the review of two academic areas at the three public universities beginning in March. TIER, or the Transparent Inclusive Efficiency Review, identified several areas for review in academics.