It will be another two years before the UI Children's Hospital tower is complete, but one newly built amenity for young patients already is being put to good use; the hospital's outdoor playground, which has been closed the past two years due to construction, reopened this week.

Because of the current risk of flooding in low-lying areas, including Dubuque Street in front of Mayflower Residence Hall, visitors to the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City should avoid the I-80/Dubuque Street exit (Exit 244).

Information about flood-related University of Iowa event cancellations or changes.

Community information and resources, including volunteers opportunities, road and building closures, weather and flood forecast tools and updates by Johnson County, Iowa City, Coralville and other cities and governmental agencies.

International Programs (IP) at the UI announces a new partnership for IP’s television and radio series WorldCanvass; Starting in September, WorldCanvass will be held once a month on Tuesday nights at FilmScene, a state-of-the-art theater located on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall.

The University of Iowa Summer Opera will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Patience" at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 10-12, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

With installation of a 12-foot HESCO wall around Mayflower Residence Hall under way Tuesday, University of Iowa officials are now making plans to begin installing flood barriers around Art Building West and along the banks of the Iowa River throughout campus.

Some 300 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President's List for the 2014 spring semester.

The City of Iowa City will close the two northbound lanes of North Dubuque Street this afternoon (weather permitting) or Tuesday morning to allow for the installation of flood barriers around the University of Iowa’s Mayflower Residence Hall.

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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 Iowa Lions Eye Bank, a leading resource for research on eye diseases and cornea transplantation, is housed at the University of Iowa. Researchers are using the Eye Bank to understand blinding eye diseases and develop new treatments.