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FilmScene rooftop patio with umbrellas and seats

WorldCanvass partners with FilmScene for 2014-15 season

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
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.

Opera Theatre to present 'Patience' July 10-13

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
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.

UI prepares to expand flood barrier installation

Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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.

UI students named to President's List for spring 2014

Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Some 300 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President's List for the 2014 spring semester.

Northbound lanes of Dubuque Street to close for flood barrier installation

Monday, June 30, 2014
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.

Achievements: UI faculty, staff, students, and alumni making news

Monday, June 30, 2014
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.
mother helping son with homework

UI graduate premiers documentary in Council Bluffs about children of meth users

Monday, June 30, 2014
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.
Robert F. Mullins, Ph.D., studies degenerative diseases of the retina in his lab at the UI Carver College of Medicine.

More than meets the eye

Friday, June 27, 2014
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.
Visiting professor Naowarut Charoenca studies tobacco use and control in her home country of Thailand. Photo by Paul Curry.

Visiting Thai professor cherishes her Iowa connections

Friday, June 27, 2014
Naowarut Charoenca can’t help but appreciate the value of relationships—those developed over a lifetime, as well as the new ones she is cultivating with colleagues as part of a three-month visiting professorship in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

UI free summer tuition grant program kicks off

Thursday, June 26, 2014
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.
desk with books, apple, globe

Accreditation strong at teacher prep schools

Thursday, June 26, 2014
The UI, UNI, ISU and Drake teacher training programs are accredited by the Iowa Board of Education through a system managed by the Iowa Department of Education; they forego national accreditation because the state standards are more rigorous.

UI students named to Dean's List for spring 2014

Thursday, June 26, 2014
Some 3,800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's List for the 2014 spring semester.