Experience the sights and sounds from the Hancher construction site as artists perform during a break for construction workers with a performance that will be a part of the new facility in the fall of 2016.

About 200 students are taking classes tuition-free at the University of Iowa this summer thanks to the Hawk Tuition Grant.

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Professionals from across the state who serve the LGBTQ youth population, as well as homeless youth and those in foster care, attended Iowa’s first statewide Summit on LGBTQ Homeless and Out-of-Home Youth, which took place in the UI College of Education's Teacher Leader Center.

"The Antinomies of Realism," written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso, is the winner of the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $30,000 award—the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism—is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Dr. Hans House says a drop in the number of visits to the emergency room at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is likely seasonal and not related to Affordable Care Act-related changes.

Indianapolis 500 Media Day took place on Thursday, May 22, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Buddy Lazier, the 1996 Indianapolis 500 champion, answered numerous questions about the logo that appeared across the chest of his team racing shirt—the Wynn Institute for Vision Research logo, along with the famous Tigerhawk.

Libby Glaser, who graduated from the UI this month with a Bachelor of Arts in communications studies and entrepreneurial management, has joined the Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation staff in Spencer as the new communications and events coordinator.

Construction on the new Hancher is about 20 percent complete.

Almost six years since the Flood of 2008 inundated the original Hancher Auditorium, the University of Iowa’s new performing arts center is taking shape.

Dan McGehee, who studies driver safety at the University of Iowa, says Internet-connected cars could be a good thing, as long as automakers can figure out a way to keep people from fiddling with it while they drive.

The University of Iowa's Mobile Museum returns to Decorah May 29 and 30.