UI College of Education students participated in workshop simulating how children with visual disabilities feel in a classroom; Will Coghill-Behrends, director of professional development, says the goal is for teachers to be able to detect visual dysfunctions that impede student learning.

A physicist and a pitcher talk about the beauty of a breaking ball.

On Feb. 18, a student reported to University of Iowa staff that on Jan. 27 at about 9:30 p.m. the student was walking on the west riverbank near the railroad tunnel by the Fine Arts building when the student was approached by three unknown college age males and the student was sexually assaulted.

Krishna Das, who received his Master of Arts from the UI College of Education in 2000, volunteered to spend a year in Iraq because he believed he could make a difference, making the leap from an education scholar to an international diplomat working for the U.S. Department of State.

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.

The University of Iowa will host the traveling exhibit “Black Health Legends - Pioneers Who Dared to Care” on the health sciences campus in February and March. The display features notable achievements of African-American health care pioneers.

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.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will hold auditions Feb. 22 and 23 for four, Non-Equity actresses/singers for the 2014 summer tour of Respect: A Musical Journey of Women, part of the Iowa Summer Rep Tour 2014.

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.

Hancher is presenting the Jupiter String Quartet in collaboration with the University of Iowa’s String Quartet Residency Program Feb. 28 at the Riverside Recital Hall in Iowa City.

The Iowa City Police Department is currently investigating three sexual assaults with adult female victims while they were passengers in taxi cabs.