The Operator Performance Laboratory in the UI College of Engineering and the UI REACH program in the UI College of Education are featured on the new Iowa edition of "BTN LiveBIG Iowa" airing Saturday Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. CST.

UI vehicle safety researcher Dan McGehee supports the proposal to upgrade distracted driving to a primary offense because, he says, while things like food and pets can draw your attention away from the road, cell phones do it more often, and for longer amounts of time.

The real-life hero who inspired George Clooney's character in the film The Monuments Men was a UI graduate named George Leslie Stout,“...a no-nonsense Iowa guy who established art conservation,” says Sean O’Harrow, director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Paula Amad, associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, is the 2014 recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovács Award for Outstanding Essay. Her winning composition discusses the "return-of-the-gaze" phenomenon in nonfiction film from the silent cinema period.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Charles D’Ambrosio will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Do any of your New Year’s resolutions involve losing weight or improving your physical fitness? If so, consider signing up for the 10-week Live Healthy Iowa program. liveWELL offers participation incentives to UI faculty and staff.

UI study abroad advisor Sarah McNitt‘s run on the TV quiz show “Jeopardy!” ended Tuesday after six games, but her work has just begun—she plans to leverage a portion of her winnings for a memorial in Iowa to her mother who died in October from leukemia.

This evening, the UI Police will kick-off its first-ever “tweet-along,” beginning at 5 p.m. and including an inside look at the average police officer’s nightly shift.

The University of Iowa Women’s Action and Resource Center is seeking applicants to the Iowa N.E.W. Leadership Program and using the lack of women in the Statehouse as a reminder of the importance of supporting women's leadership development.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra performing "No Place to Go" on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at The Mill in Iowa City. The show is the latest offering in the Club Hancher series of events.

The Universitiy of Iowa IT support community offers security tips, such as maintaining good physical security of your systems, to prevent cybercrime.

The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards help fund innovative applications of instructional technologies that impact student success and retention.