About 17 Mandarin speaking volunteers have completed more than 60 hours of training to staff an online chat suicide prevention hotline through the Johnson County Crisis Center, with the goal of supporting the growing population of Chinese students at the UI.

Former University of Iowa President Willard “Sandy” Boyd recalls the night in 1959 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave an address, titled “The Future of Integration" on campus: "Not only was the content strong, but the delivery was powerful.”

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present a Gallery Production, "Monopoly," written by Sarah Cho and directed by Ashley Pettit, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Iowa native David Thoreson will open his photographic exhibit at the UI's Old Capitol Museum during a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23. His exhibit, “The Northwest Passage and Oceans Beyond: An Iowan Sails into History,” will be on display Jan. 23 through May 25.

Tonya Peeples, UI professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, was appointed in 2013 as the College of Engineering's first associate dean for diversity and outreach. In that role, she is organizing the college's efforts to attract more women and minorities to engineering.

Visitors to the University of Iowa campus can now enjoy free guest wireless service without having to track down a guest ID to log in, courtesy of a partnership between Information Technology Services (ITS) and AT&T.

In support of President Obama's call to make college more available to low-income students, the University of Iowa has announced a new program targeting first generation students, and with good reason: about one-third of Iowa's students are the first in their families to go to college.

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The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will begin its spring “Movies@MNH” series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, with a free public screening of "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo" in Macbride Auditorium.

Johna Leddy, associate professor of chemistry, explored improving electrochemical systems such as batteries and fuels to make them more efficient energy sources as a Fall 2013 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

More than 100 eighth-graders spent a day at the UI hosted by the College of Education with support from 20 other departments, the culmination of a seven-week long UI program designed to introduce careers in the health sciences to rural Iowa students.