Cheering the Iowa football team was a common refrain among the thousands who landed in Tampa for Outback Bowl festivities, but telling personal stories about the UI at events throughout the week strengthened the bond between fans and the university they support.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has issued a statement signed by UI President Sally Mason and other APLU leaders opposing a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

A story about Voyager 1 entering interstellar space quotes University of Iowa physics professor Don Gurnett, who says the distance the spacecraft has traveled over his lifetime is mind-boggling but "compared to the vast distances between stars and in the universe, it's just puny."

Colleen Theisen, Outreach and Instruction Librarian in the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa, is featured as part of a series profiling the next generation of special collections librarians and rare book curators.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art will start 2014 with a new direction. On Friday, Jan. 3, from 5-7 p.m., the museum will host its monthly First Friday event at downtown Iowa City's hotelVetro, featuring Emily Martin and her show "New Direction: Rereading Shakespeare."

University of Iowa researcher Randall McEntaffer is one of 102 scientists and engineers named by President Barack Obama as recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

UI professor Randall McEntaffer, who won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, says that the technology he’s working on today could make future NASA missions more affordable and successful toward the goal of observing astronomical objects.

A snow emergency has been declared for Iowa City, effective Monday, Dec. 23 at 8 a.m. through Tuesday, Dec. 24 at 11:59 p.m. If weather conditions warrant, the snow emergency may be extended beyond Tuesday.

On the morning of Dec. 21, the University of Iowa Police received a report from a student that either during the late night of Dec. 20, or the early morning of Dec. 21, the student was sexually assaulted at a residence hall. The student stated she met the suspect through a friend. This case is currently under investigation.

University of Iowa leaders say strategies, policies, and research behind combating the problem of sexual violence continue to evolve and that the university has made significant strides to raise awareness, educate students and employees, centralize and simplify the reporting process, and promptly investigate and alert the public when incidents occur.

The noon hour turned festive Tuesday, Dec. 17, in the John Colloton Pavilion at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as the Faculty-Staff Orchestra performed five pieces, concluding the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s "Messiah."

Catch online coverage of undergraduate, graduate, nursing, and engineering ceremonies Dec. 20-21.