Many UI international students are looking to seeing their families for the first time since the summer when they travel home or their family members visit the U.S. during the upcoming winter break.

The University of Iowa is co-sponsoring a symposium in Des Moines from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time today (Wednesday, Dec. 11) titled "Adapting to Weather Extremes: the Economic Impact in Iowa."

In a first-of-its-kind activity involving an interplanetary spacecraft, thousands of amateur (ham) radio operators around the world said “Hi” to NASA’s Juno spacecraft Oct. 9 as it swung past Earth on its way to Jupiter.

Construction season is in full swing at the University of Iowa this fall, at a pace and scale unprecedented in the school’s 166-year history.

Former University of Iowa student Jimmy Centers has risen through the ranks of Iowa politics through a combination of passion and education, and will take over as communications director for Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday.

A University of Iowa librarian uses social media to lift the “veil of secrecy” around Special Collections.

The University of Iowa football team is receiving votes in both of the national polls. However, the Iowa Hawkeyes are firmly entrenched in the Top 25 that ranks teams that will be bowling later this month by their most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate score.

According to a new UI study, Netflix and Amazon have much to teach online dating sites; sites need to start ignoring what people put in their online profiles and use stealthy algorithmic logic to figure out ideal matches—matches that online daters may have never pursued on their own.

Members of the media are invited to cover two second-grade classes led by their University of Iowa College of Education alumnae teachers who will visit the UI to tour campus and participate in a culminating activity with students in the UI College of Education Wednesday Dec. 11 and Friday, Dec. 13.

UI officials have been working for years to enhance the educational experience for veterans—debuting veteran-specific classes, working with department heads to translate military training into course credits, and offering support groups and events for service members.

As many around the world mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela at age 95, UI law professor Adrien Wing says that her work on developing a democratic constitution while Mandela was still imprisoned in 1988 may have been about hope and not necessarily immediate action.

With the help of a nonprofit organization, Bridges to Prosperity, a UI student group designs and builds pedestrian bridges in remote areas where most transportation is by foot and where swollen rivers cut residents off from work, school, health care, and markets in which to trade their goods.