The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Bad Boyz of Double Bass, featuring Volkan Orhon, UI associate professor of double bass, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

In remembrance of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and others associated with the university who lost their lives in combat, the Memorial Honor Roll was dedicated at the Iowa Memorial Union in 1956. Today, the honor roll occupies not only a prominent place in the Hubbard Commons; it also has a new home online.

Are you one to burn the midnight oil? If so, you're invited to join the University of Iowa Rhetoric Writing Center staff for Midnight Madness walk-in tutoring on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 8 p.m. to midnight in 110 English-Philosophy Building. Experienced tutors and teachers will be on hand to assist with personal statements, scholarship essays, proposals, creative writing, and more.

Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, writes of the challenges of hand knitting gifts for family and other loved ones.

Ann Campbell, University of Iowa professor of management sciences, researches how to use transportation logistics to more efficiently deliver relief to disaster zones.

President Sally Mason was among a group of university presidents who discussed higher education policy with White House officials in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Nov. 12.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason was among a group of university presidents who discussed higher education policy with White House officials in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

Archaeologist and professor of religion Robert Cargill was a consulting producer on Bible Secrets Unveiled, a six-part miniseries on the History Channel.

Applications for the John and Elsie Mae Ferentz Undergraduate Fellowships for Research, created by Kirk and Mary Ferentz in honor of Kirk's parents, are due Dec. 2. The Ferentz Fellowships will support College of Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduate students engaged in faculty-mentored research projects in Spring 2014.

Divers installed new flashboards on top of the Iowa River Burlington Street dam earlier this week. The flashboards raise the level of the dam slightly, which provides for a slightly higher water level for the water plant intake. Based on duck behavior, it appears as though the new flashboards make catching dinner just a little bit easier as well.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason was one of six university presidents invited to the White House Tuesday to discuss strategies for helping more academically talented students from low-income families attend college.

UI International Programs' annual photo contest gives the public an opportunity to vicariously relive the adventures of returned study abroad students through compelling images, as well as see the familiar landscapes and scenes of Iowa through the unique perspective of international students. The photo contest is held annually as part of UI’s celebration of International Education Week Nov. 11-15...