Carroll native and Des Moines resident Steve Bernholtz is the kind of guy you want on your side, a chemical detective who looks for things in water and soil that you probably don’t want in there.

University of Iowa, Kirkwood Community College, and Grant Wood Area Education Agency officials broke ground Friday afternoon for a 100,000-square-foot STEM education center slated to open in the UI Research Park in Coralville by fall 2015.

The JACK Quartet, current residents of the UI String Quartet Residency Program, spent much of this week with composition and string students in the School of Music. A week of mentoring and developing students' work will culminate with the JACK performing UI student compositions Friday, Oct. 11, in Riverside Recital Hall.

Administrators from a top Russian university have been visiting the University of Iowa this week to learn about best practices at an American major research university.

Leaders of Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa are ready to break ground on a new education center aimed at preparing students for careers in STEM fields.

A former University of Iowa professor with unexpected ties to the assassination of John F. Kennedy found refuge from history in Iowa.

Ted Anton will talk about great science and nature writing jobs at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

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

In the movie "12 Years A Slave," a slave sues his captors who kidnap him into slavery. UI law professor Lea VanderVelde has studied hundreds of similar cases where slaves have sued their masters for their freedom, and will publish their stories in a new book this spring.

The University of Iowa Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development will celebrate 470 outstanding fourth through 12th grade students and the teachers who inspired them at its annual recognition ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge.

The Iowa City VA Health Care System and the University of Iowa have collaborated on a project to improve veterans' access to VA mental health care and awareness of UI resources available to veterans on campus.

For several years University of Iowa faculty and students have helped advance the theory that eventually led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, for which the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this week.