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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.

Iowa will not be immune from a projected nationwide nursing shortage: “About 42 percent of nurses in Iowa are 50 years old or older,” said Rita Frantz, UI College of Nursing dean, “so there will be an exodus in the next 10 years or so” as the state’s nurses retire.

By harnessing Earth's gravity, NASA's Juno spacecraft will exceed the 165,000 mph needed to reach Jupiter: "This is called a slingshot maneuver or gravity assist; it uses Earth's orbital motion to accelerate the spacecraft toward Jupiter," said UI astrophysicist Bill Kurth.

A delegation of 10 central administrators from an elite Russian university is visiting the University of Iowa with a major goal. The distinguished group has been charged by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to become a top-100 international research university by 2020.

Author and investigative journalist Tracie McMillan will visit the University of Iowa on Wednesday, Oct. 16 to lead a discussion and read from her book "The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table."

The University of Iowa will host the 2013 World Food Prize Laureates for a public lecture at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Old Capitol.

University of Iowa Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation marks its centennial with a celebration in Iowa City Oct. 10-13.

As the 50th anniversary of the civil rights "Freedom Summer" approaches, the University of Iowa Alumni Association pays tribute to Iowans who risked their lives to help end discrimination.