The University of Iowa campus will be full of activities next week when UI Homecoming 2013 festivities begin on Sunday, Sept. 29. This year's theme is "Countless Hawkeyes, One Spirit."

UI student Meghan Ryan will share her Irish heritage and culture through her performance with the Champagne Academy of Irish Dance at the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival this Sunday, Sept. 29, held for the first time in Hubbard Park and as the kickoff to Homecoming 2013.

Johnny Appleseed isn’t just a symbolic folk hero. He was a real pioneer apple farmer named John Chapman whose dream was to produce so many apples no one would ever go hungry. The UI has its own folk hero. His name is Andy Dahl, and he is an arborist.

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History will host “Advancing the Iowa Idea: A Program Celebrating the Beginning of Construction,” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in 240 Art Building West on the UI campus. The program will recognize individuals who have contributed to the design and planning for the new Visual Arts Building.

A new study by University of Iowa law professor Robert Miller says inefficient overpricing in the mergers and acquisition market can actually be perfectly rational from the point of view of the company that's overpaying.

The University of Iowa law school will host a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of a landmark legal ruling that guaranteed low-income criminal defendants the right to legal representation.

Former Congressman Jim Leach comes home to the University of Iowa and joins the UI faculty to teach the next generation.

In advance of the 2013-14 University of Iowa Theatre Mainstage season's opening production, "Water by the Spoonful," dramaturg Madison Colquette speaks with the playwright and the UI performance's director about the captivating stories found within this Pulitzer-winning work for the stage.

Not everyone is born with the best attributes for dance, but everyone should dance, according to George de la Pena. The benefits of encouraging simple movement as a form of physical health is part of the curriculum in the University of Iowa’s Department of Dance.

“Fifty Years of Gideon,” a conference at the UI College of Law, will look at how the right to legal assistance has evolved since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision that guaranteed the right to criminal defense counsel even to those who could not afford it.

Crane operators first struck the north face of old Hancher shortly after 9 a.m., and they continued to strike various parts of the roof during the morning, marking the first exterior impact after months of inside demolition.

Watch the iconic and beloved Hancher Auditorium come down Monday, Sept. 23, through both still images and video, making way for a new state-of-the art Hancher in the future.