Now through Dec. 8, the University of Iowa Museum of Art presents "New Forms: The Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, 1934–1949," located in the Black Box Theater in the Iowa Memorial Union.

The 20 members of the Iowa dance team spend every day with one another in practice, classes, performing at sporting events, and sometimes even at home.

Monday will be a big day in the life of the new—and the old—Hancher facilities. Weather permitting, construction crews working on the new Hancher facility will initiate the project’s single-largest concrete pour around 6 a.m. Monday: 1,400 cubic feet in a single day, to be exact. And around 9 a.m., a wrecking ball will begin dismantling the original Hancher Auditorium.

Results from a survey administered by the UI College of Education's Iowa Testing Programs suggest that interest levels among Iowa students in science, technology, engineering, and math, collectively referred to as STEM, decline steadily between third grade and high school graduation.

Participants are invited to register for the Iowa Regents Institutions 2013 Disability Awareness Summit Thursday, Oct. 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Suite 2520 of the University Capitol Centre in downtown Iowa City. The theme is "Tools for Change."

As the wrecking ball swings at the old Hancher Auditorium and other flooded arts buildings, students, faculty, and staff look forward to reuniting on a newly-constructed arts campus.

Today the overwhelming majority of scientists in Iowa, the United States, and across the world agree that biological evolution explains the diversity of life on our planet.

Brett Van Sloten, a senior offensive tackle from Decorah, spent the last two summers as a UI Foundation intern, attending I-Club meetings all over Iowa to show donors and fans what it’s like to play football and study business management.

The University of Iowa will host the 23rd annual Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, in Hubbard Park on the UI campus, the first time that the festival has been held in the fall as the official kickoff to the 2013 UI Homecoming Week.

Former Congressman Jim Leach, also a visiting professor in the UI College of Law, will present “Bridging Cultures: the Heart of the Fulbright Program” at an upcoming UI event celebrating the legacy of Fulbright programs at the university.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development have established a Humanities Advisory Board to advise them on humanities issues, stimulate collaboration among humanities faculty, leverage resources in support of humanities scholarship, and identify areas of interdisciplinary research.

The University of Iowa conducted a test of its Hawk Alert emergency notification system Wednesday morning. Although some Hawk Alert subscribers received more than one message due to an error, UI Public Safety Director Chuck Green said the technology worked as intended.