University of Iowa Facilities Management has canceled a series of short steam blows along Hawkins Drive, just north of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, that were originally scheduled to start at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, August 27, and were to end by noon the same day.

Friday night’s On Iowa! kickoff event at Kinnick Stadium will mean increased pedestrian traffic in the area surrounding the stadium and UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Media representatives and first-year students are invited to tour the new Learning Commons spaces in the University of Iowa Main Library, including group study rooms, Food for Thought Café, open study spaces, and TILE classroom, starting at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 25.

2013 Pella High School graduate Lucas Rietveld found his special niche at the UI College of Education's REACH Program, a two-year, transition certificate program for students with multiple intellectual, cognitive, and learning disabilities.

When the new academic year begins Monday, Aug. 26, the University of Iowa will open the new Learning Commons in the Main Library, a tech-infused, 24-hour, comfortable study space and one-stop academic help center…with good coffee.

The University of Iowa Children's Hospital is seeking entries from artists living in Iowa and surrounding states whose work may be considered for purchase for the new UI Children’s Hospital.

In just three years, the On Iowa! program has become a University of Iowa campus tradition, bringing together some 4,500 students, hundreds of faculty and staff, and others throughout the UI community. This year, program goes even bigger.

The Old Capitol Museum, in conjunction with the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History and Museum of Art, will host a fall exhibit, “Cultures in Clay: Puebloan Vessels at the University of Iowa," opening Thursday, Aug. 29.

Jackyln Even, a UI senior sociology student, says discrimination has been an issue for her, despite having played video games since childhood, in a story on women fighting back on video game misogyny.

Whether they are searched to help settle an argument, to research a historical or genealogical question, or to simply satisfy idle curiosity, the online collections of the Hawkeye yearbook and The Daily Iowan are a fun resource for anyone with an interest in Iowa’s past.

The university-run Hawkeye Court Apartments have provided an affordable housing option for students since 1968, but the buildings in the complex are past their prime and will all be demolished by 2014. The units are simple, convenient, and cheap—but for many former residents, they meant much more.

Did you spend countless hours on the Pentacrest cramming for exams? Propose to your wife on the IMU footbridge? Catch sunsets from the steps of Old Cap? Iowa Now wants to know: what are your favorite campus spots, and why?