The UI Center for Human Rights announces the opening of its annual Burns H. Weston International Human Rights Essay Prize, which honors the work of UI students and the lifetime work of Professor Burns H. Weston of the College of Law.

University of Iowa Earth Month activities will conclude with a free screening of "Where the Yellowstone Goes," at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 in the Illinois Room of the Iowa Memorial Union.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate in a workshop, Public Engagement in Higher Education, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the UI College of Public Health.

The University of Iowa is one of the 322 most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada, according to The Princeton Review. This is the fourth year in a row that the UI has been listed in the guide.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa Mock Trial (UIMT) team competed at the National Championship Tournament in Washington, D.C., April 12-14.

David Dowling will present “Escaping the Shallows: Deep Reading’s Revival in the Digital Age” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 for the Public Digital Humanities for Lunch series.

Chris Buresh and Casey Panko, a UI Hospitals and Clinics emergency-medicine physician and emergency department nurse respectively, served as team leaders when traveling to Haiti in March along with other Community Health Initiative volunteers, bringing health care to rural villages in Haiti.

As a part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer are available from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 29, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

University of Iowa police say a package reported as suspicious at UI Hospitals and Clinics Monday contained a box of tea, some ginger and a greeting card.

University Counseling Service Director Sam Cochran says the University of Iowa community suffers an average of two to three student suicides annually. To bring the campus and local community together to prevent future student suicides, Cochran is leading the three-year $270,970 grant, “Leveraging Campus-Community Collaborations to Enhance Suicide Prevention at the University of Iowa.”

Intellectual property law is one of the hot growth areas in legal employment, and recent moot court competition victories show the University of Iowa College of Law is becoming an IP attorney machine.