The University of Iowa Division of Student Life's 2012 Annual Report highlights how the division fosters student success by creating and promoting educationally purposeful services and activities within and beyond the classroom.

Mary Cohen, a UI music education professor with appointments in both the Colleges of Education and Liberal Arts and Sciences, unites prisoners and volunteers through the Oakdale Community Choir. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

University of Iowa Executive Vice President and Provost P. Barry Butler has appointed Nicholas Colangelo as interim dean of the College of Education, effective Dec. 15.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa recently approved an expansion to UI Hospitals and Clinic’s Labor and Delivery Unit, one that nurse manager Amy Sanborn said will improve efficiency. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

This year's events honoring Martin Luther King Jr's legacy include a talk by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson and a reading of Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop."

University of Iowa Mock Trial sent three teams to St. Paul, Minn. Dec. 1-2 to compete at Macalester College. It also sent one team to New Haven, Conn. to compete at Yale University.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason has selected Tom Rocklin, vice president for student life, and Richard Fumerton, a professor of philosophy and past president of the Faculty Senate, to chair a committee to search for a new vice president for strategic communication.

The University of Iowa has become the nation's first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its admission application.

"Iowa Now" will publish on a lighter schedule over Spring Break March 18-22.

Once again, the University of Iowa W-2 forms will be available on the Human Resources Self Service website at hris.uiowa.edu/selfservice.

Tim Hagle, University of Iowa associate professor of political science, comments on right-to-work laws. Michigan recently became the 24th right-to-work state in the country. Iowa has had right-to-work status for 65 years.