The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with regulatory research support specialist Jessica McConnell.

Barbara Eckstein, a fall 2012 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence, discusses her interdisciplinary work in a Q & A on the early phases of her extensive research study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin as well as a digital, participatory People's Weather Map she is helping to build.

The complete work of one of the University of Iowa’s famous alumni has found its home in the University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives.

University of Iowa Police will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.

Teachers from more than seven Iowa communities are converging on Iowa City this weekend to participate in a three-day Interdisciplinary Flood Institute organized by the University of Iowa College of Education as part of a larger initiative, the Living with Floods project.

Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D., as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.

Lee Seedorff, the senior associate director of the University of Iowa's International Student and Scholar Services in UI International Programs shares how she and her colleagues communicate with the more than 3,500 international students and scholars even before they arrive on campus.

The Iowa Print Fair, featuring six art dealers from across the nation and fine art prints from the 17th century to the present, will be held in the University of Iowa Studio Arts Building lobby from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art First Friday reception, 5-7 p.m. Dec. 7, at hotelVetro. For $5, enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres, a showcase of UI student work, an exclusive UIMA pop-up store, and toe-tapping tunes.

UI officials say that the university has made significant strides in both recruiting and retaining students across a broad spectrum of diversity. This includes students of different ethnicities, international students, student veterans, LGBT students, students with disabilities, and first-generation students.

Take a look back at events and happenings big and small at the University of Iowa.

Three University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded the distinction of 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.