Just like her mom almost 30 years ago, Alexandra Chan is immersed in hands-on research on the University of Iowa campus. Chan is one of nearly 40 high school students from across the nation and globe participating in a rigorous, five-week summer residential research opportunity, the Secondary Student Training Program.

The University of Iowa was one of the first schools to send students to study in Cuba. The UI has been able to send faculty and students to Cuba for the past 15 years or so, says Liz Wildenberg De Hernandez, an associate director of UI Study Abroad.

Music teachers jammed to the sound of Tubano drums Thursday at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City. About 60 K-12 music teachers and others gathered for World Music Drumming workshops on the University of Iowa campus, hosted by the UI College of Education and West Music.

Sure, you can go to the Iowa State Fair and only see an Uncle Pennybags made out of butter, but why stop there? A team of 3D design students from the University of Iowa is hard at work to bring innovative art to the fairgrounds this year.

Nicholas Grossman, who teaches UI courses on Middle East and international relations, has been following the Iran negotiations closely.

University of Iowa civil and environmental engineering professor Jerry Schnoor talks with WGBH about the water crisis, pollution, and how to make sure there's enough water for future generations.

UI assistant professor Daryl Cameron and his research colleagues believe that empathy is only as limited as people choose it to be. "The 'limits' to our empathy are merely apparent, and can change, sometimes drastically, depending on what we want to feel," they write in a recent editorial.

Max Otoadese is one of 39 high school students from across the state, nation, and world pursuing hands-on science at the UI this summer, thanks to the College of Education Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program. The rigorous, five-week residential research program also provides 3 semester hours of college credit.

Students at the Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station plunge into science with a field-based water quality class.

The number of students taking advantage of the University of Iowa's one-of-a-kind Summer Hawk Tuition Grant program has more than tripled this year over last.

The UI will now have a better glimpse of the galaxies, thanks to a group of students who built and commissioned a state-of-the-art telescope in Arizona.

For the first time, the University of Iowa's School of Music is paying cast members of the summer opera.