The University of Iowa is set to host experts and researchers from around the world as part of the 2015 Provost’s Global Forum, “The Arab Spring in a Global Context.”

For more than 40 years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Iowa New Play Festival 2015 will take place at the UI Theatre Building May 4-9.

Six University of Iowa students earned National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2015-16 academic year.

Following are highlights from the Iowa Board of Regents meeting Thursday, April 23, at the School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs.

There’s no other day during the school year when philanthropy is more visible on the University of Iowa campus than on Phil’s Day, Thursday, April 30. The fourth annual Phil's Day marks—literally—the impact of private gifts on UI facilities, programs, and people.

This week on Iowa Now Minute features The Bachelor, a shark, and a top 10 draft pick.

University of Iowa junior softball player Haley Hansel is a Big Ten student-athlete, but that's not her only big role.

Students of all majors can benefit from the university’s top-ranked writing programs by completing an Undergraduate Certificate in Writing, which is offered through the Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

By tending to nearly half an acre on the west side of campus, the co-presidents of the UI Student Garden have learned to grow a variety of vegetable, herbs, and flowers. But they also have picked up valuable job skills, fine-tuned their career aspirations, 
and gained personal insight.

Baroque music scholars, performers, and aficionados will have their eyes on the UI Thursday, April 23, when the UI presents a free concert as part of a four-day conference and festival that is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Department of Classics and School of Music.

The impact of a family friend's death from Huntington disease led McKenzie Wallace to later study the disease at the University of Iowa. Wallace jumped into research early in her undergraduate career, and has also branched off into maternal health.

Caring about people and the planet has earned University of Iowa junior Jeffrey Ding two national recognitions—2015 Truman and Udall Scholarships. Ding, who is pursuing majors in economics, political science, and Chinese, will intern this summer with the U.S. Department of State.