Masks give us permission to explore new ideas or to more bravely enact ways of being that we don’t usually give ourselves permission to pursue. All of the qualities that masks allow and invite also make them a clever tool for exploring social issues—the aim of a new UI theatre production, "Crescendo," this year’s Iowa Partnerships in the Arts project.

UI researchers have found a gene in a soil amoeba that can overcompensate for the specific mutations of a similar gene. In humans, those genetic mutations can often lead to tumor growth. Researchers are now looking for a separate human gene that could overcompensate for mutations in the same way.

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The UI Department of Theatre Arts’ first Mainstage production of the season brings together two Italian theater artists, a former supervisor for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, an experimental jazz music specialist, and an education sociologist in the Iowa Partnership in the Arts production, "Crescendo."

Pulitzer Prize winner and Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson provides insightful responses during a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times Magazine.

As the only institute of its kind in the Midwest, King Sejong Institute at the University of Iowa will bring Korean language and culture to the Iowa City community, beginning Oct. 9 with a public kickoff celebration.

Alyssa Billmeyer of Marion, Iowa, is the first University of Iowa College of Pharmacy student to serve as president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government.

The state of Iowa’s long-standing ties to Hebei Province in China will strengthen with a new American Cultural Center opening in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang next year.

Donna Parsons, a lecturer in the UI School of Music and the Honors Program, invites university and community members down "The Long and Winding Road" of the formative years for young John, Paul, George, and Ringo with “Magical Mythical Tour: In Search of the Beatles,” on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

The University of Iowa Graduate College honors Aaron Buss (psychology) and David Gaebler (mathematics) with the D.C. Spriesterbach Dissertation Prize and Laura Whitmore (molecular and cellular biology) with the Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize.

At a UI conference Monday focused on Iowa’s military veterans, author and U.S. Army sergeant Kayla Williams said she supports expanding the roles of women in combat, particularly in cases where women already serve in “attached” combat units.

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