Researchers at the University of Iowa say it takes more than knowing what reading skills are missing to develop effective intervention plans for struggling middle school readers. Educators also need to know how these students are using the reading skills they already have.

"The Student Experience" showcases University of Iowa students who excel academically—inside and outside the classroom. The first installment features Jenna Ladd, who takes what she has learned in the classroom and applies it to community settings, from school gardening initiatives to sustainable practices that can help others.

Women’s sports pioneer and Title IX advocate Christine Grant (Ph.D. ’74) will discuss “The Politics of Sport” as part of the University of Iowa College of Education’s Distinguished Speaker Series on Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. in N140 Lindquist Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The University of IowaI's selection for 2014 Mom and Dad of the Year are, respectively, Lisa Dowson of Indianola, Iowa, and Jim Hoflen of Elk Horn, Iowa. The parents were nominated by their students and then honored during Family Weekend festivities.

On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Iowa Now sent teams of writers, photographers, and videographers to 15 undergraduate classes across campus to showcase the breadth and strength of the University of Iowa's academic offerings as well as its dynamic faculty and state-of-the-art facilities.

Longtime religious studies professor Jay Holstein helps his students decode the Hebrew Bible with a bit of metaphor, a bit of humor, and a dry erase board drawing of the Sinai Peninsula.

Iowans know a thing or two about slicing into pork, but they’re not always taking a scalpel to a preserved fetal pig. That’s exactly what students in a biology lab do as they get a closer look at the organs that keep pigs—and humans—running.

With exams coming up, Professor Shaun Vecera asks several hundred students assembled before him, “Wouldn’t it be great if you had perfect recall and didn’t have to study (or even write down) lecture notes to get an A on the test?” Well, he later points out, not really.

Ink is applied to etched plates, paper lays in wait in a pool of water, ink is pressed into grooves, excess ink is scraped off, and the plate and paper become fast friends under the heavy wheel of the press.

As this session of Introduction to Afro-Cuban Dance progresses beyond warm-ups, the students run through a routine with energy and intensity, crisscrossing the studio floor, limbs moving to and fro, faces expressing concentration and joy.

Teaching students how to analyze segments of the acclaimed HBO television series "The Wire" helps them understand the deliberate techniques the show’s producers and editors use to make the show a social commentary, commercial, and aesthetic force.

When Tyler Stercula walks into class, he's not expecting to hold a candle to a hydrogen-filled balloon and ignite a giant fireball in front of his startled classmates—but that's what he does, with four different gases. This is how Professor Robert Mutel likes to teach General Astronomy.