The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has announced its 2014-15 Mainstage Season, a run that will feature one of the Western world's greatest comedies, a piece inspired by a work by Hans Christian Andersen, and a party incident gone wrong in the modern age of social networks and viral content.

UI researchers have now discovered that the same part of the brain responsible for remembering names and landmarks, the left temporal lobe, also deals with music.

The Iowa Review, edited by faculty, students, and staff from the renowned writing and literature programs at the University of Iowa, has a new look to its online presence. Check out selections from the latest issue, numerous blog entries, and visit the web store.

Researchers at the University of Iowa say that damage to a region of the brain, the left temporal pole, may be associated with difficulty recalling auditory stimuli, such as the title to a song. The finding supports the theory that the left temporal pole is important for naming unique items, from landmarks to song names. Results published in the journal Neuropsychology.

Amanda Bartlett, a UI freshman majoring in journalism and mass communication from Pleasant Hill, Iowa, shares her experiences in the summer study abroad program, Crime and Justice in Britain, where she is gaining insight into America’s criminal justice system by studying its British roots.

University of Iowa researchers show that the hippocampus is involved in language processing, possibly providing additional insight into how to treat people with Alzheimer’s disease. Results appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

From penning award-winning television scripts to developing alternative energy solutions for third-world countries, UI alumni are making their marks across the spectrum.

Experience the sights and sounds from the Hancher construction site as artists perform during a break for construction workers with a performance that will be a part of the new facility in the fall of 2016.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

"The Antinomies of Realism," written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso, is the winner of the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $30,000 award—the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism—is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Libby Glaser, who graduated from the UI this month with a Bachelor of Arts in communications studies and entrepreneurial management, has joined the Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation staff in Spencer as the new communications and events coordinator.

The University of Iowa has named 30 teaching assistants the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for 2013-14. Winners receive a certificate of achievement and $1,000. They were honored at an award reception on Wednesday, May 7.