UI alumna Natalie Niemeyer, who received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Iowa education licensure, recently received a national Rising Star Award from the Journalism Education Association for her work as a journalism education advisor at East High School in Des Moines.

University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle explains why this year's elections for statewide office in Iowa attracted so few well-known names.

University of Iowa professor David Gould is leading a group of Harvard MBA students on a spring break field trip to Las Vegas, helping them develop plans that will help redevelop the city's faded downtown.

UI business professor Kang Zhao and graduate student Xi Wang have developed an online dating algorithm that works by tracking a person's past online contact activity, instead of by what they say they're interested in.

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University of Iowa faculty, students, and alumni are presenting “Exuberant Politics,” an international exhibition exploring how today’s artists address social issues, in two eastern Iowa locations: Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids and the new Public Space One at 120 N. Dubuque St. in Iowa City.

UI Art History Professor Christopher Roy partnered with UI Museum of Art curator Catherine Hale to create the “Art and Life in Africa” site, to accompany an exhibit on display at the IMU's Black Box Theatre through June 15.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Robert Hass, former U.S. poet laureate and University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

UI biology researcher Andrew Forbes and his colleagues studied fly and wasp species on plants in a Chilean rainforest and found more species than biological theory would have predicted because specialized interactions between species allow a larger, more diverse number of species to live in the same place.

The University of Iowa will host the National 2015 Debate Tournament Championship, following a unanimous vote by the National Debate Tournament (NDT) Committee to accept the UI’s bid. This will be the first time the UI has hosted the NDT since its 1947 inception.

Learning lines, changing costumes, hitting the mark, taking a bow. The life of a Mainstage performer can be hectic, certainly during a production's premiere week. That's all on top of the scholarly and social aspects of being a college student. Sophomore Molly Brown, performing in "Absurd Person Singular," allowed Iowa Now a peek at her routine.