The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 5,200 degrees at the close of the 2013 spring session.

Thirty-one of the country's and the world’s brightest high school students performed six weeks of hands-on scientific research as part of the University of Iowa's Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP). Students will present their findings in a poster session from 10 a.m. to noon this Friday, July 26.

Kembrew McLeod, UI associate professor of communication studies, says that people have always written on walls, and that graffiti, in its most basic form, can be traced to ancient times in a story on the art of expressive vandalism.

UI students Jerid Schumacher, Jake Thomas, Taylor Grote, and Levi Maxfield hosted a launch party in April for their online clothing store, Widespread Threads, based in Iowa City. The start-up company gives a T-shirt to a child in need for each one it sells.

The second annual Get Ready Iowa workshop will take place this Wednesday, July 24, in the Lindquist Center Jones Commons on the University of Iowa campus.

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The Surf Ballroom and the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed are Iowa's most significant links to rock and roll history.

UI faculty members Claire Fox and Omar Valerio-Jiménez led the 2013 Obermann Summer Seminar, gathering 14 distinguished scholars in Latino/a Studies to the University of Iowa, who helped create the anthology and web platform, The Latino Midwest Reader.

Author Elin Hilderbrand, who is promoting her new book Beautiful Day, attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, which she says has the best program in the country for creative writing.

Linda Kerber, UI professor emeritus of history, comments on the all-female jury in the Zimmerman verdict, saying that opinions of women jurors tending to be emotional in their decision making are folklore and was rationale used for decades to prevent women from being jurors.

University of Iowa student leaders met recently with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds to discuss college affordability and job opportunities for Iowa students.

College affordability and workforce development for graduates who want to stay in Iowa are the top issues University of Iowa student leaders want to focus on this year.