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.

Members of the both the Linn Street and New Horizons bands come together for a special performance Wednesday, July 24, under the direction of Jerry Zinn, retired ICCSD band director and Erin Wehr, UI visiting assistant professor of music education.

It’s hard to imagine spending the better part of a day shuffling through long lines on campus to sign up for classes, but that’s what every student at Iowa had to do until 1978, when a computerized registration system expedited the process.

Benjamin Hunnicutt, professor of leisure studies, talks about why, as we become more efficient producers, we work more hours rather than fewer. This is an audio file.

The University of Iowa topped $400 million in external research funding for the fifth consecutive year, through gains in corporate, industry, and philanthropic funding that helped offset cutbacks in federal research funding amid tight budgets and the government-mandated sequestration. Total share of external funding for fiscal 2013 was $424 million.

The University of Iowa Summer Opera will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Iolanthe," a magical and hilarious operetta full of brilliantly witty dialogue and soaring melodies, complete with orchestra and some fantastical special effects. Performances will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

Guy Cook, the new president of the Iowa State Bar Association, is a University of Iowa graduate who's studied art, political science, and philosophy.

The UI Department of Theatre Arts is staging performances of "No Fish in the House" in numerous Iowa communities throughout July. Director Paul Kalina, assistant professor in the theatre arts department, spent some time before the July 7 performance at Brucemore in Cedar Rapids talking about the play and the importance of taking the show on the road.

Futurists once predicted that Americans would someday work only 12 or 15 hours a week. University of Iowa historian Benjamin Hunnicutt calls those predictions the forgotten American dream.

Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will be awarded a 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama in a ceremony Wednesday, July 10, at the White House.