Raghuraman Mudumbai's research examines the reliability of the United States' electric grid, particularly given the growth of wind turbines and other new energy sources.

With a new novel just out, alumnus Charles Holdefer returns from France to teach in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

Former Hawkeye athlete Diane Nukuri-Johnson will be competing in the marathon for her home country of Burundi at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. A passion for running has led her away from civil strife in her homeland to a college education and a promising profession.

UI Professor Glenn Storey is collaborating with European archeologists on excavations at a Benedictine Abbey in Italy (in Italiano).

Alumna Cathryn Sloane set off a social media firestorm recently by saying that nobody over the age of 25 should be doing social media as a profession.

Pigeons with iPads, olfactory functions and Alzheimer’s disease, smoking behaviors of stroke patients, and Ralph Ellison and The New York Times are all areas of research being pursued by students involved in the Summer Research Opportunities Program and the McNair Scholars program (SROP/McNair Scholars) through the University of Iowa Graduate College.

Women with ovarian cancer may have somewhat better survival odds when they feel emotionally supported by family and friends, a new study led by University of Iowa psychology professor Susan Lutgendorf suggests.

University of Iowa and University of Iowa Health Care units will participate in the Johnson County Fair this week, Monday through Thursday, July 23-26. Both booths will be in Building C at the Johnson County Fairgrounds.

University of Iowa professor emerita Alicia Brown accomplished a great deal throughout her career in dance. Now her art dances not on a stage but rather on paper in the form of dynamic, abstract collages.

Review of Ann Bauer's new novel begins with a remembrance of her time at the University of Iowa. Subscription required.

The film of Cutting for Stone by University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Abraham Verghese will be directed by Oscar winner Susanne Beir.

University of Iowa psychology alumna Ashley Mori, a mental-health therapist, is profiled.