Article celebrates the birthday of the original Nancy Drew author, UI alumna Mildred Wirt Benson.

Iowa poets Blueberry Morningsnow and Melissa Dickey will read from their work at 7 p.m. Monday, July 23, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream through the Writing University website.

The Iowa Summer Rep festival of “Chills and Thrills” mysteries will present a staged reading of "Trouble is My Business" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, in Theatre B of the University of Iowa Theatre Building.

To celebrate NASA’s 50th anniversary, the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, will host a three-month exhibit of NASA-commissioned art, "NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration," and a companion display of spaceflight instruments and models designed and built at the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy.

UI communication studies prof Kembrew McLeod says an artist's digital appropriation of the portraitist's images constitutes fair use.

Some 3,900 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's List for the 2012 spring semester.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Nathan Englander is the winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The 25,000 euro prize is one of the richest and most prestigious prizes for short story writing. Another of the finalists was International Writing Program alumnus Etgar Keret.

Historian Marshall Poe, editor of the New Books Network, writes about the prospects for university presses.

Enjoy an evening of song, expert insights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the world of Gilbert and Sullivan at a free University of Iowa Alumni Association event featuring UI faculty, staff, and students.

Theatre arts faculty member Eric Forsythe, artistic director of the current Iowa Summer Rep season of "Thrills and Chills" mysteries, once learned how truly dangerous theater can be when he became the prime suspect in a criminal investigation.

A University of Iowa team is giving new meaning to the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Developers at the University of Iowa's Digital Studio for the Humanities created aidsquilttouch.org. It allows visitors to located loved ones on the massive quilt.

University of Iowa and state media experts hope a recent trip to the Middle East will strengthen relations with educational institutions in Turkey—a country they say is not so different from our own.