A particular group of molecules in the brain's cerebral cortex disrupts how cells bind to each other to form neural circuitry, according to University of Iowa biologists.

The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science will host the 2012 Hawkeye Challenge Programming Competition for high school students from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in MacLean Hall on the UI campus.

Emily Busse may only be a college junior, but her résumé already rivals those of some young professionals. The Daily Iowan's next editor-in-chief has been free to pursue several professional opportunities thanks to the financial relief provided by scholarship money.

Several University of Iowa experts are available to media to share their expertise as President Obama visits campus to talk about college affordability this week.

The University of Iowa is one of two institutions a delegation of Russian educators is visiting for an in-depth look at different facets of higher education, hosted by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.

The Women’s Chorale and Camerata of the University of Iowa School of Music will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The University of Iowa Biological Interests Society (UI BIO) will hold a Plant Sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, on the Kautz Plaza, located on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway between Calvin Hall and the Pappajohn Business Building.

Robert Cargill, University of Iowa assistant professor of classics and religious studies, challenges recent interpretations of markings on the "Jonah ossuary."

The back-story of Mayberry, a play commissioned by Hancher that looks at race relations in Iowa City. Playwright Sean Christopher Lewis is a 2007 graduate of the UI Playwrights Workshop and lives in Iowa City. The soldout show runs April 26-29 at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City.

Ed Callaway of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, Calif., will be the featured speaker at the Sixth Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Kollros Auditorium, Biology Building East on the University of Iowa campus.

Rick Altman, a University of Iowa professor of cinema and comparative literature, discusses the history of "illustrated songs," which introduced pop songs into silent films during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Dane Pratt started out washing dishes and taking out the trash in a research lab in the UI Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Now, he's designing and conducting cutting-edge pain research.