Stuit Hall, hub for the clinical psychology program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology, has earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Leisure studies scholar David Gould comments on the difficulty Americans have finding opportunities to take their vacation time.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Jeremy Kryt reports from Honduras about the impact of drug violence.

Archeologist Bill Whittaker comments on the practice of using dousing rods to "witch" for graves.

The line-up of music and musicians is now complete for MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival June 10-16. The main events are three concerts on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, June 14, 15, and 16.

The summer 2012 schedule of live streams on the University of Iowa www.writinguniversity.org website will begin with June 6-9 readings ranging from new poetry to the dangers of voting technology.

University of Iowa emeritus political scientist Joel Barkan, senior associate with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Program, warns of a Ugandan "oil curse."

From designing superior running shoes to developing a cure for testicular cancer, UI alumni are making their marks across the spectrum.

3D imaging techniques developed by University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues may one day allow researchers and physicians to better understand normal inner ear development as well as inner ear diseases.

Former Hawkeye baseball standout Dusty Napoleon spent this season as the UI baseball team's undergraduate assistant coach while working toward earning a degree.

Faculty member and IWP veteran Roberto Ampuero's new novel—his first in English—is listed among 13 "Great Books on the Horizon."

Margaret Atwood's review of the Clark Blaise short-story collection The Meagre Tarmac involves retracing his personal history, including his time at the University of Iowa as a student in the Writers' Workshop and as director of the International Writing Program.