A video recording of the fall 2017 UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/University College commencement ceremony is now available for viewing. The ceremony was held Saturday, Dec. 16, at 9 a.m.

Geology majors at the University of Iowa took a three-day excursion to Missouri to examine rocks and past and present geological activity. The for-credit trip is a critical outdoor complement to the terminology and concepts the students, mostly seniors, have been learning in the classroom.

Jennifer Vick, lecturer and Fundraising and Philanthropy Communication Certificate coordinator at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication discusses some of the biggest mistakes people make when donating to a charity during the giving season.

Alumni and current students say they are well prepared to tackle the world of stage management thanks to the University of Iowa MFA program.

For nearly 120 years, Seashore Hall has been a center of academics, medicine, and research at the University of Iowa. Yet, despite its many permutations, the building will be taken down in phases, beginning in December, to make way for a six-story, 64,000-square-foot Psychological and Brain Sciences Building.

University of Iowa professor Daniel Tranel has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

A new collaboration between the UI College of Nursing and the Department of Theatre Arts is helping students from both put classroom theory into practice.

Analisa Iole was introduced as the new Hawkeye Marching Band drum major at the Sept. 23 football game against Penn State, becoming the first woman to hold the role since World War II.

Over the course of 20 years at the UI, Kevin Kastens has had an immense impact on the Hawkeye Marching Band and the UI School of Music: maintaining old traditions while adding new ones; finding the band a permanent practice facility; and developing software to design marching band routines.

In support of its goal to build high-impact neuroscience research, the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI) has awarded its first Accelerator Grants. The four funded proposals represent a mix of foundational, translational, and clinical research. They focus on neuroscience topics that are new or that add value to existing research by branching out in a new direction.

Cornelia Lang, departmental associate chair and associate professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Andrew Forbes, associate professor in the Department of Biology, co-teach the Big Ideas course Origins of the Universe, Earth and Life. Here, they discuss the importance of broad-focused Big Ideas courses.

Even when University of Iowa dance faculty work with students outside the classroom, they still find teaching moments.