After 30 years, University of Iowa theatre arts professor and directing program head Eric Forsythe plans to retire at the end of the spring semester. Forsythe sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about his time at Iowa and his final UI play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

The University of Iowa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Resource Center recently marked a decade of serving the community.

In a new University of Iowa project, The Songs of the Holocaust, School of Music professor and soprano Rachel Joselson revives music composed by inmates of Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp that held a particularly high number of artists and musicians.

Matthew Birks, a senior cinematic arts major from DeWitt, Iowa, won big at the Muscatine Independent Film Festival.

Creativity, instruction, and camaraderie—all happening within a state-of-the-art facility. This is what the new Voxman Music Building, home to the University of Iowa School of Music, brings to the university.

Akhil Katyal, professor of English literature at Shiv Nadar University in New Delhi, India, and author of “Night Charge Extra,” speaks about his poetry and his time at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

The University of Iowa’s Dance Gala showcases dynamic choreography and dancing from one of the most highly acclaimed dance programs in the country. “Iowa Now” provides a sneak peek at the stunning creative work on display in Space Place Theater.

Jesse Factor, a second-year MFA dance student at the University of Iowa, will re-stage iconic dancer and choreographer Martha Graham’s “Ritual to the Sun” from “Acts of Light” for the 2016 Dance Gala, running Nov. 3–12 in the UI’s Space Place Theater.

Ukamaka Olisakwe, 34, is a novelist, screenwriter, and short-story author recently named one of Africa’s 39 most promising writers under the age of 40. She is currently participating in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.

Thom Jones, who received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Writers' Workshop in 1970, burst from obscurity to become an idiosyncratic literary sensation. Jones passed away Oct. 14 at the age of 71.

Gregory Howes, associate professor in physics and astronomy, has received an award for his paper published in the journal "Physics of Plasmas." Howes and collaborators were the first group to run supercomputer simulations of the kinetic turbulence in solar wind. He’ll receive the award on Nov. 2.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Yaa Gyasi returns to Iowa City to read from her debut novel, “Homegoing,” which she developed while in the workshop—and which has garnered national praise.