A high-energy physics group, led by Yasar Onel and Jane Nachtman at the University of Iowa, has designed and built a sub-detector to better understand what happened immediately after the universe's birth. The Zero Degree Calorimeter measures particles' shower, which mimics hot plasma created right after the Big Bang.

The University of Iowa will honor December 2015 graduates in a series of commencement ceremonies and other events, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 18 and 19.

James Wetzel, a native Iowan and research assistant in physics and astronomy, has been building miniature replicas, to exacting specifications, of the world's most advanced particle detector. The UI physics graduate used a bank of 3-D printers to create models of the Compact Muon Solenoid detector.

Willy Tan, a UI accounting major and bike fanatic from Marshalltown, rides bikes, makes bikes, and is now helping to build a program to share bikes.

A video recording of the winter 2015 UI Undergraduate Ceremony, which includes students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University College, and the Bachelor of Science degree candidates in the Carver College of Medicine, is now available for viewing.

The "Get to Know" series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and outside interests. Today we visit with the College of Education's Rossina Liu, who is also the faculty fellow for the Provost's Office of Outreach and Engagement.

University of Iowa students and faculty are attending the global climate talks this month in Paris. Four students from three colleges and a faculty member in engineering will further their research and report on what they see and learn at the COP 21 meeting.

Over the course of the fall semester, Hawkeye Poll students have worked to master the basic skills of survey design, sampling, and question wording.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present Dance Gala 2015 for one week only, in December this year. Audience members will experience the powerful energy, graceful flight, and electrifying performances led by acclaimed UI faculty.

The University of Iowa School of Music will live stream the Dec. 2 performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra and Choirs, beginning at 7:25 p.m. CST.

You can’t look at Dan Matheson's résumé and not be a little curious—four World Series rings with the New York Yankees, his name on the entry sign at Wrigley Field in Chicago, and an investigator with the NCAA.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pamela Geyer, in biochemistry and obstetrics and gynecology, and Amnon Kohen, in chemistry, will be honored at the AAAS annual meeting in February.