UI researchers hope new avenues of study about why children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder have more accidents while crossing the street on their bicycles will help parents teach their children to better navigate busy intersections.

The Oakdale Community Choir shared joy, hope, and music during its recent "Community of Caring" concert. Mary Cohen, choir founder and director, is a UI associate professor of music education. The goal is for participants to learn from each other and to empower inmates to gain skills for re-entering society.

UI alumnus and Pulitzer winner David Lang, recently nominated for a Golden Globe, talks about how a rainy day set him on the path toward music composition, how he became involved with the "Requiem for a Dream" score, and how far one should go to pursue an artistic curiosity.

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.