The University of Iowa College of Public Health is recognizing four leaders whose contributions across a range of disciplines are helping to promote better health and prevent disease throughout the state of Iowa. The award recipients were nominated by their peers in the Iowa public health practice community.

Chris Thile, who will perform music from his 2013 recording 'Bach Sonatas & Partitas Vol. 1,' has played a vibrant part in multiple genres for nearly three decades.

A powerhouse pianist, a vocal jazz diva, and a gifted saxophone prodigy come together to pay homage to three legends in a Club Hancher at The Mill performance.

Karen Villeda, a poet from Mexico who published her first book as a teenager, is this year's Outreach Fellow for UI's International Writing Program. She has earned several awards, including the 2014 National Fine Arts Prize for Children’s Fiction and the 2013 Elías Nandino National Award for Youth Poetry.

The University of Iowa is one of many colleges across the country working hard to address the serious public health issue of high-risk drinking. On Oct. 18-24, the UI will join other institutions in recognizing National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, sponsoring several events designed to shed light on the problem.

High school students studied criminology, worked on cars, and practiced machinery skills as community leaders celebrated the grand opening of the Kirkwood Regional Center at the UI Thursday. The center is a partnership between Kirkwood Community College, the UI , Grant Wood Area Education Agency, and several K-12 school districts.

Kirkwood’s name may get top billing on the sign in front of the community college’s fourth regional center, which formally opened with great fanfare Thursday, but beating in the heart of the 100,000-square-foot building is a strong University of Iowa presence.

This fall, UI students are discovering the charms of an aged knight-errant, his earthy sidekick, and a cast of colorful characters. Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez and Denise Filios, professors in Spanish and Portuguese, are co-directing the Obermann–International Programs Humanities Symposium, “Parody, Plagiarism, Patrimony: Don Quixote in the Age of Electronic Reproduction.”

"American Idiot," the punk musical featuring the music of Green Day that chronicles the journey of three young men as they search for meaning in a hypocritical world, will open the UI Theatre Mainstage season Oct. 16.

The Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival was held for the 25th—and final—time on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015.

The University of Iowa celebrated its third annual "We Are Phil" giving appeal for faculty and staff last week—and the push to bolster private support for UI people and programs continues.

Homeira Qaderi, a writer from Afghanistan who has exposed the Taliban's inhumane treatment of women, is a resident in the UI's International Writing Program. Despite threats and challenges, she remains steadfast in her cause to improve the lives of women under Taliban rule.