Fifth and sixth-graders created a tasty ice cream treat this week as part of the week-long Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship camp at the UI, which shapes young minds on how to network, budget, and make a product.

The UI College of Education Belin-Blank Center’s Advanced Leadership Seminar draws some of Iowa's and the Midwest’s top young minds to campus next week. The students will meet with community leaders including UI alumna and women’s sports icon Christine Grant and Iowa City Jazz Festival founder Marc Ginsberg, just to name a few.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason met with reporters Thursday morning in the first of a series of media availabilities planned throughout the academic year.

A 70-year-old mural by iconic American artist Jackson Pollock is being prepped for its Siouxland unveiling; Mural has undergone rejuvenation at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and is on loan from the University of Iowa Museum of Art through the end of March 2015.

The newly-restored Mural by Jackson Pollock, will travel all over the world in the next few years, but Sioux City will be its temporary home from now until April 2015 as part of a state-wide program for sharing the University of Iowa art collection.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and alumni: We’d love to have your help at the UI’s exhibit at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 7-17, in Des Moines. Fair admission, parking passes, and a Hawkeye T-shirt will be provided.

Twenty top high school students from across Iowa will gather on the University of Iowa campus to participate in a two-week intensive summer program July 6-18 where they’ll learn technical and entrepreneurial skills to create their own working apps, which could earn them seed money to fund their own startup technology companies.

Information about flood-related University of Iowa event cancellations or changes.

International Programs (IP) at the UI announces a new partnership for IP’s television and radio series WorldCanvass; Starting in September, WorldCanvass will be held once a month on Tuesday nights at FilmScene, a state-of-the-art theater located on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall.

The University of Iowa Summer Opera will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Patience" at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 10-12, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 13, at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

Recent UI graduate Katie Kuntz knew that three minutes wasn't enough to tell the story of the children of methamphetamine users, so she expanded her journalism class project into a senior thesis documentary, which will premier in Council Bluffs this week.

University of Iowa's Hancher will connect great artists with great audiences with another robust season of events.