When the RAGBRAI pass-through towns are announced, faculty advisor and JPEC lecturer Bob Walker and his students offer them promotional assistance. They've done so for four years in a row, and this year are working with eight towns, including Templeton.

For five years, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital has been sharing its message about bicycle safety across the state during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), along with delivering medical care for cyclists along the route.

Thirteen current and former UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital patients have been selected to represent the hospital as Kid Captains during the Iowa Hawkeyes’ 2018 football season.

The Old Capitol Futures tennis tournament, a U.S. Tennis Association Pro Circuit event, takes place through July 22 at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex. The first professional tennis tournament to take place in Iowa since 1986, the event was organized by Sport and Recreation Management program students.

An estimated 12,000 RAGBRAI riders will be in Iowa City Friday, July 27, for an overnight stop. The University of Iowa community is asked to help safely welcome riders and visitors to our campus from across the country and around the world.

Grant from the United States-India Educational Foundation will fund research to solve water issues in India

The University of Iowa had another strong year for projects that will benefit Iowans, the country, and world thanks to an increase in federal funding for research and the number of proposals, grants, and contracts awarded in fiscal year 2018.

UI President J. Bruce Harreld has named Liz Tovar, associate athletics director for Student-Athlete Academic Services, and Claire F. Fox, professor and chair in the Department of English, to co-chair the search committee tasked with selecting the next chief diversity officer.

UI faculty and students have designed a web-based game that can be played by anyone with a smartphone and a Fitbit.

UI State Hygienic Laboratory Director Michael Pentella and Director Emeritus Christopher Atchison have received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.

So many serious writers are now fixing their sights on television that the University of Iowa, home of the venerable Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a postgraduate TV-writing fellowship and will begin a workshop focused on the specialization this fall.

After back-to-back state budget cuts by the Iowa Legislature, the University of Iowa will close several centers and eliminate more than 30 positions not directly tied to student instruction.