Garth Greenwell, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and resident of Iowa City, is one of five finalists for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his debut novel, “What Belongs to You.”

Mary Cohen, associate professor in the School of Music and the College of Education’s Department of Teaching and Learning, has been awarded the 2016 Citizen Diplomat Award for her nonprofit organization, the Oakdale Prison Choir.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have proposed a new approach to sampling materials with weak or no magnetic fields. The method could help advance research in a host of fields, from computing to MRI machines. The results were published in the journal “Physical Review Letters.”

Many people know that Al Jarreau and Simon Estes are alumni of the University of Iowa, but can you imagine the two luminaries being on the same concert bill? UI archivist David McCartney looks back at the evening they performed on campus.

Iowa KidSight, a partnership between University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and Lions Club volunteers across the state, screens young children for vision issues including farsightedness, nearsightedness, differences in refractive errors, astigmatism, things inside the eye (such as cataracts), and muscle imbalances.

University of Iowa and University of Miami researchers have a identified a compound that may help protect brain cells during a stroke and help the brain heal after the event.

A team of University of Iowa finance majors will represent the state in a national finance research competition.

Janet Weaver, assistant curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives at UI Libraries, was honored by the ACRL for her work on the Migration is Beautiful website, which highlights the contributions of Latinas and Latinos to Iowa history and culture.

Hancher Auditorium will shortly become a visual arts gallery filled with works by the youth of Iowa City, Coralville, Hills, and North Liberty. The Hancher Guild Youth Art Show, held annually until floodwaters destroyed the original Hancher Auditorium in 2008, returns to the University of Iowa campus on March 6.

On Feb. 28, the University of Iowa was one of many institutions nationwide impacted by a cloud-based IT service outage. The disruption affected ICON, Qualtrics, and other resources used by the UI community. Visit the ITS website to learn more about the outage and how the IT team responded.

University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld encourages UI students, faculty, and staff to attend Lincoln Project forum taking place on March 9.

A new job is a sort of homecoming for Hannah Zinger. She will soon be working as a nurse at the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, a place where she received vital care as a child.