Nancy Kraft watched the rain fall in May 2008 and felt a sense of foreboding. In the end, she and a chain of volunteers had to move books from the UI Main Library's basement to avoid the rising waters of the flooding Iowa River.

The University of Iowa Libraries has launched Shakespeare at Iowa, a special exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio and a statewide celebration to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the University of Iowa will celebrate his life and work with events headlined by the "First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare" exhibition, which will be on display in the UI Main Library Gallery from Aug. 29 through Sept. 25.

In the wake of the 2008 flooding of the Iowa River, Kayt Conrad and her team had to scramble to find new facilities that could accommodate Division of Performing Arts students and faculty. But first, they had to save the pianos.

Eight years after the flood, Bill Dawkins returns to the new Hancher Auditorium, where he is once again helping to keep the iconic performing arts venue in fine form.

Former University of Iowa gymnast Houry Gebeshian appears to be living in a Hollywood screenplay. Her life resembles a gymnastics version of the 1993 cult football classic Rudy, complete with training montages, unlikely mentors, against-the-odds triumph, and lasting glory.

Haley Kaplan, a first-year teacher and 2016 UI College of Education graduate in elementary education, had a perfectly organized classroom to welcome her fourth graders to Jefferson Elementary School in Bettendorf, encouraging them to do their best and be school leaders.

University of Iowa administrators hope to increase participation in an employee workshop series about supporting diversity on campus. Faculty and staff can now register for classes in this year's Building University of Iowa Leadership for Diversity (BUILD) certificate program.

The Iowa Electronic Markets asks people to put their money on an election outcome, so participants say who think they will win, not who they want to win.

Priceline.com founder Jeff Hoffman will discuss entrepreneurialism and starting your own business at the UI on Sept. 13 during the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's EntreDays event

Abundant corn and low oil prices are among the reasons for the recently announced layoffs at Deere & Co., says John Solow, professor of economics in the Tippie College of Business.

Rural patients with heart disease often have limited access to specialized care because most cardiologists practice in cities, but a new study from the University of Iowa finds that the use of visiting consultant clinics (VCCs) in rural hospitals staffed by traveling cardiologists greatly increases access to care.