Members of the campus community are invited to help with You@UI Academic and Student Life Open House on Oct. 3. The University of Iowa campus will be bustling with 3,000 prospective students and parents.

The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., in Iowa City.

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Angela Flournoy, Karen Bender, and T. Geronimo Johnson are among the authors on the National Book Awards longlist for fiction.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Brandon Paulson, adviser with International Student and Scholar Services.

So far, a new program offered by the UI Chief Diversity Office designed to help faculty and staff strengthen diversity and inclusion has received a great deal of interest. The BUILD (Building University of Iowa Leadership for Diversity) initiative, a non-credit bearing certificate opportunity, started offering classes this fall.

Researchers in the University of Iowa Pappajohn Biomedical Institute have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue advancing gene therapy to treat and prevent cystic fibrosis, a life-shortening, lethal lung disease.

As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across academic and business cases.

The student union, identified by many as the hub of campus, has been pieced together over its 90-year existence. How much do you know about its evolution?

Amrita Nain, assistant professor of finance in the Tippie College of Business, explains why it's so important for Des Moines' economy that it retains the Meredith headquarters after the media company's merger with MediaGeneral.

Finding the best literacy resources for children in Iowa has just gotten a lot easier thanks to the Iowa Reading Research Center. The center, which recently found a new home at the University of Iowa, offers creative and fun ideas such as playing Sight Word Hopscotch or Beat the Clock.

Starting Tuesday, Sept. 15, the University of Iowa community will notice bold new posters around campus highlighting the connection between drinking and sexual assault. The Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) is rolling out its fall prevention campaign, “My Cup Is Not My Consent.”

The official numbers are in, and the University of Iowa’s class of 2019 is the largest, most academically accomplished, and most diverse undergraduate class in university history. Our real goal, of course, isn’t to admit more students, but to see every student succeed.