Sure, you can go to the Iowa State Fair and only see an Uncle Pennybags made out of butter, but why stop there? A team of 3D design students from the University of Iowa is hard at work to bring innovative art to the fairgrounds this year.

Nicholas Grossman, who teaches UI courses on Middle East and international relations, has been following the Iran negotiations closely.

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.

University of Iowa civil and environmental engineering professor Jerry Schnoor talks with WGBH about the water crisis, pollution, and how to make sure there's enough water for future generations.

UI assistant professor Daryl Cameron and his research colleagues believe that empathy is only as limited as people choose it to be. "The 'limits' to our empathy are merely apparent, and can change, sometimes drastically, depending on what we want to feel," they write in a recent editorial.

Saba Ali, UI College of Education associate professor, speaks with Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about education's role in career placement and preparation as part of an Iowa at Work series.

Dale Wurster, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and experimental therapeutics in the UI College of Pharmacy, was recognized earlier this spring with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University.

Max Otoadese is one of 39 high school students from across the state, nation, and world pursuing hands-on science at the UI this summer, thanks to the College of Education Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program. The rigorous, five-week residential research program also provides 3 semester hours of college credit.

Numerous individuals have made a significant impact on the University of Iowa and have been honored with a facility in their name. The UI Facilities Management website houses a directory of said individuals; visitors can read about the honorees' achievements, view their pictures, and learn more about the buildings.

Students at the Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station plunge into science with a field-based water quality class.

Maya Ramaswamy and Josie Rudolphi, two students in the UI College of Public Health, are conducting a research study involving tea plantation workers in a hill region in South India. Their research goal: to improve production methods and workers' quality of life.

Margaret Walker’s poetry collection "For My People" received top honors in the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1942. UI archivist David McCartney says the work is as timely now as it was then.