University Counseling Service Director Sam Cochran says the University of Iowa community suffers an average of two to three student suicides annually. To bring the campus and local community together to prevent future student suicides, Cochran is leading the three-year $270,970 grant, “Leveraging Campus-Community Collaborations to Enhance Suicide Prevention at the University of Iowa.”

You might be able to save a life if you learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide and know how to steer a student exhibiting these signs to appropriate resources for help.

Bennett Sims, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from "A Questionable Shape" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

A song first performed at the University of Iowa in a Hancher performance will be heard on the popular Fox television show "Glee."

After spending spring break in Las Vegas, UI students in a class that focuses on downtown Las Vegas have come up with something they believe will enhance the area as part of David Gould's "Reimagining Downtown" project—a vegan food truck.

Dan Matheson, who spent nine years as an NCAA investigator before joining UI’s faculty as a recreation and sport business lecturer, comments on the release of information about the University of Oregon’s ongoing NCAA infractions case.

The University of Iowa offers a free appointment-based service to students, faculty, and staff who are dealing with elder care issues. Through the service, any student, faculty, or staff member can schedule a complimentary one-hour on-campus appointment with an elder specialist, who can address just about any issue, from living arrangements and transportation to insurance and financial issues.

Kai Yi, research scientist in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, is featured in an article about the new physics and new particles that may await discovery by scientists using the world's most powerful atom smashers.

Greg Howes, UI assistant professor of physics and astronomy, describes the so-called Alfven waves that comprise space turbulence, a key driver of space weather, and how he replicated the waves and studied them in the laboratory.

University of Iowa music professor Mary Adamek and her class have brought music-therapy sessions to people all over the area this semester, ranging all the way from pre-schoolers to dementia patients.

Tyler Priest, a UI associate professor of history and geography, argues for increased offshore drilling while Cindy Zipf, the executive director of Clean Ocean Action Inc., based in Sandy Hook, N.J., makes the case against greater offshore drilling in a Wall Street Journal story.

The University of Iowa hosts a conference this week at which leading regional scholars will talk about the ancient Mediterranean world and its lasting influence on art, architecture, literature, and society. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday.