As RAGBRAI riders travel across Iowa, from the Missouri to the Mississippi, it’s common for them to see plenty of black and gold. Hawkeye pride often takes center stage, whether displayed on the gear of cyclists or adorned on homes and vehicles along the route.

Educators from three Iowa high schools participate in a two-week professional development institute at the University of Iowa to learn to implement the Engineer Your World curriculum, which engages students in hands-on engineering experiences.

College football training camps start soon and a new study from the University of Iowa suggests that Twitter may have played an important role in how many of the players on the field received their scholarships.

Thanks in part to a new residency program to train students in the intricacies of creating public art, boarded-up windows, concrete walls, and fertilizer bins will become canvases for large-scale art projects in 10 Iowa communities. One city also will welcome a large-scale, solar-powered sculpture to its downtown plaza.

Grants and other funding that support University of Iowa research and scholarship reached an all-time high in FY19, bolstered in part by increased support from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. Total external funding to the UI increased 6%, or $34.8 million, to an unprecedented $588.8 million.

For the 15th straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

The UI is continuing its exploration of a potential public-private partnership (P3) with its utility system, moving forward from the request for qualification stage to the request for proposal stage. The campus community will have two new opportunities to share feedback about the proposal.

Steve Duck, Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair and department chair in rhetoric, has been awarded the Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication by the National Communication Association.

Corinne Peek-Asa, associate dean for research for the University of Iowa College of Public Health and professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, will deliver Iowa’s 37th annual Presidential Lecture on Feb. 16, 2020.

An Iowa study finds that training parents how to improve communication with their children about safe driving reduced the probability of future unsafe driving incidents by as much as 80 percent, especially when combined with onboard vehicle-monitoring technology.

The University of Iowa’s International Programs office produces a series of 10 pre-arrival webinars for incoming students that provide information about being successful at UI and life in Iowa City and the U.S.

Researchers from the University of Iowa and Iowa State University are building joint teams that will work to use gut bacteria to treat chronic diseases, improve weather forecasts for precision agriculture, and produce better vaccines against swine and avian flu.