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

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.

The University of Iowa has been recognized by the Iowa governor's office for an initiative to use a locally available grass as a renewable energy source. The UI's use of the grass, called Giant Miscanthus, is part of its goal of achieving 40 percent renewable energy consumption by 2020.

Nearly 20 women in Bahrain and Jordan participated in A Room of One’s Own: Developing the Authorial Voice, a distance-learning course offered by the UI International Writing Program. The course focused on issues of artistic identity while fostering participants’ authorial voices and building a community of women writers.

The University of Iowa’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) will sponsor an abridged version of its Venture School program to help University of Iowa faculty innovators determine if a business market exists for their inventions.

A new University of Iowa study is the first to evaluate the relationship between receiving care at federally qualified health centers and the rate of hospital stays and emergency department visits for potentially preventable conditions among individuals who receive both Medicare and Medicaid.

"For Iowa, Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa" has reached a major milestone of $1.5 billion, 88 percent to goal.

The firm handling the University of Iowa’s search for a new president says 11 candidates have submitted applications, 16 have said they will apply, and 45 are seriously considering applying. The firm provided an update July 2 during a telephonic meeting of the Presidential Search and Screen Committee.

The UI will now have a better glimpse of the galaxies, thanks to a group of students who built and commissioned a state-of-the-art telescope in Arizona.

For the first time, the University of Iowa's School of Music is paying cast members of the summer opera.

For the 11th straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

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.