A portion of Burlington Street in Iowa City will be closed on Tuesday, Dec. 2, and the North-South section of Front Street will be closed from 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2 until mid-morning Wednesday, Dec. 3.

Iowa City’s New Horizons Band is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The band, a joint effort between the Iowa City community and the University of Iowa College of Education, provides adults ages 55 and older the opportunity to learn a musical instrument and play in a band or ensemble.

Studio director Jon Winet and UI history student Ethan DeGross will share their work in, “A Field Report from the ‘Studio:’ Public Digital Arts and Humanities Research at the University of Iowa,” from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the UI John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center in Des Moines.

"The Student Experience" showcases University of Iowa students who excel academically—inside and outside the classroom. This installment features Tyler Hackman, a first-generation college student from Lawler, Iowa, who is pursuing a double major in marketing and management.

When Liam was 2 months old, the Feeleys came to University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and met with pediatric orthopedic surgeon Ericka Lawler, who put the family at ease.

Fresh on the heels of signing an exclusive global license agreement with the University of Iowa Research Foundation for its patent-pending Atrial Fibrillation (AF) ablation technology, IOWA Approach announced late Monday, Nov. 24, that it has received an equity investment from Boston Scientific Corporation.

After his son's harrowing war experience and difficulty assimilating to college and civilian life, College of Dentistry's Rick Williamson has played an active role in helping veterans at the University of Iowa transition successfully from military service to higher-education studies and careers.

The University of Iowa will become part of a new collaboration that supports one of the state’s largest entrepreneurial conferences, to be held in Iowa City next May.

The University of Iowa has been designated a Home Base Iowa Certified Higher Academic Military Partner (CHAMP) for its work to educate and assist veterans on campus.

More than 300 middle school students, primarily from Eastern Iowa, were in Coralville in mid November to participate in the 18th annual University of Iowa International Day for Human Rights. This year students learned about “The Human Right to a Clean Environment.”

Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools. The findings are being presented Friday at the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Hear about University of Iowa students’ supporting the viability of a number of Iowa communities for years to come in, “Enhancing Sustainability in Iowa Through Community Engagement,” on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at noon in the Iowa Memorial Union Iowa Theater.