Masks give us permission to explore new ideas or to more bravely enact ways of being that we don’t usually give ourselves permission to pursue. All of the qualities that masks allow and invite also make them a clever tool for exploring social issues—the aim of a new UI theatre production, "Crescendo," this year’s Iowa Partnerships in the Arts project.

UI researchers have found a gene in a soil amoeba that can overcompensate for the specific mutations of a similar gene. In humans, those genetic mutations can often lead to tumor growth. Researchers are now looking for a separate human gene that could overcompensate for mutations in the same way.

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The Iowa Board of Regents will convene a UI Town Hall meeting Thursday, Oct. 9, where representatives from Deloitte Consulting LLP will present administrative business cases developed as part of the regents’ efficiency and transformation review.

The UI Department of Theatre Arts’ first Mainstage production of the season brings together two Italian theater artists, a former supervisor for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, an experimental jazz music specialist, and an education sociologist in the Iowa Partnership in the Arts production, "Crescendo."

University of Iowa President Sally Mason will meet with media representatives to share updates on the university and take questions on the record at 10 a.m. Wed, Oct. 8, at 101 Jessup Hall.

As the only institute of its kind in the Midwest, King Sejong Institute at the University of Iowa will bring Korean language and culture to the Iowa City community, beginning Oct. 9 with a public kickoff celebration.

The University of Iowa issued a Crime Alert on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014.

A decade-old change in Medicare reimbursement policy for chemotherapy drugs has actually increased rural Iowan’s access to cancer care, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

The University of Iowa Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development will celebrate hundreds of outstanding fourth through twelfth-grade students and the teachers who inspired them at its annual recognition ceremony Sunday, Oct. 5.

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Alyssa Billmeyer of Marion, Iowa, is the first University of Iowa College of Pharmacy student to serve as president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government.