Henry B. Tippie, one of the University of Iowa's most accomplished and generous alumni, will visit campus to deliver the Phil's Day keynote, "Life with Phil," Thursday, May 1, at 1:30 p.m. in the second floor ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union.

Phil's Day marks—literally—the impact of private gifts on University of Iowa facilities, programs, and people. This year's celebration takes place Thursday, May 1.

The University of Iowa’s Graduate College has awarded 35 doctoral students with Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Year Fellowships for 2014.

The University of Iowa College of Law’s patent moot court team took first place at the national finals of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Patent Law Moot Court competition April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.

The University of Iowa women's basketball team had fun in 2013-14. The campaign featured 27 wins, equaling the second-highest total in program history, and 14 home wins, also equaling the second-most in school history.

Are you a fan of the Lion King? Come learn how the real-life kings of the savanna grow up as the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History presents "African Cats" at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in Macbride Auditorium.

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Kate Christensen will read from her memoir, "Blue Plate Special," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, 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.

Iowa City fifth graders are getting a view of the Earth they’ve likely never seen before thanks to a collaborative hands-on learning project with University of Iowa College of Education students and the School of the Wild.

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University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Thursday. April 24, at the 97th annual Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.

Christopher Newfield, one of the country’s most energetic analysts of higher education funding, will present a public lecture Monday, April 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event winds up the Obermann Center’s Designing the Future series while raising powerful questions about our own future.

Hannah Morlowe, a doctoral student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy, has won a prestigious NASA grant to develop a gamma-ray burst polarimeter to study the light produced by explosions in distant galaxies.