The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards help fund innovative applications of instructional technologies that impact student success and retention.

Since 2005, University of Iowa College of Education faculty scholars have been awarded more than $25 million in external funding. Current projects include everything from recruiting diverse doctoral students, to measuring the efficacy of play therapy, to an afterschool program encouraging girls to find strong role models in literature.

A survey by the University of Iowa Public Policy Center revealed that among Iowa children, African-Americans and Latinos experience a higher rate of health care disparities than white and Asian children.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present a Gallery Production, "Monopoly," written by Sarah Cho and directed by Ashley Pettit, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Iowa native David Thoreson will open his photographic exhibit at the UI's Old Capitol Museum during a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23. His exhibit, “The Northwest Passage and Oceans Beyond: An Iowan Sails into History,” will be on display Jan. 23 through May 25.

Jen Percy, a graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from her debut, "Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

Tonya Peeples, UI professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, was appointed in 2013 as the College of Engineering's first associate dean for diversity and outreach. In that role, she is organizing the college's efforts to attract more women and minorities to engineering.

Visitors to the University of Iowa campus can now enjoy free guest wireless service without having to track down a guest ID to log in, courtesy of a partnership between Information Technology Services (ITS) and AT&T.

A more than $1 million dollar gift from the Sharer family will help fund diabetes research at the University of Iowa's Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center.

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The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will begin its spring “Movies@MNH” series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, with a free public screening of "Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo" in Macbride Auditorium.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.