This year’s UI Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights includes a Day of Service focused on hunger and homelessness, a unity walk and tribute on the Pentacrest, and a lecture by journalist, documentarian, and TV news producer Soledad O’Brien.

The University of Iowa opens a series of events in Des Moines Tuesday, Jan. 28, with a talk by P. Barry Butler, UI executive vice president and provost, on wind energy, which has emerged as a vital part of Iowa’s energy economy.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason expresses her appreciation to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad for his FY 2015 budget recommendations for the UI, particularly the 4 percent increase in general university operating appropriations, which will allow the university to freeze tuition for its students for a second consecutive year.

Former University of Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker passed away early Monday morning at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Parker, who retired from the Iowa coaching staff following the 2011 season, was 72.

"Love Lasts Forever" is a journal created by two members of UI Children's Hospital's palliative care team for parents who have lost a child but still have memories, joys, and thoughts to express.

Ibrahim Ozbolat, University of Iowa assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and co-director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group, is featured in a new video produced by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Loneliness has long been thought to cause people to buy things impulsively, but new research from the University of Iowa suggests that it’s not so much if you’re lonely, but the nature of the loneliness that matters.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Public Health, has released the 2013 Iowa Health Fact Book, a broad-ranging report covering the health and health-related behaviors of Iowans.

Sarah McNitt, a study abroad advisor in UI International Programs, got her moment in the spotlight as a Jeopardy! contestant. Her program airs Jan. 14.

The University of Iowa’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Every Atom: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, organized by the UI International Writing Program (IWP), offers participants everywhere the opportunity to read, consider, and discuss Whitman’s epic poem, and is free and open to anyone with an Internet connection.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa offers various programs and services to help UI students land internships at Iowa companies. The internships help students obtain career and professional experience and, in some cases, can lead to full-time jobs.