The 30 students of the University of Iowa Youth Ballet and School of Dance had the incomparable experience this past weekend of performing in a professional production of “The Nutcracker,” Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet, with Ballet Quad Cities and Orchestra Iowa at the restored Paramount Theater in Cedar Rapids.

Construction season is in full swing at the University of Iowa this fall, at a pace and scale unprecedented in the school’s 166-year history.

A University of Iowa librarian uses social media to lift the “veil of secrecy” around Special Collections.

The University of Iowa football team is receiving votes in both of the national polls. However, the Iowa Hawkeyes are firmly entrenched in the Top 25 that ranks teams that will be bowling later this month by their most recent NCAA Graduation Success Rate score.

Members of the media are invited to cover two second-grade classes led by their University of Iowa College of Education alumnae teachers who will visit the UI to tour campus and participate in a culminating activity with students in the UI College of Education Wednesday Dec. 11 and Friday, Dec. 13.

Professor Philip Kutzko of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been at the forefront of recruiting and graduating doctoral students from underrepresented groups.

Financial analysts make more accurate price targets for the stocks they follow if they use more rigorous valuation models, according to a study from the University of Iowa, as portfolios from analysts who used the complex Residual Income Model saw a mean increase of 15 percent in one year, while analysts who used the simpler Price/Earnings Growth ratio decreased in value by 5 percent.

An emerging holistic view of health is motivating employers to integrate traditional occupational safety and health protections with new strategies that promote the overall well-being of employees. Total Worker Health intends to make employees healthier, safer, and more productive by integrating standard health and safety practices with health promotion measures.

The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free jazz recital Sunday, Dec. 15. at 2 p.m. in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall on the UI campus.

It’s fitting that on a day when Iowa City received its first significant snow fall of winter, the University of Iowa football team accepted an invitation to play in a bowl game with a slogan of “Football in Paradise.”

Milan Sonka, professor and departmental executive officer of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, has been appointed associate dean for graduate programs and research in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, effective Jan. 15, 2014.