University of Iowa Police will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.

University of Iowa law professor Herb Hovenkamp is part of a team assembled by the American Bar Association to advise President Obama on antitrust policy during his second term.

When JD Reive first accepted the head coaching job for the University of Iowa men's gymnastics team, his first task was as arduous as the team was ambitious; change the culture and expectations of a program that had fallen on hard times.

Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D., as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present a graduate and undergraduate dance concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 6-8, in Space Place Theater of North Hall.

The Iowa Print Fair, featuring six art dealers from across the nation and fine art prints from the 17th century to the present, will be held in the University of Iowa Studio Arts Building lobby from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art First Friday reception, 5-7 p.m. Dec. 7, at hotelVetro. For $5, enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres, a showcase of UI student work, an exclusive UIMA pop-up store, and toe-tapping tunes.

Iowa Percussion and the PanAmerican Steel Band welcome winter to Iowa City with "Holiday Percussion Pops," which will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. The concert, under the direction of Dan Moore, professor of percussion in the University of Iowa School of Music, is free and open to the public.

UI officials say that the university has made significant strides in both recruiting and retaining students across a broad spectrum of diversity. This includes students of different ethnicities, international students, student veterans, LGBT students, students with disabilities, and first-generation students.

Take a look back at events and happenings big and small at the University of Iowa.

Three University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded the distinction of 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Enjoy a weekend of family fun at the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums Friday, Dec. 7 through Sunday, Dec. 9, including a tuba concert, lots of activities and games for children, and a screening of the film “Little Women.”