University of Iowa President Sally Mason has selected Tom Rocklin, vice president for student life, and Richard Fumerton, a professor of philosophy and past president of the Faculty Senate, to chair a committee to search for a new vice president for strategic communication.

"Iowa Now" will publish on a lighter schedule over Spring Break March 18-22.

With grain bin entrapments on the rise nationally, the University of Iowa hosted a conference to raise awareness and to seek solutions. Kelley Donham, professor in the College of Public Health, says more attention needs to be paid to make such work safer.

"The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Crosscurrents," edited by University of Iowa alumnus Steven P. Schneider, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. The book examines the resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it.

Once again, the University of Iowa W-2 forms will be available on the Human Resources Self Service website at hris.uiowa.edu/selfservice.

With winter just around the corner, this is a good time for members of the campus community to get reacquainted with the University of Iowa’s severe weather policies and make sure their Hawk Alert contact information is up to date.

Jake Christensen, a University of Iowa alumnus who was not comfortable coming out as a member of the LGBT community when he first came to campus, is helping other LGBT students feel supported to succeed on campus in his role as a UI senior admission counselor.

The UI has become the first public institution in the nation—and the second U.S. institution of higher education—to specifically include optional questions about students' sexual orientation and gender identity in their application for admission.

The new seminar, “Passport Project: Exploring Knowledge,” will engage students in campus- and city-wide active research. Participating first year students will attend 12 or more cultural events over the course of the semester.

When Maggie Shipstead’s friend was hit by a golf cart driven by a hoity-toity Nantucketer, Shipstead had no idea she would one day walk off with one of literature’s top prizes as a result. Shipstead, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in November received the Dylan Thomas Prize for her first novel, "Seating Arrangements."

University of Iowa Recreational Services will offer a Holiday Tennis Camp for beginner through intermediate players ages 6-12, Dec. 27-30 at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex.

"Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation," edited by Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. In the book, 13 scholars and poets examine first what and how the American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote.