University of Iowa President Sally Mason issued the following statement today: "Regarding the recent media reports about Peter Gray, it is a confidential personnel matter and the University of Iowa will not make any additional comment. However, I want to assure you that we are continuing to review all the details regarding this matter and how it was handled. Once all the facts are known, I will...

More than 1,500 wrestling fans jammed the Dan Gable Wrestling Complex over three sessions Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to watch this year's wrestle-offs.

Pianist Michael Brown and cellist Nicholas Canellakis, both of New York, will perform a free public concert at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Senate Chamber of the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum. The performance will feature music by Brown as well as by Dvorak and Brahms.

Patrick Fischer of Lone Tree, Iowa, a double major in physics and astronomy in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has won a scholarship that may help him to achieve his goal of one day studying processes on planets and moons that hold the potential for life.

The university’s innovative and award-winning Energy Control Center has realized more than $500,000 in energy savings and helped reduce energy consumption to meet our 2020 Vision, which is to hold energy consumption at 2010 levels, irrespective of campus growth.

On Nov. 9, NASA renamed a recently launched mission to study Earth's Van Allen radiation belts as the Van Allen Probes mission in honor of the late James A. Van Allen, U.S. space pioneer and longtime distinguished professor of physics in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Leaders of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa have named three researchers as recipients of the second round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History continues its fall series, “Storytime Adventures,” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18. Join us on the third Sunday of each month as we explore animals and the environment in Iowa and around the world.

In recognition of his worldwide reputation as a respected teacher and scholar of international human rights, Burns Weston, founding director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, was recently awarded the Courage of Conviction award.

A University of Iowa team of more than 30 researchers from five different colleges has been named a finalist and awarded $5,000 in a competition that challenged international research teams to provide the best interpretation and communication of DNA sequencing results for three children with rare, undiagnosed genetic diseases.

The Hancher footbridge will be closed Nov. 9-16 for emergency repairs to a water main. Pedestrians should use the Iowa Memorial Union footbridge as an alternate route during the closure.

The University of Iowa Mock Trial team took home four top-10 finishes at a tournament at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn, Nov. 2-4.