For alumni and fans interested in accumulating Hawkeye memorabilia, collecting Iowa Homecoming badges is a common and easy place to start. And for some, it's a family tradition.

The Civil War reached far and wide 150 years ago, including the leadership of Iowa’s fledgling university. University archivist David McCartney looks back on the short tenure of the university's second president, Silas Totten.

The University of Iowa has been celebrating a century of Homecoming traditions this week. The fun continues this weekend with traditional events like the annual parade, king and queen coronation, concert, and football game. The parade, themed "Keeping the Tradition: Centennial Edition," will begin tonight at 5:45 p.m.

Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award—Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino and Tell Everyone I Said Hi by Chad Simpson—will become available Oct. 1 from the University of Iowa Press.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research.

On Saturday, Sept. 29, the UI Pentacrest Museums will participate in the eighth annual Museum Day Live! Visitors can download a Museum Day Live! ticket at www.smithsonian.com/museumday and redeem it at the Old Capitol Museum or the UI Museum of Natural History for a free gift.

The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum is hosting its next “Wednesday Workshop!” series Wednesday, Sept. 26 from 6-7:30 p.m. Participants will learn how to make a simple Napoléon-era medallion, inspired by the current exhibition, Napoléon and the Art of Propaganda, which is co-sponsored by the UI Museum of Art.

The University of Iowa will hold a campus and community Sustainability Rally in the Kinnick Stadium press box from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11.

There isn't much difference between a two-carry Mark Weisman and a 24-carry Mark Weisman. And the University of Iowa sophomore running back intends to keep it that way, even after his breakout game running the ball against the University of Northern Iowa.

The 2012 series of free Sunday Prairie Lights readings, featuring writers from the International Writing Program and the University of Iowa’s graduate writing program, will continue at 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30.

The Rural Policy Research Institute Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis has been awarded two new cooperative agreements by the Office of Rural Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A total of $100,000 is available through the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award program, which supports innovative instructional technology projects that impact student success and retention.