A team from the University of Iowa College of Law is working with law schools in Tajikistan to strengthen the Central Asian country’s form of legal education and, ultimately, its entire legal system.

Chun-Fang Wu, professor of biology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was elected as a prestigious academician of Academia Sinica, the most preeminent academic institution in Taiwan.

Images created by the Cherished Portraits program at UI Children’s Hospital look like typical professional photos. These pictures, however, are anything but ordinary. The program provides portrait sessions for families experiencing stillbirth or newborn death, infants and children with life-threatening illnesses, children facing the end of their lives, or at the time of an unexpected death.

Cheryl Strayed, best-selling author of Wild, will launch the fall Live from Prairie Lights readings on the Virtual Writing University website with Tiny Beautiful Things, Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23.

A bust of Nile Kinnick, the University of Iowa’s only Heisman Trophy winner, will be on display in the trophy case at the UI booth at the State Fair Aug. 9-18. Hawkeye fans will also have a chance to meet and reminisce with flesh and blood versions of former athletes.

After this morning’s 8 a.m. blow, the University of Iowa's steam whistle will be out of commission for about 48 hours while routine maintenance is conducted on the steam line that gives it its distinctive voice.

The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood by Carroll Englehardt will be available Aug. 15, from the Bur Oak Books series of the University of Iowa Press.

To help raise awareness of the issue of sexual assault in the U.S. military, the American Legion Post 29 in Washington is hosting a free screening of the new, award-winning documentary The Invisible War at The Englert Theatre in Iowa City at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Kristi Cardwell wanted to spend her summer building confidence on the golf course as she enters her senior year on the University of Iowa women's golf team. Winning a professional event as an amateur is exactly the type of confidence boost she had in mind.

More than two dozen Icelandic social scientists from Iceland, Canada, and the United States will converge on the University of Iowa campus Aug. 12-14, to debate, discuss, and dissect the Icelandic economic meltdown.

Volunteering at the University of Iowa exhibit at the State Fair is a great way to connect with Iowans from all over the state or even right in your own department. UI staff member Amy Green talks about these engaging experiences.

More than 30 students from around the world converged on the University of Iowa campus this summer for six weeks doing innovative research in a biology lab. Their experiences were part of the University of Iowa College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program.