Collected essays by Chris Arthur will become available Aug. 15 from the University of Iowa Press.

The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science has won $6.9 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue academic, educational, and research programs for researchers throughout the university.

Each day when University of Iowa players walk into the Hayden Fry Football Complex, there is a not-so-subtle reminder motivating them for the 2012 season: four empty trophy cases. Senior quarterback James Vandenberg says the thought of these vacant pedestals will help drive the Hawkeye team this fall.

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.