Featured headlines

Floodwaters surround buildings on the University of Iowa arts campus

Federal report on major flood recovery projects generates statewide, congressional response

Thursday, June 28, 2012
State, congressional leaders reacted strongly today to a federal report finding fault with FEMA’s replacement determinations for the UI's flood-damaged Hancher, School of Music, and studio art buildings.

Iowa health care organizations launch new partnership

Thursday, June 28, 2012
University of Iowa Health Alliance unites more than 50 hospitals and 160 clinics to share expertise, support services, and information technology.
UI alumna and bookmaker Marybeth Slonneger sits at the counter of the Hamburg Inn No. 2 in Iowa City.

Alumna boils down the Burg

Thursday, June 28, 2012
In her book on the Hamburg Inn No. 2, UI alumna and bookmaker Marybeth Slonneger wove together essays, poems, reminiscences, photos both past and present, drawings, and old advertisements gathered from an assortment of folks, many of them associated with UI writing programs—and all of whom share a fondness for the legendary Iowa City diner.

Cranking up Sherlock

Thursday, June 28, 2012
The comic mystery 'Sherlock’s Last Case' by Charles Marowitz is the final full production in the 2012 Iowa Summer Rep season of “Chills and Thrills.” It will open at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 12.

Animals in song

Thursday, June 28, 2012
Baritone Stephen Swanson and pianist David Gompper perform July 8 concert in preparation for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Hammond named acting Carver College of Medicine dean

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Donna Hammond, professor of anesthesia and pharmacology, succeeds Paul Rothman and will serve until the appointment of a new permanent dean.

June 28 'Iowa Day' on BTN

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The countdown to the 2012 University of Iowa football season is under way, but fans don't have to wait to get their Hawkeye fix. The BTN will hold its second “Iowa Day” of the summer Thursday, June 28.
lincoln bell in the NICU

$11 million to help preterm babies

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The National Institutes of Health is helping a University of Iowa team treat diseases affecting premature babies. A grant, the fourth renewal obtained by John Widness and colleagues, will test alternative approaches for delivering life-sustaining red blood cells.
Students sitting in stands at Kinnick Stadium during On Iowa celebration

On Iowa! volunteers reap rich rewards

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Executing five days of activities for some 4,500 students is no small undertaking—On Iowa! is fueled by the work of hundreds of volunteers.
pollock-close-up.jpg

Picture perfect

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A collaboration with the Getty in Los Angeles will provide new technical insight into Jackson Pollock’s painting Mural (1943) and give the West Coast a chance to see up close one of Iowa’s cultural treasures.

The Getty, UI Art Museum to collaborate on conservation of Pollock's 'Mural'

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s seminal work 'Mural' (1943) will be conserved as part of a new collaboration between the Getty and the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Twice-exceptional

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A $150,000 grant secured by the University of Iowa College of Education’s Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development will help provide services to “twice exceptional” students—or gifted students with learning, behavioral, emotional, and/or social impairments—their families, and educators.