Never mind that Iowa Summer Rep provides audiences with top-notch productions. UI theatre arts students get to rub shoulders with professional stage actors, and the pros find themselves re-energized by the students' enthusiasm for their art.

The University of Iowa, in partnership with 11 Iowa hospitals comprising the UI Critical Access Hospital Network, has received a $7.7 million Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve care coordination and communication with practitioners in 10 rural Iowa counties.

Law professors Todd Pettys and Andy Grewal consider the issues in the Supreme Court's impending health care decision

Steve and Nissa Greenquist love to teach and travel. The father-daughter alumni duo were two of 35 teachers from across the state who recently visited the University of Iowa campus to learn how to better infuse global perspectives into their classrooms.

Local author Martin Robillard will read from Damaged From The Inside Out: Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 23, in Prairie Lights Books and through a live stream on the Writing University website of the University of Iowa.

Lynette Marshall, University of Iowa Foundation president and CEO, outlines efficient, effective, and essential strategies for connecting with UI supporters.

The University of Iowa Opera Theater production of H.M.S. Pinafore will dock at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts July 13-15. The following weekend, July 20-21, the production will be presented at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.

The National Iowa Varsity Club is hosting a "Fitness for Life" run Saturday, June 30, at the Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City. The "Fitness for Life" initiative is designed to develop positive habits that will lead to a lifetime of healthy choices and active lifestyles for athletes of all ages.

All-Pro offensive lineman Marshal Yanda's goal of playing football for the University of Iowa didn't follow a straight 40-mile path from Anamosa to Iowa City. But once he reached Kinnick Stadium, a new path began, one that led to the NFL and Pro Bowl status.

Poet and neurologist Dawn McGuire will read from her new collection June 22 at Prairie Lights Books.

A new UI Press anthology—part of the Contemporary North American Poetry Series—by Gerald Bruns explores typographical experiments, sounds, digital presentations, found texts, and other avant garde methods.

Second-year students at the UI College of Dentistry launched a deliberately goofy plan for honoring a favorite teacher. The result is earning viral-video buzz.