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.

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.

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.

Iowa artist Judy Bales will host a lecture and workshop Saturday, July 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Supreme Court Chamber of the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum. The talk features examples of her work and a discussion on the creative processes of these works of art.

The 2012 UI Faculty/Staff/Student 2-Person Scramble golf tournament, sponsored by UI Recreational Services, will be held on Saturday, July 14, at Finkbine Golf Course in Iowa City.

Anne Greenwood Brown will read from her new young adult novel at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 30, in Prairie Lights Books and on a Writing University live stream from the University of Iowa.

Two multicultural Greek-letter organizations were founded at Iowa: Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity and Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health has been selected to receive $640,000 from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study and develop ways to more effectively gather information that patients, families, and physicians can use to make informed health care choices.

The so-called "achievement gap" is something schools inherit, not something they create, says Peter Hlebowitsh. The key to closing that gap rests in the hands of parents. Visit libraries, participate in community programs, or simply read with your child during summer break.

The new University of Iowa Information Technology Facility (ITF) has become the first building on campus to earn LEED Platinum certification—the ultimate standard for green design.

Single-stream recycling, adopted by the University of Iowa campus within the past year, is making it easier to recycle on campus. The effort is part of the university's goal to achieve 60 percent waste diversion by 2020.

Several University of Iowa faculty are available to provide the media with legal and health care analysis for the Supreme Court's ruling in the health care reform law case.