The University of Iowa will host a special Himie Voxman Celebration at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The University of Iowa's Energy Control Center project has been selected to receive an APPA Effective & Innovative Practices Award for 2012, which includes $4,000 in cash.

A crocodile large enough to swallow humans once lived in East Africa, according to University of Iowa researcher Christopher Brochu whose paper on the discovery of a new crocodile species that was published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Two University of Iowa undergraduate researchers in the UI Honors Program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)—Allyson Mayer and Nicholas Rolston—have been named 2012 Goldwater Scholars.

Conner Spinks, a University of Iowa junior from Des Moines, is one of only 54 Truman Scholars.

Beginning Saturday, May 5, and continuing through Thursday, May 10, Hawkins Drive will be closed just north of Evashevski Drive to the entrance to the Center for Disabilities and Development during the evening/overnight hours (7 p.m. to 5 a.m.).

On the day Stephanie Kliethermes turned 27, she spent just shy of four hours running 26.2 miles in Boston. The UI Ph.D. candidate runs for her own health, and to serve as a role model for the Girls on the Run participants she coaches.

'Screen Capture,' a multimedia art exhibition that uses the screen as a medium for the creation and presentation of contemporary art, runs May 3-9 in the Media Theater of Art Building West.

University of Iowa students Suzanne Carter and Colorado Reed are inspired by different areas of math and physics. Both will further their studies at Cambridge University as Churchill Scholars.

Nearly 4,800 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees during ceremonies that run May 10 through June 8.

The University of Iowa is encouraging the state’s young people to develop new businesses by co-sponsoring a competition that will award cash prizes to the best ideas from Iowa high school student entrepreneurs.

Red Watch Band training gives students knowledge, awareness, and skills to prevent toxic drinking deaths. Health Iowa brought the program to the University of Iowa three years ago; since then, more than 1,300 UI students have gone through the training.