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Engineering announces $5,000 Storer Entrepreneurial Award winner

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
BookBox is designed to offer a better way to buy and sell books.

Sharing nuggets of expertise

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Although now a member of the Denver Nuggets coaching staff, former Hawkeye player and coach Ryan Bowen still keep close tabs on his alma mater—the place where he refined his coaching skills.

Dance department presents undergraduate concert May 3-5

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present an Undergraduate Dance Concert at 8 p.m. May 3 through 5 in the Space Place Theater of North Hall.

UI Department of Mathematics honored for minority doctoral work

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The UI Department of Mathematics will write another chapter in its renowned history of supporting minority doctoral degrees when it, in coordination with the UI Graduate College’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences program, awards seven doctorates to members of underrepresented minority groups during 2012.

Final dot will complete community artwork

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Celebrate the conclusion of "Just Do(t) Art," a community art project at the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s (UIMA) May First Friday reception, May 4, at the hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City. For $5, watch the last dot be placed and view the installation in its final form.
Art Building West at night

Art Building West rededication is May 3

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The University of Iowa will rededicate the recently reopened Art Building West Thursday, May 3.

All about metawriting

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The University of Iowa Press has just released "Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction" by Jill Talbot.

Advanced Placement achievers

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
For the fourth consecutive year, George Washington High School in Cedar Rapids achieved the No. 1 ranking on the “2012 Iowa AP Index,” which was developed eight years ago by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

Showalter book wins Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

Monday, April 30, 2012
This year's Capote Award winner looks at the literary history of American women writers.

Media Advisory: Parent eating habits

Monday, April 30, 2012
It’s often thought that starting a family will help new parents begin healthier eating habits, but research from the University of Iowa shows that’s not necessarily the case.

Building homes and hope

Monday, April 30, 2012
The Tippie College of Business has built five homes and raised $250,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The newest house will be dedicated Saturday, May 5.
Alec Scranton

Frequent hiker miles

Monday, April 30, 2012
Not only is Alec Scranton, at the age of 48, the first University of Iowa College of Engineering alumnus to serve as dean of the college, but he is also a fifth-generation Iowan. But having deep Iowa roots hasn’t diminished his wanderlust.