A brand-new addition and planned renovations to the College of Dentistry's Dental Science Building promise to enhance the experience for students while giving patients some of the best care available anywhere in the world.

Academic institutions should start making a more concerted effort to engage with and support aging employees as they continue to work well past the traditional retirement age, according to a new report from the University of Iowa Center on Aging and the TIAA-CREF Institute.

News media are invited to a briefing on the annual "Cancer in Iowa" report at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Ellig Classroom (N12) of the College of Public Health Building.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Donna Hirst from the John Martin Rare Book Room in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

The University of Iowa Combined Heat and Power Plant project, located on the UI Research Park Campus, recently won a National Recognition Award for engineering excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies.

Register now for UI Recreational Services' popular summer Wildlife Camps for youth.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering K-12 Outreach program will present three summer camp programs for children beginning June 18.

The University of Iowa will host the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 31, in the UI Field House.

Three new volumes of poetry scholarship are among the late-March releases from the University of Iowa Press.

As a young professor, Linda Kerber longed to discover more about the history of women in the United States. That interest has kept her busy throughout four decades.

“Evolution in Iowa Backyards: What the Insects Eating Apples and Sunflowers Tell Us About Origins of Species” is the subject of a lecture by University of Iowa biology professor Andrew Forbes at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 22, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub of the UI Museum of Natural History.

The University of Iowa and Coe College are putting on the Science Olympiad state tournament, an event for budding scientists to compete in hands-on solo and group activities to earn a spot at the national competition, March 24 on the Coe campus.