You might assume it was the night sky draped over his family’s farm that inspired the great UI astrophysicist Don Gurnett, but in fact it was his dad—a farmer who never went to high school—who sparked in his only child a curiosity for how things work.

An online library of interactive flood inundation maps for the Cedar River, developed by the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, allows users to adjust the settings of the maps based on water levels, current and predicted, as well as historical crests to create models of different flooding scenarios.

The University Archives’ online campus maps collection in the Iowa Digital Library reveals perspectives that shed light on campus features that have endured or are long gone.

Alyssa Lou Olson, a UI student majoring in vocal performance, was crowned Miss Iowa on Saturday.

Thanks to a generous award from the Student Technology Fund, composition students in the University of Iowa School of Music have been able to lay the necessary foundation for the school’s laptop orchestra. The students have created hemisphere speakers for their performances, and the composers are finding themselves on the stage for more than just taking a bow post-performance.

Across the ages, maps have helped people and societies chart their course through history. Now, technology opens up exciting new territory. From Iowa Alumni Magazine, a look at how maps reflect and shape our lives.

Pamela Keel, a nationally recognized expert on eating disorders, will deliver two public lectures during a visit to the UI campus June 24 and 25. Keel's visit is co-sponsored by the Obesity Research and Educational Initiative and the Department of Psychiatry in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

For Rob Nelson, working side-by-side with his sons on the new UI Children's Hospital has special meaning: "I wouldn't have my family if it wasn't for that hospital."

Veterinary students from Iowa State University give away toy golden retrievers named Josh to comfort child patients at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Charles Wright, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been named the U.S. Poet Laureate.

UI law professor Jason Rantanen says it's unusual for patent infringement cases like the one now facing Facebook in a Virginia federal court to make it to trial.

Several UI faculty members participated in a faculty summit as part of the Downtown Project that's reviving downtown Las Vegas, headed by David Gould, public scholar in the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.