The precautionary boil advisory issued Thursday, Feb. 20 for Iowa City west of Riverside Drive and University Heights has been lifted.

The UI Dance Marathon raised a record $1.8 million with the leadership help of college students from the Quad-Cities—Daniel Morse, a 2009 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School, and Taylor McKee, a 2010 graduate of Clinton High School.

Researchers with the UI Office of the State Archaeologist plan to continue excavating in and around Hubbard Park, with hopes that artifacts discovered during flood recovery work will help fill historical gaps for the state, city, and university.

UI Housing and Dining chefs tied its Lunch with the Chefs event to the popular PBS series Downton Abbey, with an “Upstairs” menu featuring a feast fit for the aristocratic Crawley family, and “Downstairs” offering a more modest menu for the servants' table.

The 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, hosted by the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center, will bring more than 150 of the top science and math high school students from across the state to the UI campus Feb. 27 and 28.

Members of the public recently got a behind-the-scenes preview of a ground-breaking play designed to shine a light on—and stir public conversations about—one of the most pressing social issues of the day: cyber-bullying among teens.

Even with basketball season in full swing, University of Iowa men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery continues to help with cancer awareness and fundraising for cancer research.

The University of Iowa will host the Samuel L. Becker Memorial Conference Feb. 27 through March 1 and kick off a public Community Conversations series March 1 to honor the life and work of the noted communications scholar and distinguished professor emeritus.

UI College of Education students participated in workshop simulating how children with visual disabilities feel in a classroom; Will Coghill-Behrends, director of professional development, says the goal is for teachers to be able to detect visual dysfunctions that impede student learning.

Students at Prairie Trail Elementary School in Ankeny saw works by African artists up-close when Dale Fisher, curator of education at the UI Museum of Art, brought the museum's K-12 School Programs Collections to the school the week of Feb. 17. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)

Because of a main break on Capitol Street near Lafayette Street on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 19, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has requested a precautionary boil advisory for Iowa City west of Riverside Drive and University Heights. This does not include the University of Iowa, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, or the Veteran's Administration Hospital, which use a...

Krishna Das, who received his Master of Arts from the UI College of Education in 2000, volunteered to spend a year in Iraq because he believed he could make a difference, making the leap from an education scholar to an international diplomat working for the U.S. Department of State.