Several thousand people converged on Hubbard Park Sunday, Sept. 29th for the UI 23rd annual Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival.

Lung transplant patients and their families walked alongside their physicians from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' transplant center Saturday at the American Lung Association's Fight for Air Walk in Des Moines.

The University of Iowa has named Edwin Dove and Susan Johnson this year's recipients of the Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service, recognizing their contributions to the university and the state of Iowa.

In his career as painting conservator, Barry Bauman has found everything from hidden signatures to entire paintings under other works of art. Those discoveries will be among the highlights of a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Room 240 of Art Building West on the UI campus.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present the Jerusalem Quartet, one of the world’s most respected string quartets, on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverside Recital Hall in Iowa City.

Fourth-generation pig farmer Paul Willis hadn’t planned to return to his family’s farm in north central Iowa after completing a psychology degree at the University of Iowa and joining the Peace Corps. But when his stepfather asked if he could help with the harvest in 1974, he obliged—and never left.

Newly admitted UI College of Education students will receive free iPads at a ceremony today, thanks to a donation from an alumna and retired teacher.

A new University of Iowa study, published in the journal Science, challenges the longstanding belief that anabolic steroids become less ecologically harmful as they degrade.

University of Iowa Alumni Fellow Simone Ferro and Grant Wood Fellow Esther Baker-Tarpaga will join Department of Dance faculty in providing choreography for this year's Dance Gala, which runs Oct. 17-26.

NerdWallet.com, with a nod to the University of Iowa, recently ranked Iowa City as the fourth most generous town in the United States.

Emma Miller was just 4 years old when she had an adverse reaction to medication, causing her lips to swell and her skin to blister and eventually shed. The Oelwein youngster will be the honorary Kid Captain when the Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers Saturday, Sept. 28, in an away game.

The University of Iowa campus will be full of activities next week when UI Homecoming 2013 festivities begin on Sunday, Sept. 29. This year's theme is "Countless Hawkeyes, One Spirit."