UI student Meghan Ryan will share her Irish heritage and culture through her performance with the Champagne Academy of Irish Dance at the Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival this Sunday, Sept. 29, held for the first time in Hubbard Park and as the kickoff to Homecoming 2013.

Certain anabolic steroids and pharmaceutical products last longer in the environment than previously known, according to a new study led by the University of Iowa. The researchers found that the steroid trenbolone acetate, along with some other pharmaceutical products, never fully degrade in the environment, and can partially regenerate themselves under certain conditions. Results published online...

Johnny Appleseed isn’t just a symbolic folk hero. He was a real pioneer apple farmer named John Chapman whose dream was to produce so many apples no one would ever go hungry. The UI has its own folk hero. His name is Andy Dahl, and he is an arborist.

The University of Iowa law school will host a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of a landmark legal ruling that guaranteed low-income criminal defendants the right to legal representation.

Former Congressman Jim Leach comes home to the University of Iowa and joins the UI faculty to teach the next generation.

Pat Winokur of UI Health Care is testing a vaccine for a potentially deadly strain of influenza that killed dozens of people in China earlier this year, a strain so unfamiliar in humans that the vaccine may have to be combined with adjuvants, compounds that help boost immune system response.

Not everyone is born with the best attributes for dance, but everyone should dance, according to George de la Pena. The benefits of encouraging simple movement as a form of physical health is part of the curriculum in the University of Iowa’s Department of Dance.

Adam Haluska, one of the University of Iowa's most decorated men's basketball players, achieved a goal he set a year ago, providing one of the greatest feelings of accomplishment he has ever felt.

Crane operators first struck the north face of old Hancher shortly after 9 a.m., and they continued to strike various parts of the roof during the morning, marking the first exterior impact after months of inside demolition.

Watch the iconic and beloved Hancher Auditorium come down Monday, Sept. 23, through both still images and video, making way for a new state-of-the art Hancher in the future.

Members of the media are invited to the UI College of Education’s Teacher Leader Center Friday, Sept. 27, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for a ceremony where all newly-admitted undergraduate and master's teacher education students will receive free iPads thanks to a donation from alumna Linda Baker.

Robin Sloan will read from his novel "Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.