Don McLeese teaches classes for the new UI Master of Arts in Strategic Communication offered in downtown Des Moines and to distance learners via a virtual classroom with a focus on helping students stay afloat in a flood of information via Facebook, Twitter, and other online media.

Margaret Crocco, dean of the University of Iowa College of Education, was among several experts who shared insights in a story on the growing emphasis in Iowa of attracting top-notch students such as UI student Rachel Revelez to the field of education.

Members from both Indian Hills Community College and the University of Iowa signed an articulation agreement Thursday for the engineering program at the UI, where students working towards an engineering degree can begin working on a Bachelor of Science degree starting at the community college.

Staff at University of Iowa Libraries have scanned and uploaded hand-written recipes from American and European cookbooks from the 1600s to the 1960s as part of an effort to transcribe history through the power of the Internet.

Hannah Walsh, a University of Iowa sophomore political science major from Spirit Lake, says she looks forward to representing her peers' interests and concerns as the newly appointed student member of the Iowa Board of Regents, pending Iowa Senate confirmation.

Barbara Eckstein, a fall 2012 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence, discusses her interdisciplinary work in a Q & A on the early phases of her extensive research study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin as well as a digital, participatory People's Weather Map she is helping to build.

University of Iowa law professor Herb Hovenkamp is part of a team assembled by the American Bar Association to advise President Obama on antitrust policy during his second term.

Teachers from more than seven Iowa communities are converging on Iowa City this weekend to participate in a three-day Interdisciplinary Flood Institute organized by the University of Iowa College of Education as part of a larger initiative, the Living with Floods project.

Lee Seedorff, the senior associate director of the University of Iowa's International Student and Scholar Services in UI International Programs shares how she and her colleagues communicate with the more than 3,500 international students and scholars even before they arrive on campus.

The Iowa Print Fair, featuring six art dealers from across the nation and fine art prints from the 17th century to the present, will be held in the University of Iowa Studio Arts Building lobby from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art First Friday reception, 5-7 p.m. Dec. 7, at hotelVetro. For $5, enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres, a showcase of UI student work, an exclusive UIMA pop-up store, and toe-tapping tunes.

UI officials say that the university has made significant strides in both recruiting and retaining students across a broad spectrum of diversity. This includes students of different ethnicities, international students, student veterans, LGBT students, students with disabilities, and first-generation students.