The University of Iowa’s student and community-based group TransCollaborations announces the schedule for the fourth annual TransWeek! Nov. 2 through 5 with the theme, "Organizing Against Transnormativity," a week that celebrates trans-identified people and gender variance.

The University of Iowa has obtained NIH funding to study lower-urinary tract dysfunction, a condition that affects millions of men and women in the United States. The $1.8 million grant aims to better match diagnosis and treatment of lower-urinary tract dysfunction and patient outcomes.

It Gets Better cast members recently performed in Iowa City and toured City High School and the University of Iowa College of Education's Teacher Leader Center, where they met with future educators.

The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum and Museum of Natural History—in collaboration with the UI Department of Geoscience—will host the eighth annual Creepy Campus Crawl this Friday, Oct. 26. This night of spooky fun is free and open to the public from 6:30–8:30 p.m.

For Grundy Center native Marissa Getting, 25 is more than a birthday. Getting received a heart transplant at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at just 7 days old in 1987, making her Iowa's first pediatric heart transplant recipient.

The federal government will pay to replace three University of Iowa flood-damaged buildings at new locations, settling a months-long federal dispute over how much money the university will get for those projects.

Party for art at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) First Friday reception from 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 2, at hotelVetro! For $5, indulge in light hors d’oeuvres and drink specials from Formosa, and celebrate the “Spirit of Drawing” with local fashion illustrator Julie Johnson.

For many Americans, the Qur'an is difficult to read, its organization obscure, its messages cryptic or even threatening. Professor Carl W. Ernst will discuss strategies for making sense of the Qur'an's complex text during a series of events Nov. 1-2.

University of Iowa Student Government leaders believe students should play an important role in helping the university achieve its 2020 vision. George McCrory, a communications specialist in the UI Office of Sustainability, says the office welcomes student input.

John Westefeld, a counseling psychology professor in the University of Iowa College of Education, says that if someone is ever worried about a family member or friend considering suicide, they should ask him or her about it.

The latest UI Wellness challenge for faculty and staff eases participants into adopting healthy eating habits.

A series of workshops this fall sent Iowa City’s writing community and resources into other diverse communities to bring the excitement of literature and writing to youth around the state.