The University of Iowa is encouraging the state’s young people to develop new businesses by co-sponsoring a competition that will award cash prizes to the best ideas from Iowa high school student entrepreneurs.

The University of Iowa College of Law is participating in a program that encourages law students to move to rural areas and replace retiring attorneys.

Cellist Yoo-Jung Chang and violist Manuel Tábora will present a free concert through the University of Iowa Center for New Music at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

Earl Rose, the Dallas medical examiner who tried to stop the Secret Service from removing John F. Kennedy's body before he had conducted an autopsy, then later joined the UI faculty as a professor of forensic pathology, died today in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History wraps up its "Movies@MNH" series at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 6, with the free public screening of “Fly Away Home” in Macbride Auditorium.

Celebrate the conclusion of "Just Do(t) Art," a community art project at the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s (UIMA) May First Friday reception, May 4, at the hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City. For $5, watch the last dot be placed and view the installation in its final form.

For the fourth consecutive year, George Washington High School in Cedar Rapids achieved the No. 1 ranking on the “2012 Iowa AP Index,” which was developed eight years ago by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

This year's Capote Award winner looks at the literary history of American women writers.

The world tends to remember 85-year-old Earl Rose, a retired forensic pathologist and University of Iowa professor now facing his own final days, for one fleeting moment in the middle of a national tragedy. He was a Dallas medical examiner who tried to keep White House aides from removing John F. Kennedy’s body before an autopsy had been conducted.

Keith Schilling, adjunct assistant professor in the University of Iowa Department of Geoscience, writes in an op-ed that excessive tile drainage from farm fields could exacerbate flooding.

The Tippie College of Business has built five homes and raised $250,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The newest house will be dedicated Saturday, May 5.

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and the Iowa Centers for Enterprise have announced seven winners of the 2012 Grow Iowa Values Funds (GIVF) Development Funds Proposal Competition.