When the RAGBRAI pass-through towns are announced, faculty advisor and JPEC lecturer Bob Walker and his students offer them promotional assistance. They've done so for four years in a row, and this year are working with eight towns, including Templeton.

For five years, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital has been sharing its message about bicycle safety across the state during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), along with delivering medical care for cyclists along the route.

The Old Capitol Futures tennis tournament, a U.S. Tennis Association Pro Circuit event, takes place through July 22 at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex. The first professional tennis tournament to take place in Iowa since 1986, the event was organized by Sport and Recreation Management program students.

UI President J. Bruce Harreld has named Liz Tovar, associate athletics director for Student-Athlete Academic Services, and Claire F. Fox, professor and chair in the Department of English, to co-chair the search committee tasked with selecting the next chief diversity officer.

UI faculty and students have designed a web-based game that can be played by anyone with a smartphone and a Fitbit.

So many serious writers are now fixing their sights on television that the University of Iowa, home of the venerable Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a postgraduate TV-writing fellowship and will begin a workshop focused on the specialization this fall.

After back-to-back state budget cuts by the Iowa Legislature, the University of Iowa will close several centers and eliminate more than 30 positions not directly tied to student instruction.

UI College of Pharmacy researchers have created a virtual, web-based pharmacy service that offers Iowa primary-care providers in small towns and rural areas additional help in managing chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. The team is looking to expand the service in Iowa and beyond.

Nearly 5,400 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2018 spring semester.

More than 500 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2018 spring semester.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 4,500 degrees at the close of the 2018 spring semester.

UI alumni and Bettendorf, Iowa, natives Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are finalizing a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to adapt Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman” for a new horror film. Beck and Woods’s script for this year’s A Quiet Place, co-written by director and co-star John Krasinski, made $328 million.