UI junior Maggie Roque spent her past summer in the thin, crisp air of Cusco, Peru, a lively city thousands of feet up in the Andes. Of the 13 people accompanying her during the eight-week stint in the...

A little more than a year ago, energetic students donning blue and white Barack Obama shirts swarmed the UI campus, hoping for the victory of a man they believed could bring change. Then on the night...

When the floods of 2008 damaged a large portion of Iowa City, some officials saw it as more of an opportunity than a setback. Because of the availability of funding and the need to renovate, city leaders...