Step 1: Dominate in the weekend’s Iowa Invitation. Check. Step 2? Perform in the Big Ten Championships on Feb. 27. In preparation, the weekend’s meet consisted of several local, low-key schools,...

In Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday afternoon, the Iowa gymnastics team competed harder than it had all season by head coach Larissa Libby’s standards. Unfortunately for the Hawkeyes, it still was not...

On paper, it seems like just another ninth-place finish. But the Iowa women’s swimming and diving team accomplished much more over weekend at the Big Ten championships in West Lafayette, Ind. Despite...

The Iowa wrestling team completed its second-consecutive undefeated regular season on Sunday. The Hawkeyes pounded No. 19 Wisconsin, 31-6, to earn their 61st-straight dual victory and capture their third-straight...

Like many college students in Iowa City, Karla Miller spent the occasional night out with girlfriends. One of those seemingly simple nights, however, ended up changing her life forever. After a softball...

For roughly two and a half years, the UI has been at the forefront of research into one of the most common pathogens affecting Americans. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacteria...

School boards looking to chart a new course may have more options. If passed, a proposed state bill would create a state-sanctioned board to help create charter schools, public institutions with a niche...

Frank Piersol’s son remembers him as a man dedicated to his family, his friends, and his love for music. Piersol, a former UI band director, died Feb. 19. He was 98 years old. The former director of...

Dressed in white lab coats and purple latex gloves, University of Iowa microbiologists worked laboriously to locate and identify some of the smallest organisms on the planet. Scientists at the UI Hygenic...

For Shriya Anavkar, the UI Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival was more than a chance to express her culture. At the Sunday festival, she and her husband stood behind a long black table embellished...

While the East and West Campuses are divided by a river, both are finding new ways to operate in the face of budget cuts. In July 2009, most of the UI Hospital and Clinics’ family-dentistry program...