Mo Yan, a 2004 participant in the University of Iowa International Writing Program, has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mo is best known for his 1987 novel Hong Gaoliang Jiazu (in English,...
If you give a cow a chocolate-chip cookie, a candy bar, or snack food — at the end of the day, the meat is no sweeter.
Summer heat and lack of moisture stole the grass from Iowa pastures, forcing cattle...
Officials say a new app for smart phones and the iPad produced through the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office will help put tools and information at voters’ fingertips during the election season....
The proposed tuition freeze has yet to meet someone it didn’t like, or rather, someone who didn’t like it.
President of the state Board of Regents Craig Lang spoke at the University of Iowa...
University of Iowa junior Jake Thomas wants his study-abroad experience to be different and out of the ordinary. The first place that popped up in his mind was a country several thousand miles away from...
Not much separates your average college student driving her or his car over a bridge, and the homeless person living underneath it.
“They are men and women, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers,”...
While the security threat North Korea poses is often discussed, little is known about the severe human-rights crisis the country is suffering.
This is something the organization Liberty in North Korea,...
A local man faces drug charges after police reportedly uncovered the remnants of two methamphetamine labs, including one underneath the east side of the Iowa Avenue bridge near the University of Iowa campus....
Some of Iowa’s sexual-assault and domestic-violence programs are set to see a decrease in the amount of money they receive due to a regionalization of the victim-services fund. Now, local officials...
Not often do elected bodies suggest keeping politics out of elections.
The Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students passed a resolution to support an educational push for students to become...
Voters in Iowa will cast their ballots on Nov. 6 for the next president of the United States. Beyond the two major candidates, third-party and write-in candidates navigate a series of requirements across...
While national organizations such as the National Congress of American Indians are pushing their voting advocacy programs among Native Americans in this election, one local organization has not made any...
