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...
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...
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...
A fire in an Iowa City apartment building on Thursday left 10 residents, including some UI students, without a home.
Iowa City firefighters said the structure, located at 515 E. College St., is probably...
Faculty efficiency has been a focus at the UI for at least two years, but the budget crisis in particular has “accelerated” the need, the faculty council president said.
Because of the diminishing...
Preventing crime and balancing the budget are the two key issues facing Iowa City, Mayor Matt Hayek told the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday evening.
He addressed a number of the city’s...
The UI is looking to continue boosting its minority recruitment, particularly for Latinos, according to a Monday report from a task force commissioned by Provost Wallace Loh. But several community members...
One of downtown Iowa City’s fiercest advocates will step out of the spotlight this summer.
Leah Cohen, the current president of Iowa City’s Downtown Association, will leave the position on June 1,...
The way UI gifted researchers see it, no child should be left behind — or held back from her or his possible future.
The Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, which works to...
A new committee to decide the allocation of the student activity fees is garnering praise from both sides of a yearlong funding dispute.
The new committee will help determine how much funding groups with...
Justin Marshall has been in jail for more than 90 days.
The 19-year-old is being held as a material witness in conjunction with the Oct. 8 shooting death of John Versypt, the landlord of an apartment...
UI social-work major Anna Schwenker loves giving children the opportunity to learn musical instruments.
The music-minor counsels youth through music and other programs as a part of her practicum.
Today...
