Janet Shepherd is a coach who loves to play.
As a seminar leader for the Iowa City Learning Foundation, an organization that offers classes to promote personal growth, she tries to improve people’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
