UI junior Dan Olinghouse was in his second semester of an independent study abroad program when revolution began sweeping Cairo. Now back home, he recounts his experience among the demonstrators in Tahrir Square. More

Beverly Davidson, UI expert on inherited diseases, gene therapy, and treatments for brain disease, will present the 2011 University of Iowa Presidential Lecture Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Levitt Center for University Advancement on the UI campus. More

Most of us have been affected by something called “space weather” without even realizing it. Check out the latest edition of Iowa Insights and hear how University of Iowa researcher Craig Kletzing plans to study space weather with a $30 million NASA grant. More

A UI law student and researcher says states might better combat teen “sexting”—sending nude photos via text messaging service—with new legislation to address the issue directly instead of adapting existing obscenity or pornography laws. More

University of Iowa Libraries has bound what's got to be one of the world's thickest books—a 100,000-page, two-foot book of poems written by Dave Morice (aka, Dr. Alphabet) during a 100-day poetry marathon. More

UI finance experts say the ongoing collapse of the housing market rippled through the stock market in ways previous collapses had not, causing deeper economic damage that will take longer to fix. More

Stephen Russell, UI professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, is the first recipient of the Dina J. Schrage Professorship in Macular Degeneration Research. More

Its current home is an ice arena near the food court in a Coralville mall, but only competitive success sates the hunger of the UI Ice Hawks club hockey program. Founded in 1974 as a small, independent squad, the student-run team has become one of the Midwest's fastest rising club programs. More

Raúl Curto and Philip Kutzko, both faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics, were named 2010 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. More

The University of Iowa’s Hancher has launched a new Twitter stream that offers updates on events and other news while paying homage to Virgil Hancher, the former UI president after whom the UI arts presenter is named. More

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Region VII office denied an appeal to the FEMA ruling that the UI Museum of Art is ineligible for replacement funding, prompting the University to request that the appeal go to FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. More

UI junior and Hawkeye wide receiver Marvin McNutt Jr. will remain at the University and compete on the team as a senior. More