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A President's Perspective Sally Mason talks tuition, construction, arts campus revival

On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists improve space weather forecasts. The twin satellites will study the Van Allen radiation belts, discovered by UI physicist James A. Van Allen in 1958. More

ARTS CALENDAR

UI launches online arts calendar

Arts fans have a new, up-to-the-hour source for info about everything arts on the UI campus, including exhibits, dance, film, music, theater, readings, and Hancher events. Users can browse events by artistic medium or click the site’s calendar to see what’s happening on any given day. More

TRANSIT TRENDS

Car-sharing program coming to campus, downtown this fall

Starting this fall, students, faculty, staff, and community members will have a new way to get around Iowa City: a car-sharing program run by a company called Zipcar. More

ACADEMIC ACCOLADES

Fiske Guide names UI a ‘Best Buy’ for 2013

For the eighth straight year, the UI has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Iowa is one of three Big Ten schools on the list. More

LASTING IMAGES

Hospital program offers portrait sessions for families whose children face serious health issues

Images created by the Cherished Portraits program at UI Children’s Hospital look like typical professional photos. These pictures, however, are anything but ordinary. The program provides portrait sessions for families experiencing stillbirth or newborn death, infants and children with life-threatening illnesses, children facing the end of their lives, or at the time of an unexpected death. More

HARDWARE HUNGRY

Football team aims to reclaim three rivalry trophies in 2012

Each day when UI players walk into the Hayden Fry Football Complex, there is a not-so-subtle reminder motivating them for the 2012 season: four empty trophy cases. Senior quarterback James Vandenberg says the thought of these vacant pedestals will help drive the Hawkeye team this fall. More

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Summer program offers lab experience to gifted students from around the world

More than 30 students from around the world converged on the UI campus this summer for six weeks doing innovative research in a biology lab. Their experiences were part of the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center’s Secondary Student Training Program. More

PEDIATRICS

UI study finds that infants of overweight mothers grow more slowly

Babies born to overweight mothers gain less weight and grow more slowly than those born to normal-weight mothers, according to a UI study. But they do catch up, meaning that pediatricians should refrain from boosting their nutrition, which could make matters worse. More

WRECKS AND EFFECTS

UI researcher finds fewer fans watching NASCAR for the crashes

A study by a UI economist finds that many car race fans do, indeed, watch NASCAR races to see car wrecks, but more have been tuning in to see who actually wins the race since the circuit adopted its Chase for the Cup championship series in 2004. More

ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS

UI grad makes waves in music industry with innovative website

Sean Moeller discovered his love of music as a student in Iowa City, and he’s parlayed that into a career. His website, Daytrotter.com, went live in 2006 and has become a launching pad for some of the biggest bands in America. More

A SHOT AT STARDOM

American Idol holds audition on campus

American Idol came to campus Aug. 14 as part of its small town bus tour. Fans and hopefuls alike, including UI students, lined the street waiting for their shot at stardom. See if any UI students made the final cut when the season starts in January 2013. More

HONORED ALUMNUS

Engineering graduate inducted into Iowa African-American Hall of Fame

The late Philip G. Hubbard, UI vice president emeritus and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, was recently honored posthumously with an induction into the Iowa African-American Hall of Fame. More

“You hear about the Madoffs and the Wasendorfs, but you don’t hear about the millions of people in the financial industry who work very hard every day and don’t commit fraud. Unfortunately, it gives people a very skewed perception.”

Robert Miller, College of Law professor, defending fraud-detection efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s 200 attorneys in light of recent high-profile cases (Gazette, July 29).

More UI national news

“Our governments need to know this is not what we want. We all do share the same air across the world, the same ocean as everyone in the middle.”

UI alumna Michelle Gin, the sole U.S. participant in August’s International Peace Bike Tour in Japan, explaining the driving force behind the 340-mile trek: to show solidarity with the victims and survivors of nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear accidents over the past 60 years (KCRG, July 29).