Only one fruit is amazing enough to drive Gwen Stefani to include it in one of her many hits. The awesome power behind the tropical yellow goodness known as bananas — yes, B-A-N-A-N-A-S — created terms...

A week of events is using art to communicate the facts about an incurable disease. While it is now common knowledge among medical professionals that HIV/AIDS infects all types of people, public awareness...

Film Review: Watchmen The opening credits for Watchmen is one of the coolest, most effective film sequences I’ve ever seen, and it sets a new artistic standard in movie openings. It quickly establishes...

I’ve applied for a lot of things in my life, scholarships, jobs, fellowships, internships, college, etc. But this year, applying to graduate school has been somewhat distinct. I can track every painful...

More Americans watched the Watchmen this past weekend than any other movie. Though primarily valuable as an artistic work, this film should spur us all to reconsider a threat many seem to have forgotten:...

Jenifer Simbhudas has always striven for perfection. Competing in her final regular-season home meet for the Iowa women’s gymnastics team on March 6, the senior sure got close. Simbhudas kicked off...

It seemed like an abnormal point to call a time-out. After all, the second half had just started, and Todd Lickliter’s game plan couldn’t have changed that much in 31 seconds of play. But there Lickliter...

With only the NCAA Tournament left to play, the Iowa women’s basketball team has two weeks off to figure out what went wrong against No. 12 Ohio State on Saturday and prepare for its upcoming first round...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Dan Erekson remembers his first experience at Big Ten championships two years ago. It didn’t go near as well as the one on Sunday. Placing sixth as a 197-pounder in 2007, Erekson...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Just as it did a year ago, Iowa stamped its 33rd Big Ten championship with a big red warning: Do not underestimate us before the NCAA championships. Amassing 141 total points by...

Housing more than 2 million books, the size of the UI Main Library is around that of Boston Public Library and the New York Public Library — only it’s bigger. Built in 1951, the UI Main Library easily...

Chilling rain on March 7 didn’t slow the hundreds of runners at Hubbard Park — all of them nearly naked. The UI’s first Nearly Naked Mile, sponsored by Students Today Alumni Tomorrow, encouraged...