Cars and guns are neck and neck for the No. 1 cause of death among those 25 years and younger. In 2011 (the most recent set of data), 32,351 people in the same age range died from bullets, according...

Never in my life would I ever expect to see Bill Nye at the top of a discussion on NFL footballs; but alas, the famed science wiz did just that last week in wake of the DeflateGate controversy. As most...

With a campus as seamlessly integrated with the surrounding metropolitan area as the University of Iowa is with Iowa City, the two are almost synonymous. But in a surprising move, UI President Sally Mason...

The Iowa women’s gymnastics team has been making big strides this season with career bests broken every meet and placing strong against other strong teams.  All eyes, however, are on sophomore...

A gambling man knows there’s no such thing as a sure win. He can get close, but there’s never a guarantee. If that man wanted as close of a sure bet as possible, he wouldn’t need to...

Jahisha Thomas’ first college meet didn’t go as planned. At the Border Battle in Iowa City on Jan. 10, the London native finished in second-place with a time of 8.90 in the women’s 60-meter...

Last week, after Brandon Sorensen beat defending NCAA Champion Jason Tsirtsis during the Hawkeyes’ thrashing of Northwestern, Iowa coach Tom Brands raised some eyebrows when he said Brody Grothus...

Time will tell whether Iowa’s recent two-game losing streak is a sign of what’s to come from the 13-7 Hawkeyes or merely an aberration. What is known is through the first seven games of the Big Ten...

For the second time this season, Iowa’s 149-pounder Brandon Sorensen was awarded Big Ten Wrestler of the Week honors. However, the award isn’t exactly the highest goal Sorensen has set for...

Entering the 2014-15 campaign, the Iowa women’s basketball team knew it had a perfect storm brewing. There was Sam Logic, the do-it-all All-American point guard. Ally Disterhoft was coming off as...

At Tuesday’s Faculty Council meeting, many members felt a recent challenge from the state Board of Regents was a slight to the university. “Is this in vain of U.S. News Report?” was...

Seventy years ago, the Soviet Red Army followed train tracks to the brick gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where an estimated 1.1 million Jews, Romanis, and other people deemed to be “undesirables”...