Faculty

Sample Instagram post for Pancheros new marketing campaign

Getting an A in burritos

Tuesday, September 22, 2015
A new Pancheros Mexican Grill marketing campaign rolling out this week features a component developed by a team of UI marketing students as part of a class project.
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Cedar Rapids girl to be Kid Captain when Hawkeyes host North Texas

Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Genetic testing revealed that Laila Walton possessed a variant of the gene associated with hypokalemic periodic paralysis, a rare kidney disorder, which may be responsible for her symptoms.

UI TIER: Electronic file storage project aids research process

Monday, September 21, 2015
As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here's one example of how TIER is already at work on campus.

Writing Iowa in Kazakhstan

Monday, September 21, 2015
With a new Massive Open Online Course offering on the horizon, English Language Fellow Harry Leeds reflects on using UI International Writing Program resources to facilitate a seven-week poetry workshop in Kazakhstan.
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Promise and Progress: Building a stronger state together

Monday, September 21, 2015
Today and every day, it’s clear that the UI is a tremendous resource for the nation, the world, and especially the state of Iowa. A new website from the Provost’s Office of Outreach and Engagement shows how deeply our university is woven into Iowa’s social, economic, and cultural fabric.
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Student leaders hail hometown

Monday, September 21, 2015
Brandon Gerleman and Morgan Brittain say it’s no coincidence they both grew up in the same small Iowa town and now hold campus leadership positions while students at the University of Iowa.
Rendering of the planned UI Children's Hospital.

Building the new UI Children's Hospital

Monday, September 21, 2015
University of Iowa faculty and staff have a unique opportunity to be recognized in the new UI Children's Hospital on a special donor wall reserved just for UI employees.
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Volunteers needed for student recruitment event

Friday, September 18, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to help with You@UI Academic and Student Life Open House on Oct. 3. The University of Iowa campus will be bustling with 3,000 prospective students and parents.
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UI to hold Deeded Body Program memorial service Sept. 25

Friday, September 18, 2015
The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., in Iowa City.

Writers' Workshop grads on National Book Award fiction longlist

Thursday, September 17, 2015
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Angela Flournoy, Karen Bender, and T. Geronimo Johnson are among the authors on the National Book Awards longlist for fiction.
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Get to Know...Brandon Paulson

Thursday, September 17, 2015
The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Brandon Paulson, adviser with International Student and Scholar Services.
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New UI initiative to help strengthen diversity, inclusion proving to be popular

Thursday, September 17, 2015
So far, a new program offered by the UI Chief Diversity Office designed to help faculty and staff strengthen diversity and inclusion has received a great deal of interest. The BUILD (Building University of Iowa Leadership for Diversity) initiative, a non-credit bearing certificate opportunity, started offering classes this fall.