For the 11th straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across academic and business cases.

University of Iowa medical faculty member and entrepreneur Kim Leslie has been elected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council on Councils, a body that directly advises the NIH director.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Maryland's state Poet Laureate has been awarded the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism by the UI for his most recent book.

Fred Ullrich and Keith Mueller, of the College of Public Health, published "Characteristics of Rural Communities with a Sole, Independently Owned Pharmacy" in RUPRI Center for Rural Health Analysis.

Charles Lynch, of the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, published five papers in April 2015.

Hughes will continue her practice of counseling and mentoring junior faculty. After the upcoming year, she will assume official responsibilities to guide the evaluation, tenure, reappointment and promotion processes.

Yockey joined the faculty in 2010 and was voted Professor of the Year by the law school student body for 2011-12.

Students from underrepresented groups from all across Iowa spent a week living at the University of Iowa and learning about college life in the Tippie College of Business' Gateway Proram.

More Iowa businesses are hiring more employees, making it easier for UI's Class of 2015 to find jobs in the state.

The University of Iowa maintains the largest van pool program for employees in eastern Iowa.