A team of Tippie MBA students are working with Polaris Industries to improve the efficiency of the company's motorcycle plant in Spirit Lake.

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

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts and Cape Town’s Artscape Theatre Center, in partnership with the UI International Writing Program, will present Book Wings South Africa, a unique collaborative theater initiative. This free production will be staged at noon Tuesday, March 10, in Theatre B at the UI Theatre Building.

More than a dozen videos, websites, promotional items, and other work produced by and for University of Iowa units were recognized at the Feb. 28 American Advertising Awards Gala recognizing creative excellence in the marketing industry.

Blue Zones Project Iowa City announces the University of Iowa has been named a Blue Zones Worksite with more than 4,000 employees taking the pledge to be healthy. The university will celebrate the designation from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

Nicholas Johnson, UI law professor, and Dan Reed, UI vice president for research and economic development, analyze the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to define the Internet as a utility.

A UI graduate who now oversees hiring for professional services firm Deloitte explains what she's looking for in M.B.A. hires.

University of Iowa law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig says if the races are ever to come closer to understanding one another, the lessons have to start when children are young.

Four University of Iowa scholars were awarded a total of $86,060 in support of their innovative approaches to teaching with technology.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent with The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle, presented "A Deeper Black: Race in America” to a packed Englert Theatre on Feb. 25. Coates also participated in a community conversation featuring a panel of UI faculty, students and staff, and an Iowa City Council member.

The University of Iowa Libraries has been selected as the host site for the state of Iowa for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. The tour will take place in 2016; specific touring dates will be announced in April.

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