The University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine and Tippie College of Business have teamed up to offer classes that teach business basics to medical students so they have a better idea of the business side of medicine when they go into practice.

The UI College of Pharmacy hopes to become a leader in palliative and hospice care education, allowing its graduates to help meet the growing demand for end-of-life medical experts.

Ion Vasi, an associate professor in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business who studies social movements and political sociology, said movements can fall apart for a number of reasons, including fracturing of leadership and loss of momentum.

University of Iowa students have built a device to recreate Earth’s auroras in miniature. The planeterrella is the only one of its kind in Iowa and one of just a handful in the United States.

As part of the spring 2017 semester, eight new Climate Narrative Project fellows will be combining various forms of art and storytelling to explore the theme of “Envisioning a Regenerative City in an Age of Climate Change.”

The University of Iowa College of Law’s joint degree program allows students to specialize in another field while earning their JD.

Aaron Mertes has been named the student representative for the International Academy of Life Care Planning (IALCP) for the 2016–17 year.

A team of doctoral students from the College of Education have placed first in the 2016–17 Graduate Student Ethics Competition.

Some 4,732 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean’s List for the 2016 fall semester.

About 300 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the President’s List for the 2016 fall semester.

The University of Iowa awarded nearly 1,400 degrees at the close of the 2016 fall semester.

What do you do when there's nothing to watch on TV? Or no TV to watch? The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will stage Anne Washburn's critically acclaimed ‘Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,’ in which survivors of a global disaster reenact ‘Simpsons’ episodes, starting on Friday, Feb. 8.