Academics

Tippie students advance to Deloitte national tax case competition

Thursday, December 1, 2016
A team of University of Iowa accounting students recently won the regional championship of a tax case study sponsored by Deloitte, a national accounting and consulting service.
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Getting grads good jobs

Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Assistant Provost David Baumgartner provides a sneak peek into both the behind-the-scenes and center-stage work of the Pomerantz Career Center, which reaches more than 10,000 University of Iowa students each year.

Down in the valley

Monday, November 28, 2016
The Tippie College of Business’ Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance trains UI students for careers in corporate finance, and more and more of them are looking to California’s booming San Francisco Bay Area to get their careers started.
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UI readies for Cassini finale

Monday, November 28, 2016
University of Iowa space scientists are readying for the final phases of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn. They hope to learn more about Saturn’s auroras, thunderstorms, and rings from a radio- and plasma-wave instrument designed and built at the UI.

Crowdfunding comes to the UI as GOLDrush

The University of Iowa this week launched GOLDrush, a crowdfunding platform that supports research and other academic-related activities, and provides an easy way for UI alumni, students, and others to make tax-deductible contributions to specific UI-based organizations and projects.

The lonely shopper

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Jing “Alice” Wang, associate professor of marketing in the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, studies lonely people, in particular their shopping habits and relationships with retailers.
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Curtain call

Friday, November 11, 2016
After 30 years, University of Iowa theatre arts professor and directing program head Eric Forsythe plans to retire at the end of the spring semester. Forsythe sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about his time at Iowa and his final UI play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”
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Navy veteran embraces passion for science education

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
After serving in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Navy Reserves, University of Iowa student Spencer Gibson is pursuing his dream of teaching science.
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Life at the new Voxman Music Building

Monday, November 7, 2016
Creativity, instruction, and camaraderie—all happening within a state-of-the-art facility. This is what the new Voxman Music Building, home to the University of Iowa School of Music, brings to the university.

Tippie MBA curriculum focuses on experiential learning

Students in the Tippie College of Business’ full-time MBA program are learning more and more by participating with real-world experiential learning opportunities as part of their classroom work.

Essay option for Tippie MBA admissions

Paul Pinckley, admissions director of the full-time Tippie MBA program, explains why the traditional essay is an optional part of the admissions process.

Assouline comments on which students would benefit from skipping a grade

Susan Assouline, director of the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa, helped develop a tool called the Iowa Acceleration Scale to aid schools in deciding which kids would benefit from skipping a grade.