The Tippie College of Business offers workshops at the start of each semester to help faculty and staff learn to pronounce the name of their students from China. The workshops are designed to help the students feel more welcome at UI.

Nearly 20 women in Bahrain and Jordan participated in A Room of One’s Own: Developing the Authorial Voice, a distance-learning course offered by the UI International Writing Program. The course focused on issues of artistic identity while fostering participants’ authorial voices and building a community of women writers.

A burgeoning enrollment of students from China is bringing changes and a new perspective to the Tippie College of Business.

The Tippie College of Business conducts workshops every year helping faculty and staff learn to pronounce Chinese names, so the college's growing number of students from China feel more welcome.

McMullen shares stories from his service in Burma, South Africa, Fiji, South Africa, and Eritrea. He also talks about the importance of keeping engaged with the world, something he hopes to impart on the University of Iowa students he teaches.

American and Chinese students taking a business law class in the Tippie College of Business during the spring semester are working as consultants to help Iowa businesses that are considering expanding to China.

Radar technology from the UI will help a new NASA mission look for the building blocks of life on a distant moon.

Oskaloosa native Brett Burk has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to pursue an English Teaching Assistantship in Taiwan for 2015-16. Burk graduated from the University of Iowa in December 2014 with a B.A. in linguistics and an emphasis in teaching English as a second language (ESL).

A record number of UI students and alumni have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards this year thanks to hard work among faculty and staff and a growing number of resources for students across campus.

Lesley Triplett created a unique business venture, Dumpling Darling. The Korean-style dumpling stand, now at multiple locations, started as a booth at the Iowa City Farmers Market. The idea was inspired by her love of travel, which began with a study abroad experience while at the UI.

“Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small show built around a leviathan. Mural, the mammoth painting that Guggenheim gifted to the University of Iowa, has never before been in Italy, and was recently cleaned at the Getty Conservation Institute.

Painstaking attention to detail is required when moving "Mural," Jackson Pollock's mammoth Modern masterpiece, under normal circumstances. That effort is exponentially greater when the waterways of Venice are involved.