Business Insurance magazine has ranked the UI Tippie College of Business as having the nation’s third-largest risk management and insurance undergraduate program in its 2025 survey. The program, now in its third year, enrolled 350 undergraduate students as of October 2025. Jim Lewis, director of Tippie’s Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance, was quoted

UI business analytics professor Jeff Ohlmann is studying crowdshipping, where customers — who are not store employees — would be asked to deliver merchandise ordered online in exchange for a gift card or other incentive. He says they’d first need to be registered and screened.

UI political science professor Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, an expert on international conflict and cooperation, appeared on the station's Talking History podcast.

Dr. David Dickens, a pediatric oncologist and director of pediatric cancer services at the UIHC Stead Family Children’s Hospital, was interviewed about the Hawkeye Wave and Kid Captains program. The beloved football traditions renew moral for pediatric teams and families.

A healthy higher education system depends not only on producing employable graduates but also on cultivating citizens and leaders who can interpret uncertainty, question assumptions, and connect ideas across disciplines, writes UI engineering professor Daniel McGehee, director of the Driving Safety Research Institute.

UI finance professor Erik Lie discussed his pioneering research into options backdating, his new book Hatching Cheats, and how forensic finance can detect hidden misconduct on the publication's Drinks with The Deal podcast.

UI vice president for medical affairs Dr. Denise Jamieson and UIHC CEO and associate vice president Brad Haws sat down with the Business Record while they were in town for the ribbon-cutting for UIHC's new Urbandale clinic.

UI political science PhD candidate Ahmed Bulbul writes about the UN's use of an expanded international military force in Haiti.

UI law professor Samantha Barbas wrote about why the U.S. doesn't have hate speech laws.

Fruit fly mating is reminiscent of a medieval romance. Male fruit flies vibrate their wings to produce a unique courtship song that attracts females, who promptly choose whether they want to mate with the male. The antennae of fruit flies are always vibrating, even when there is no sound present. “These vibrations are at the courtship song frequency, which makes the antenna ten times more sensitive to sounds in that frequency,” said Daniel Eberl, professor of biology at the University of Iowa. This specific tuning helps female fruit flies process the courtship songs performed by males.