When students complete a degree in accounting at the University of Iowa Tippie College they are armed with knowledge, experience, and a practical business foundation to prepare them for a career that lies ahead.

"Western Africa Before the Boats," an exhibition at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, brings alive pre-colonial Western Africa—and the School of Art and Art History and UI Museum of Art are playing an important role.

Research by University of Iowa economist John Solow suggests diversity efforts must come from the ground up.

A study by University of Iowa researchers finds little evidence of discrimination in the lack of black NFL head coaches, but questions the effectiveness of the league's so-called Rooney Rule.

UI professor Armando Duarte, a choreographer at the UI since 1993, was inspired to create a three-week study abroad program in his native Brazil to share the culture of Carnival with UI students. He is currently in Brazil with 20 UI students so they can study the unique culture firsthand.

This year's events honoring Martin Luther King Jr's legacy include a talk by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson and a reading of Katori Hall's play "The Mountaintop."

The University of Iowa has become the nation's first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its admission application.

Jake Christensen, a University of Iowa alumnus who was not comfortable coming out as a member of the LGBT community when he first came to campus, is helping other LGBT students feel supported to succeed on campus in his role as a UI senior admission counselor.

The UI has become the first public institution in the nation—and the second U.S. institution of higher education—to specifically include optional questions about students' sexual orientation and gender identity in their application for admission.

Five University of Iowa College of Education faculty members gave a glimpse into their ongoing research at the first University of Iowa College of Education’s Research Colloquium Nov. 13 featuring Faculty Research Award recipients.

Shreya Ahuja and Emily Wechsler, 16-year-old high school students at The Hockaday School in Dallas, received an intensive two-week introduction to neuroscience at the University of Iowa last July. Melissa Duff, faculty member in the UI’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, hosted the students in her laboratory as part of this pilot program.

Mark Harris, director of University of Iowa disability services, says that earlier identification of disabled students in K-12 schools is helping to drive the enrollment growth of disabled students at all three state universities including students like Justin Wittrock of Algona.