Former journalist and Air Force Airman Allen Roberts brings his experience and enthusiasm to the new position of Military and Veteran Education Specialist at the University of Iowa, where he advocates for the more than 500 student veterans on the UI campus.

Professor Katherine H. Tachau of the UI Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Allen Roberts, a military and veteran educational specialist at the UI and a veteran himself, said the university tries to make veteran students feel comfortable with the school and the college experience.

MBA programs face an array of challenges that will require a nimble response, and among those things that schools must address is what and how teachers teach, according to studies by two University of Iowa professors.

Pediatricians have a long list of things they're supposed to ask about during visits, and tobacco intervention should be a high priority, says Sue Curry, dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

UI College of Public Health Dean Sue Curry, a member of a national task force focused on preventing children from smoking, talks about ways doctors can intervene with young patients.

The University of Iowa has received a STARS gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals (UIP) was recently featured in a newscast about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disease that affects approximately one in 3,500 boys. UIP has a contract with Halo Therapeutics to manufacture HT100, a potential therapy for Duchenne.

More than 1.4 million carloads of goods and commodities were shipped across the country in rail cars during the month of July. “More moving is a reflection of more consumption,” says Anne Campbell, an associate professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa.

UI President Sally Mason extends a special welcome to students and the whole university community.

Harilaos Stecopoulos, associate professor in the Department of English in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will succeed Russell Scott Valentino as editor of "The Iowa Review" this fall.

UI President Sally Mason and Vice President of Research and Economic Development, Daniel Reed, spoke with the Quad-City Times editorial board, describing a campus eager to seek out new partnerships, and capitalize on its own discoveries and achievements.