The growing number of international students, particularly students from China, at the University of Iowa has prompted the Tippie College of Business to offer instruction for its faculty that will help them better pronounce Chinese students names.

Sometimes everything that is old is new again. That certainly could be said about certain innovative teaching strategies that two University of Iowa College of Engineering professors are implementing in their classrooms.

The new Hancher season features music, dance, theater, and family events as the University of Iowa's performing arts presenter continues to connect artists and audiences.

Entrepreneurship education has become a “hot” area of focus that is now expected in most MBA programs and is primarily focused on experiential, rather than theoretical learning, said Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Tippie College of Business.

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The University of Iowa has a new dome protecting its rooftop astronomical observatory atop Van Allen Hall, courtesy of a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The dome, an important part of the observatory used for undergraduate student instruction, replaces one that had become outdated for classroom and public use and had been in place since Van Allen Hall was constructed in the early...

University of Iowa Facilities Management has canceled a series of short steam blows along Hawkins Drive, just north of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, that were originally scheduled to start at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, August 27, and were to end by noon the same day.

Steve McGuire, a UI professor of 3D design and metal arts, organized a contest designed to inspire innovation among students and champion the resurgence of the craft of bicycle mechanics.

Peter Thorne, UI professor and head of occupational and environmental health, will look at climate change from a public health angle in his Aug. 29 lecture, “Protecting Respiratory Health in a Changing Climate: David, Meet Goliath.”

Dr. Resmiye Oral, director of the Child Protection Program at the University of Iowa, offers advice for frustrated or tired parents to help them prevent shaken baby syndrome.

Hosin "David" Lee, UI professor of civil and environmental engineering, was recently a guest on Arirang TV in Korea, discussing the U.S.-Korea relationship in research and Korea's creative economy.

UI history professor Colin Gordon, author of Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality, says the decline in union membership has taken political power away from workers and ceded ground to groups with other interests.