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.

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The dome, an important part of the observatory used for undergraduate student instruction, replaces one that had become outdated for classroom and public use and had been in place since Van Allen Hall was constructed in the early...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.