Numerous individuals have made a significant impact on the University of Iowa and have been honored with a facility in their name. The UI Facilities Management website houses a directory of said individuals; visitors can read about the honorees' achievements, view their pictures, and learn more about the buildings.

Elementary school students at a camp sponsored by UI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center learned about building business by creating a new ice cream flavor with Iowa City's Heyn's Ice Cream.

Frank Sories, Candice Maier, Andrew Beer, and Volker Thomas of the UI College of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education published "Addressing the Needs of Military Children Through Family-Based Play Therapy" in the June 2015 issue of Contemporary Family Therapy.

Susannah M. Wood, a College of Education associate professor in Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, edited Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, along with Tamra Stambaugh, an assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University.

David Duys, a University of Iowa College of Education associate professor of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, recently received the NCDA Merit Award at the National Career Development Association conference in Denver, Colorado.

University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center Staff Psychologist Alissa Doobay received the 2015 Esther Katz Rosen Grant.

The University of Iowa has been recognized by the Iowa governor's office for an initiative to use a locally available grass as a renewable energy source. The UI's use of the grass, called Giant Miscanthus, is part of its goal of achieving 40 percent renewable energy consumption by 2020.

The Tippie College of Business offers workshops at the start of each semester to help faculty and staff learn to pronounce the name of their students from China. The workshops are designed to help the students feel more welcome at UI.

"For Iowa, Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa" has reached a major milestone of $1.5 billion, 88 percent to goal.

A burgeoning enrollment of students from China is bringing changes and a new perspective to the Tippie College of Business.

The number of students taking advantage of the University of Iowa's one-of-a-kind Summer Hawk Tuition Grant program has more than tripled this year over last.

College-bound students across the country are putting themselves out there. They're not looking for love; they're picking who they're going to room with during their freshman year in an increasingly popular process known as roommate self-selection. The University of Iowa has used StarRez for three years.