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UI student works as part of a student-owned business team.

UI teams accepted to JPEC venture school accelerator

Thursday, May 22, 2014
Teams of student-owned businesses will participate in the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's program to rapidly build a new business.

Most dramatic MusicIC coming in June

Thursday, May 22, 2014
The fourth annual MusicIC, Iowa City’s free summer chamber music festival, promises to be the most dramatic and ambitious yet, featuring the music of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata,” a play based on Tolstoy’s novella of the same name, which was inspired by Beethoven’s work.

UI Foundation, Alumni Association staff are 100 percent Phil

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The UI Foundation and UI Alumni Association staff achieved 100 percent participation this year during their third annual campaign to encourage employee giving in support of the University of Iowa as part of "We Are Levitt. We Are Phil."

'U.S. News' ranks online UI program among best for veterans

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The University of Iowa College of Education’s masters in educational leadership was ranked number 13 in the “U.S. News and World Report” 2014 Best Online Programs for Veterans.

UI names Outstanding Teaching Assistants

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The University of Iowa has named 30 teaching assistants the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for 2013-14. Winners receive a certificate of achievement and $1,000. They were honored at an award reception on Wednesday, May 7.

Hovenkamp comments on impact of proposed AT&T, DirecTV merger

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Law professor Herb Hovenkamp says AT&T's proposed takeover of DirecTV may have an impact on Comcast's proposal to buy Time Warner Cable.
An employee opens the door of a DirecTV van.

Hovenkamp discusses antitrust issues of proposed AT&T, DirecTV deal

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
UI law professor Herb Hovenkamp examines the antitrust issues that will be considered in AT&T's proposed takeover of DirecTV.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds tour a UI building

Branstad lauds UI facility

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds toured the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building on Wednesday and praised its innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.

Environment and politics come together in new course

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
University of Iowa students got to spend time up close with state lawmakers this spring as part of a new Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice course, offered through the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Gov. Terry Branstad gets a tour of the John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building

Branstad, Reynolds meet with UI shared governance leaders, tour new building

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited the University of Iowa campus today, Tuesday, May 20, to meet with shared governance leaders and faculty involved in entrepreneurial work. During the visit, Branstad and Reynolds toured the new John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building, which is scheduled to open in June.
UI student Haley Church studying abroad in Botswana

Farewell reflections from Botswana

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
UI student Haley Church, from Forest City, Iowa, who is majoring in interdepartmental studies and pre-medicine, reflects on her semester studying abroad in Gaborone, Botswana this past spring semester.

TIER update: Deloitte completes more campus visits

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
The most recent update on Rising to the Next TIER, the transformation and efficiency study of Iowa's public universities commissioned by the Iowa Board of Regents.