According to a new UI study, Netflix and Amazon have much to teach online dating sites; sites need to start ignoring what people put in their online profiles and use stealthy algorithmic logic to figure out ideal matches—matches that online daters may have never pursued on their own.

Members of the media are invited to cover two second-grade classes led by their University of Iowa College of Education alumnae teachers who will visit the UI to tour campus and participate in a culminating activity with students in the UI College of Education Wednesday Dec. 11 and Friday, Dec. 13.

UI officials have been working for years to enhance the educational experience for veterans—debuting veteran-specific classes, working with department heads to translate military training into course credits, and offering support groups and events for service members.

As many around the world mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela at age 95, UI law professor Adrien Wing says that her work on developing a democratic constitution while Mandela was still imprisoned in 1988 may have been about hope and not necessarily immediate action.

With the help of a nonprofit organization, Bridges to Prosperity, a UI student group designs and builds pedestrian bridges in remote areas where most transportation is by foot and where swollen rivers cut residents off from work, school, health care, and markets in which to trade their goods.

Kang Zhao, assistant professor of management sciences in UI's College of Business, and UI doctoral student Xi Wang are part of a team that has developed an algorithm for dating sites that uses a person's contact history to recommend partners with whom they may be more compatible.

Professor Philip Kutzko of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been at the forefront of recruiting and graduating doctoral students from underrepresented groups.

Financial analysts make more accurate price targets for the stocks they follow if they use more rigorous valuation models, according to a study from the University of Iowa, as portfolios from analysts who used the complex Residual Income Model saw a mean increase of 15 percent in one year, while analysts who used the simpler Price/Earnings Growth ratio decreased in value by 5 percent.

The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free jazz recital Sunday, Dec. 15. at 2 p.m. in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall on the UI campus.

It’s fitting that on a day when Iowa City received its first significant snow fall of winter, the University of Iowa football team accepted an invitation to play in a bowl game with a slogan of “Football in Paradise.”

Milan Sonka, professor and departmental executive officer of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, has been appointed associate dean for graduate programs and research in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, effective Jan. 15, 2014.