Hannah Walsh, a UI sophomore political science major from Spirit Lake, Iowa, was recently appointed to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. Walsh is the lone student member on the nine-member board and is ready to be the voice of the students of the UI, Iowa State University, and University of Northern Iowa.

Wenfang Tang, a UI political science professor, says that compared with their predecessors, the new Chinese leaders seem to show more sophistication, confidence, and ambition in a CNN weekly column focusing on China's new austerity in response to directives from Beijing.

University of Iowa finance major Adam Schweickert is getting a major leg up from the financial giant Sallie Mae—not only a free ride to cover his bachelor's degree, but his master's degree as well.

The University of Iowa Women's Resource and Action Center has hit a growth spurt this year, with a record number of volunteers and nominations.

Sarah Gardial took over as the dean of the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business in July. Since then, she's been meeting with businesses and working with faculty to set a strategic plan for the college.

On Jan. 26 and 27 University of Iowa Mock Trial team 1479 competed in the ninth annual Big Red Invitational Mock Trial tournament hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, a document was mistakenly distributed to approximately 2,000 University of Iowa students associated with the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment (CDE) in the Chief Diversity Office that contained their names, number of enrolled credit hours, and grade point averages (GPA).

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Symposium, hosted by the College of Education’s Diversity Committee and sponsored by the UI Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, celebrates College of Education student research focused on diversity and service. Awards were given for the top five projects.

Thanks to the public's voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestone for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages transcribed.

The UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) is helping faculty and graduate students learn how to effectively communicate their research. The project involves producing short videos, with CGRER staff help.

Iowa City and University of Iowa will join with activists around the world at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, for "One Billion Rising," the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

A UI researcher has designed a computer program that allows engineers to accurately predict the role posture plays in transferring the stress of vehicle motion to bone and muscle in the head and neck.