Students in the university's part-time M.B.A. program in Des Moines develop marketing plans to help Central Iowa entrepreneurs, including a restaurant owner and UI graduate who still keeps in touch with his undergraduate marketing instructor.

There’s no other day during the school year when philanthropy—nicknamed “Phil” by the University of Iowa Foundation’s Student Philanthropy Initiative—is more visible than on Phil’s Day, which took place on Thursday, April 30—the fourth annual celebration of philanthropy on the UI campus.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development held its Celebrating Excellence: Discovery and Innovation Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 28. The annual event recognizes faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, and mentors who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments to research in their field.

The University of Iowa recently named the recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

University of Iowa experts are conducting research to determine whether college students and others will pay attention to a system that alerts individuals to potential traffic danger as they are texting and walking along roadways.

The DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research community at the University of Iowa, will recognize research from the past year during its third annual DeLTA Day celebration Friday, May 1, at the Athletic Hall of Fame.

Undergraduate dance majors in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will have the opportunity to present their choreography to the public during the Undergraduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall.

University of Iowa Youth Ballet, a community outreach program of the UI Department of Dance, will offer four weeklong dance workshops this summer: three for children and one for intermediate dancers.

UI neuroscience researcher, Phillip Gander, discusses findings from a rare opportunity to record directly from the brain of a person with tinnitus, which shed light on the brain networks responsible for this condition.

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have shown a faster way to use data to assess fault lines, turning over reports in as little as a day to help guide rapid responses to catastrophic quakes, such as the recent disaster in Nepal.

The University of Iowa has been working for years to find a cure for preeclampsia. That ongoing research has led the university to a spot in a four-center Strategically Focused Network on Hypertension created by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Anthony Lucio and Courtney Stanford, graduate students in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, were recently awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students.