University of Iowa graduate Jordan Loperena had seven months to prove himself after he was offered a job at ESPN. Five years later, he is an asset for the network that calls itself "the worldwide leader in sports."

About 5,100 University of Iowa students will mark educational milestones as they receive their degrees at spring 2015 commencement ceremonies. Ceremonies begin Thursday, May 14, with the College of Pharmacy commencement and end Friday, June 5, with the College of Dentistry. All other ceremonies will be held May 15-16.

Several individuals previously featured in our "Student Experience" series are graduating this month. We reached out to them to find out what plans they have after graduation.

The spring 2015 UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences p.m. commencement ceremony will be streamed live from "Iowa Now." Streaming will begin shortly before the ceremony begins Saturday, May 16, at 1 p.m. Archival video will replace the live stream on the "Iowa Now" page after the ceremony concludes.

The spring 2015 UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences a.m. commencement ceremony will be streamed live from "Iowa Now." Streaming will begin shortly before the ceremony begins Saturday, May 16, at 9 a.m. Archival video will replace the live stream on the "Iowa Now" page after the ceremony concludes.

University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Tuesday, May 5, at the 98th anniversary of the Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.

Sustainability via serendipity: A course cancellation led Alex Zeppieri toward the path of designing and constructing environmentally sustainable furniture. It was a wonderful intersection of his two primary areas of study: engineering and art.

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.