As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here's one example of how TIER is already at work on campus.

The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa has provided information for the state's laboratory personnel regarding diagnostic testing, collection and submission instructions, and lab safety.

UI political scientist Tim Hagle discusses why Iowa gets to vote first and other common questions about the Iowa caucus process.

Two University of Iowa faculty members and a Grinnell professor are using Mellon Digital Bridges funding to take a national lead in humanities/computer collaborations. They aim to see how two datasets could be combined to answer a host of questions about the history of published literary texts.

Charles Stanier, associate professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, will serve on the USDA's Agricultural Air Quality Task Force.

Research from UI assistant professor of management and organizations Ernest O'Boyle finds startups risk losing badly needed revenue if they offer enhanced employee benefit packages too soon, but they may lose their top employees if they wait too long.

Jacquett Wade of the University of Iowa discusses programs to encourage women to get involved with science and technology.

While Abby Restko was a UI student, she studied abroad in Venice, Italy, where she discovered Murano glass jewelry. Restko, a marketing major with an art minor, knew then that she should have a jewelry store that offered Murano glass locally. So she opened Glassando in Old Capitol Town Center.

Tippie finance professor Art Durnev discusses his research that finds countries experience greater economic volatility during a national election campaign because it creates political uncertainty that businesses don't like. Durnev's portion of the program starts at 17:50 on the audio file.

The University of Iowa India Winterim study abroad program is recipient of the prestigious 2016 Institute of International Education Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education.

The UI Libraries is equipping a new storage facility to house items that rarely circulate. To prepare for the move, items stored at the current Libraries Annex will be unavailable for retrieval beginning January 2016. However, users may access another copy of a stored item through UBorrow.

UI researchers are reminding U.S. doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases that can be passed from mother to child. Though Chagas' disease and Leishmaniasis are generally found in other parts of the world, global travel and migration have made the U.S. vulnerable.