January class offered by UI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center is taking a group of students to an eye clinic in India where they will look for efficiencies and cost savings so the clinic can expand the vision services it offers to the poor.

The U.S. Senate recognized the 150th anniversary of the University of Iowa College of Law by passing a resolution commemorating some of the school’s achievements. The resolution was introduced by Iowa’s two U.S. senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst.

Construction is almost finished on the Tippie College of Business' new building in Davenport that will house its part-time Professional MBA and other professional business education programs in the Quad Cities.

Dan Murphy graduated from the UI medical school and eventually became team doctor for UNI's basketball team, but now he's providing desperately needed health care services in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation of East Timor.

A UI music professor received an unique gift from her husband -- a kidney. Wayne and Kristin Thelander had the dual surgery around Thanksgiving. Doctors at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where the procedure was performed, said about 10 percent of living donations happen between spouses.

A University of Iowa-led study shows a hormone produced by the liver, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), suppresses the consumption of simple sugars. "This is the first liver-derived hormone we know that regulates sugar intake specifically," said Matthew Potthoff, assistant professor of pharmacology in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

A new University of Iowa-led study, published in "Cell Metabolism," has identified a hormone that appears to be linked to sugar cravings and consumption. The research could improve diet and help diabetic and obese patients.

Rachel Young, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, receives the first annual Faculty Service Award, presented by the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities.

In much of the developing world, fossil fuels and electricity are too expensive to be options for cooking. Instead, people there use wood burning stoves that create environmental impacts of their own, including desertification of the forests that supply the wood, and soot released when the wood doesn't burn completely.

The University of Iowa honored December 2015 graduates during a series of commencement ceremonies and other events, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 18 and 19.

Funds from the UI College of Public Health's new Community Grant Program, in conjunction with an equal cash match from another organization or business, will be used for public health-related initiatives and projects in the recipient communities.

While global negotiators met in Paris last week to hammer out a climate accord, students with the University of Iowa's Climate Narrative Project, which trains a new generation of climate storytellers by reaching across academic disciplines, had already begun the process of bringing the summit back to campus.