As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across academic and business cases.

The Iowa Board of Regents announced on Friday, Aug 14, that candidates for the University of Iowa presidency will participate in public forums from 4:45 to 6:15 p.m. at the Iowa Memorial Union. The on-campus interview process will occur during the weeks of the 24th and 31st of August.

As the UI prepares to welcome students and families for the start of the academic year, the Vice President for Student Life reminds the campus community to make sure they’re up-to-date on their vaccinations. Tom Rocklin reports six UI students have tested positive for mumps in the past few weeks.

For the first time in its 46-year history, the UI Press—long known for its short fiction contest—is coordinating a contest for writers of creative nonfiction.

Dr. Patrick Schlievert, chair and department executive officer of the Department of Microbiology, has been selected to receive the 2016 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award.

UI 3D design students created the UI’s booth for the 2015 Iowa State Fair—a first for both the program and the university. The hexagon—a shape found in the construct of DNA—was used thematically in the booth, as a way to convey innovation, technology, creativity, and research.

University of Iowa and the National Safety Council have launched MyCarDoesWhat.org to help educate consumers about new automotive safety technologies and how they work.

The Iowa Department of Education and the University of Iowa’s College of Education recently announced that Deborah Reed will be the next director of the Iowa Reading Research Center. In addition, the center is transitioning to the University of Iowa.

Lyn Redington has been named the University of Iowa’s new assistant vice president and dean of students. She starts at the UI on Aug. 19.

Rajan Sah, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine in the UI Carver College of Medicine, has recently received a three-year, $400,000 Carver Trust Young Investigator award to study the role of fat-cell expansion in the development of insulin resistance and diabetes.

Businesses need more and more experts in data analytics, or Big Data, so the Tippie College of Business has started a graduate certificate program in Des Moines and a master's program in Cedar Rapids.

A new program at the University of Iowa will encourage and coordinate the use of data analytics across campus.