The Tippie College of Business conducts workshops every year helping faculty and staff learn to pronounce Chinese names, so the college's growing number of students from China feel more welcome.

The firm handling the University of Iowa’s search for a new president says 11 candidates have submitted applications, 16 have said they will apply, and 45 are seriously considering applying. The firm provided an update July 2 during a telephonic meeting of the Presidential Search and Screen Committee.

The UI will now have a better glimpse of the galaxies, thanks to a group of students who built and commissioned a state-of-the-art telescope in Arizona.

The opposite of procrastination can also be a serious problem—a tendency UI Psychology Professor Ed Wasserman calls “pre-crastination,” an inclination to complete tasks quickly just for the sake of getting things done sooner rather than later. People answer emails immediately rather than carefully contemplating their replies.

For the 11th straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

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.

University of Iowa medical faculty member and entrepreneur Kim Leslie has been elected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council on Councils, a body that directly advises the NIH director.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Maryland's state Poet Laureate has been awarded the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism by the UI for his most recent book.

Fred Ullrich and Keith Mueller, of the College of Public Health, published "Characteristics of Rural Communities with a Sole, Independently Owned Pharmacy" in RUPRI Center for Rural Health Analysis.

Charles Lynch, of the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa, published five papers in April 2015.

Hughes will continue her practice of counseling and mentoring junior faculty. After the upcoming year, she will assume official responsibilities to guide the evaluation, tenure, reappointment and promotion processes.