Jun Wang, a professor in the College of Engineering, is developing a soil moisture sensor that farmers can use to more precisely plan irrigation for their crops.

As the final students in the Tippie College of Business' full-time MBA program graduate, new and expanded professional programs are proving to be successful in attracting students who want a different type of education.

John Achrazoglou, clinical associate professor and chief technology officer in the University of Iowa College of Education, has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a three-week English language specialist project focusing on technology in Pakistan.

More than 12,000 children visit the University of Iowa campus each year to tour or participate in programs at the Old Capitol Museum and UI Museum of Natural History. There, they get an up-close, hands-on look at the history of the state.

Jennifer Robinson, professor of epidemiology in the UI College of Public Health and director of the Preventive Intervention Center, was the lead researcher on a team from the National Lipid Association that issued a new statement paper providing clinicians with new guidance for the use of statins in select patients.

University of Iowa PhD student Dwain Coleman talks about how in the 1800s, free and once-captive African Americans came together in what were called Colored Conventions. Coleman is involved in the first pilot satellite partner of the acclaimed national Colored Conventions Project.

The University of Iowa has launched Addressing the Crisis, a new open-source online journal that takes inspiration from the work of sociologist Stuart Hall. The journal is hosted by Iowa Research Online, a service dedicated to preserving and providing open access to the research and creative scholarship of the university.

A honeymoon in New Zealand introduced Tippie College of Business alumna Hannah Barnstable to muesli, which she loved so much she quit her Wall Street investment banking job and moved home to Minnesota to start Seven Sundays, her own business that makes and sells the product.

The jaw bone of a juvenile mastodon was donated to the UI Paleontology Repository by the southern Iowa farmers who found it on their land. Tiffany Adrain, collections manager at the repository, said these remains are somewhat common, particularly along waterways in Iowa.

In his forthcoming memoir, Sandy Boyd shares how he made a difference in the world while working in the Midwest. “A Life on the Middle West’s Never-Ending Frontier” will be available May 20 from UI Press.

University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors on April 23 at the 102nd Finkbine Dinner. UI President Bruce Harreld and Vice President for Student Life Melissa Shivers presented the Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader certificates.

Healthy LifeStars is the latest initiative from the University of Iowa College of Public Health to reduce childhood obesity by encouraging more activity and better eating.