As unpredictable as the annual draft is, there is one constant with all Hawkeyes from 1999 to present: While Iowa players might occasionally slip down the draft board because of height, 40-yard dash time, or wing span, they remain strong in their commitment to character building.

"U.S. News & World Report" has ranked University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City in nine specialties in the new 2015-16 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. UI Children’s Hospital is the only hospital nationally ranked for pediatric care in Iowa.

The University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business will begin offering a new certificate program in business analytics in Des Moines starting this fall, providing Central Iowa working professionals an opportunity for advanced study in a rapidly growing field.

University of Iowa Police received a report of a sexual assault that occurred in the early morning hours of June 6, 2015.

Jean Robillard, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Iowa, sent a message to all UI faculty, staff, and students, encouraging them to nominate candidates for the UI presidency.

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited the University of Iowa campus to attend an annual meeting with Faculty Senate and Staff Council officers Thursday. Three groups from the arts and humanities gave presentations to Branstad and Reynolds, and the dignitaries toured the UI Mobile Museum.

Following are highlights from the Iowa Board of Regents meeting Thursday, June 4, at Iowa State University in Ames.

On June 3, the University of Iowa celebrated the reopening of the Iowa Memorial Union's ground floor. It's the first time the area has been open to the public since the June 2008 flood.

Sometimes, researchers need a helping hand to close the distance between a brilliant idea and a commercially viable product, service, or business. That’s where the University of Iowa’s GAP Funding Program comes in.

For the first time since it was immersed in floodwater seven years ago, the University of Iowa Memorial Union ground floor will be open to the public. University and local officials will commemorate the re-opening of the 83,000-square-foot space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by self-guided tours on June 3.

A miniature version of the University of Iowa’s advanced driving simulator will participate in a clinical trial later this year to assess a patient’s driving ability after cataract surgery.

A multi-center study led by infection control experts with UI Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent.