Take a look at a few of the many ways University of Iowa programs and people are engaging with communities in Iowa and beyond. The UI was recently recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its "institutional focus on community engagement."

The Iowa Board of Regents will be asked to consider the University of Iowa’s request for an early retirement incentive program at the board’s February meeting at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present "Good Kids" by Naomi Iizuka as part of a rolling premiere commissioned by the Big Ten Theatre Consortium. This production will be on stage Feb. 5-8 and 11-15 in the David Thayer Theatre.

The University of Iowa Lecture Committee will kick off its spring semester lecture series on Monday, Feb. 2, with award-winning journalist and cookbook author Mark Bittman.

AIB College of Business Jan. 26 announced that it will become the University of Iowa Des Moines campus. Transition is expected to take at least a year, but the two schools will immediately establish an integration team to begin the process. Eventually Iowa will own AIB’s land and buildings.

Here's a fact sheet about the AIB College of Business, which provides details about the name, leadership, academics, and more.

News media outlets are invited to attend and cover a news conference today, Monday, Jan. 26, where the presidents of AIB and UI, the chair of the Iowa Board of Regents, and the chair of the AIB board of trustees will speak and take questions.

The University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business MBA Program is ranked 31 in the U.S. and 63 in the world overall according to the Financial Times global MBA ranking, published Monday, Jan. 26.

How do we best prepare the next generation of drivers? That topic will be the focus of the upcoming Hawkeye Lunch and Learn event, as Corinne Peek-Asa presents “Steering Teens Safe: How Research Has Informed Best Practices for New Drivers.”

In the not-too-distant past, the distance between you and the vast collections at University of Iowa Libraries was dictated by geography. But changes in the ways information is discovered, shared, and used are transforming university research libraries and opening access to anyone with a computer.

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Sraavya Undurty, a University of Iowa senior and biomedical engineering major from West Des Moines, has worked in two faculty research laboratories, helped teach an engineering class to her peers, and volunteers at UI Hospitals and Clinics, just to name a few of her many accomplishments and activities.