Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited the University of Iowa campus today, Tuesday, May 20, to meet with shared governance leaders and faculty involved in entrepreneurial work. During the visit, Branstad and Reynolds toured the new John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building, which is scheduled to open in June.

UI student Haley Church, from Forest City, Iowa, who is majoring in interdepartmental studies and pre-medicine, reflects on her semester studying abroad in Gaborone, Botswana this past spring semester.

Hit the road, faculty. About 30 UI researchers and scholars travel this week to northeast and southeast Iowa to meet with civic, education, political, and business leaders, part of the annual Faculty Engagement Corps, now in its ninth year.

The most recent update on Rising to the Next TIER, the transformation and efficiency study of Iowa's public universities commissioned by the Iowa Board of Regents.

Photos with Graduation Herky on the Pentacrest. Celebration shots by the Old Capitol. Selfies at University of Iowa commencement ceremonies. Students, faculty and staff, and parents were all willing to share their commencement experiences over the weekend in social media, using the hashtag #UIGrad14.

Colleagues and friends remember UI physics professor Lew Frank as a leader in physics and astronomy and a great contributor to space research.

Commencement ceremonies from the Tippie College of Business were live streamed to China with translation and analysis from UI staff members from China. About 20 percent of the Tippie College's students are from China.

The University of Virginia is working with the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) to conduct research into teens with autism and their driving skills.

Cheeni Rao was once a homeless drug dealer on the streets of Chicago, but he eventually earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he's now added an MBA from the UI Tippie College of Business.

Political science professor Tim Hagle says some political endorsements are worth more than others for the candidates.

Former Indy 500 champion Buddy Lazier will compete at the Indianapolis 500 and other events during race week in a car sponsored by the Wynn Institute for Vision Research at the University of Iowa.

The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business' commencement ceremonies were live streamed to China on Saturday.