"Iowa Now Minute" is a 60-second roundup highlighting recent UI activities, research, public engagement, and campus life. Look for a new video every Thursday.

Starting from human skin cells, researchers at the University of Iowa have created human insulin-producing cells that respond to glucose and correct blood-sugar levels in diabetic mice. The findings may represent a first step toward developing patient-specific cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes.

The University of Iowa is forming a series of working groups as it begins transitioning the AIB College of Business to the University of Iowa. The AIB president and Board of Trustees announced its intention to gift the college to Iowa on Monday.

University of Iowa researchers have found that data gathered from geostationary satellites—satellites commonly used for telecommunications and orbiting about 22,000 miles above the equator—can greatly improve air quality forecasting. Results appear in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters."

Live video stream for the 2015 University of Iowa Presidential Lecture Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3:30 p.m. featuring Linda Snetselaar, professor of epidemiology in College of Public Health and associate provost for outreach and engagement, on "Food, Culture, and Community." The lecture will be archived here after the event.

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 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 public is invited to a free screening of "The Lion's Mouth Opens," a documentary about a woman who bravely faces a daunting life-defining moment as finds out about her genetic testing results for Huntington disease (HD), Thursday, Jan. 29, with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m and the screening beginning at 7 p.m., at the John Pappajohn Business Building, Room W10 (Buchanan Auditorium). The film...

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.