The University of Iowa has a new sandbox—and it’s used to explain gravity. Undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy designed and built an augmented-reality sandbox where users can design their own universe and then watch how gravity affects an object as it travels through the imagined environment.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business announced Jan. 9 that it is introducing a new full-time Master of Business Analytics (MSBA) degree at its Iowa City campus. The new program starts in fall 2018. Applications are being accepted on the college’s website.

A University of Iowa initiative called Tiny Trash encourages recycling and reduces waste on campus. More than 2,000 faculty and staff in 18 buildings have joined the effort, which ties into the UI’s goal to divert 60 percent of campus-generated waste to recycling by the year 2020.

Research by Tippie College of Business doctoral student Kristina Bigsby finds a link between a high school football recruit's Twitter activity and they college program for which they decide to play.

The number of children in the United States diagnosed with autism may be significantly higher than previously thought, information that could lead to a reconsideration of how health care resources are allocated, according to a new University of Iowa analysis published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (“JAMA”).

A high school student with autism in Hamilton, Ohio, received a $1,000 grant from the University of Iowa's Jacobson Center for Youth Entrepreneurship for his business, Turn Autistic To Artistic, that offers his insight to teachers using customized comic strip illustrations to teach life lessons to students with special needs.

The University of Iowa has identified and reported to the state unauthorized transactions by a faculty member.

Associate professor of marketing William Hedgcock participates in a discussion of the best ways to keep New Year's resolutions by using better planning.

A class of marketing students in the Tippie College of Business is working with Pancheros Mexican Grill restaurants to develop ideas for its next chain-wide marketing campaign.

The Iowa Native Spaces project, led by graduate students and faculty from UI’s History Corps, works closely with tribal partners to help prevent the erasure of Meskwaki and Ioway history and bring Native perspectives to more Iowans.

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The Tippie Analytics Cooperative helps businesses improve their operations with data analytics while providing students with on-the-job experience.