The University of Iowa again will host 25 young business and government leaders from several African countries this summer as part of the U.S. State Department Mandela Washington Fellowship for African Leaders.

The search committee for the next vice president for student life held its first meeting this week and adopted an aggressive timeline that would conclude the hiring process in late June or early July.

The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Board of Trustees named University of Iowa Executive Vice President and Provost Barry Butler president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, effective March 13.

The Pomerantz Career Center offers for-credit classes that show UI students, particularly those with liberal arts majors, how to use their academic background to find jobs and start their careers.

The University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine and Tippie College of Business have teamed up to offer classes that teach business basics to medical students so they have a better idea of the business side of medicine when they go into practice.

The UI College of Pharmacy hopes to become a leader in palliative and hospice care education, allowing its graduates to help meet the growing demand for end-of-life medical experts.

Faculty resignations at the University of Iowa in fiscal year 2016 remained flat, and medical faculty continue to constitute the largest portion of resignations, according to an annual report submitted to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.

University of Iowa Health Care researchers report that the results of a study of injury rates in youth football leagues did not show flag football to be safer than tackle football.

University of Iowa students have built a device to recreate Earth’s auroras in miniature. The planeterrella is the only one of its kind in Iowa and one of just a handful in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has named the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids corridor and the University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator as one of 10 designated automated vehicle proving ground sites in the nation.

On Feb. 6, the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Foundation announced the successful conclusion of For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa. The campaign yielded $1.975 billion from more than 272,000 alumni and friends of the university.

Some 4,732 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean’s List for the 2016 fall semester.