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Tippie MBA curriculum focuses on experiential learning

Students in the Tippie College of Business’ full-time MBA program are learning more and more by participating with real-world experiential learning opportunities as part of their classroom work.

Iowa Electronic Market forecasts election outcomes

Finance professor Thomas Rietz explains the workings of the Iowa Electronic Markets and how markets can aggregate information.

Durnev analyzes Trump, Clinton tax plans

Art Durnev, assistant professor of finance, helps to analyze the tax plans proposed by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Assouline receives NAGC Distinguished Scholar Award

Friday, November 4, 2016
Susan Assouline, director of the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center, has been awarded the 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC).

UI Women in Science and Engineering partners with nationally recognized ‘Femineer’ program

Friday, November 4, 2016
The UI College of Engineering’s WiSE program will be the first Femineer affiliate university in the nation outside of California.

UI bioarchaeologists receive writing award

Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Robin Lillie and Jennifer Mack, bioarchaeologists at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, have won the prestigious 2017 Deetz Award for their book, “Dubuque’s Forgotten Cemetery: Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-First-Century City.”

UI College of Public Health researchers participate in children’s migraine study

Tuesday, November 1, 2016
A study that questions the use of certain drugs to help children suffering from migraine headaches is garnering national attention. The University of Iowa’s College of Public Health contributed to the research.

UI suggests increased farm vehicle lighting to reduce accidents

A study from the UI College of Public Health finds that accidents involving farm vehicles could be cut in half if more states adopted increased standards on lighting and reflecting for vehicles.

NADS study finds drugged driving as dangerous as drunk driving

Tim Brown, of the UI’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS), says that as illicit and prescription drugs are used more commonly, so will instances of drugged driving increase.

Losing credit, losing customers

Monday, October 31, 2016
A new study from the University of Iowa finds companies lose market share when they don’t have enough access to the capital they need to compete.

UI study finds that proposed changes to tax law would increase income shifting to foreign countries, but not much

Friday, October 28, 2016
A University of Iowa study has found a common proposed change in federal law would have little impact on U.S.-based multinational companies moving income to foreign countries to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Potential target identified for preventing long-term effects of traumatic brain injury

Friday, October 28, 2016
UI researchers believe they may have identified a potential approach for preventing the development of neurological problems associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Their research in mice suggests that protecting axons—the fiber-like projections that connect brain cells—prevents the long-term neuropsychiatric problems caused by blast-related TBI.