“The New York Times” uses big data to tell big stories. Leading the visual storytelling effort at the “Times” is UI alumnus Matthew Ericson, an early advocate of visual journalism and a former staff member of the University of Iowa’s “Daily Iowan.”

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 University of Iowa Department of Public Safety is expanding its student security officer program as part of a growing effort to build a community policing culture on campus.

The UI Police Department is playing in an intramural league at the university. Officers hope to build positive relationships with the students through this program.

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.

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.

A new program at the University of Iowa provides medical students with valuable business training, helping them practice skills they’ll need as professionals but aren’t apt to receive as part of a medical school curriculum.

The University of Iowa College of Law’s joint degree program allows students to specialize in another field while earning their JD.

When Scott Beckner took the reins as the UI public safety director, he identified connecting with the student body as one of his priorities. One of the means to that end was building relationships with students by forming teams of officers to take on students in intramural sports.

Aaron Mertes has been named the student representative for the International Academy of Life Care Planning (IALCP) for the 2016–17 year.