Business Insurance magazine has ranked the UI Tippie College of Business as having the nation’s third-largest risk management and insurance undergraduate program in its 2025 survey. The program, now in its third year, enrolled 350 undergraduate students as of October 2025. Jim Lewis, director of Tippie’s Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance, was quoted

UI business analytics professor Jeff Ohlmann is studying crowdshipping, where customers — who are not store employees — would be asked to deliver merchandise ordered online in exchange for a gift card or other incentive. He says they’d first need to be registered and screened.

UI political science professor Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, an expert on international conflict and cooperation, appeared on the station's Talking History podcast.

UI finance professor Erik Lie discussed his pioneering research into options backdating, his new book Hatching Cheats, and how forensic finance can detect hidden misconduct on the publication's Drinks with The Deal podcast.

Students across all majors at the University of Iowa can explore the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence through a new undergraduate certificate program. The foundational course, Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals, is now open for spring registration and offers a hands-on introduction to commercial AI tools alongside critical discussions on ethical and responsible use.

Kang Zhao, Leonard A. Hadley professor of business analytics and department executive officer, has been named the new associate dean of the Tippie College of Business.

The Innovation Awards highlight, recognize, and celebrate exemplary nurse innovators who improve patient safety and health outcomes within their communities.

A longtime University of Iowa initiative has been recognized by a leading national organization for its excellence and exemplary best practices. Campus Compact, the largest national coalition of colleges and universities dedicated to community engagement, has bestowed its Excellence in Community-Engaged Partnership Award on the Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC).

Jun Wang, University of Iowa’s Lichtenberger Family Chair in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, was awarded the 2024 Joanne Simpson Medal for mid-career scientists in recognition of significant contributions to Earth and space science.

The Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) recently accepted four participants for its spring 2025 Grant Writing Residency Program.