Walker Homestead Farm and Winery in Johnson County took root nearly 2,000 miles away, when Bob and Kristy Walker, both professors at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, were on a trip to Sonoma County, Calif.

Rong Su, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and Pioneer Research Fellow in the Tippie College of Business, has been named one of the five inaugural recipients of a University of Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award.

Dan Collins, who grew up on a farm near Albion and graduated from Marshalltown High School, is set to retire as an accounting professor at the University of Iowa at the end of the school year after 42 years on the faculty.

Leaving the S&P 400 index for the S&P 500 has been bad news for a firm’s stock value in recent years, according to a new study from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, while leaving the 500 for the 400 has been good.