Phil Brooks Relishes Resources Peter Berg—A Recent Graduate Gamma Iota Sigma Launches Dr. Terri VaughanNamed NAIC's UI Professor Finds a Way to Make 
Leverty Receives Collegiate Students Win Scholarships to Raftis Awarded Scholarship Welcome, Finnegan Archie Leverty 
By contributing resources to the Vaughan Institute, you will help ensure an ongoing positive impact on our students and the risk management and insurance industry. Your gift will provide critical support for the programs and activities of the Institute, including scholarships, funds to send students to conferences, faculty fellowships, research, and other operational aspects of the Institute. Your generosity will build on a solid foundation of leadership in education and research within the field of risk management and insurance. 
Larry Hershberger, Director Viana Rockel, Associate Director Tami Baumann, Executive Director |
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Donna Pearcy has brought risk management to a new level of awareness.
The adjunct lecturer for the Vaughan Institute serves as the University’s chief risk officer. As such, Donna has been the leading staff member in planning for and responding to the 2008 flood. On April 1—almost a year after flood-planning meetings began—Donna received the Distinguished Leadership Award at the annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women held at the Old Capitol. 
Phil Brooks is busy enough practicing business law as a member of Simmons, Perrine, Moyer, & Bergman, PLC. But once a week, he gladly pays forward what he learned from Institute founder Emmett J. Vaughan by engaging students in his life and health and property and liability courses. Brooks holds an MBA in insurance and risk management from The University of Iowa as well as a law degree from Creighton University. 
As an undergraduate student majoring in finance, Peter Berg was one of the first students to recognize the value of the Certificate of Risk Management and Insurance offered at the Tippie College of Business. Before long, Peter took a leadership role as a founding member in Gamma Iota Sigma, the RMI-focused student organization, and served the organization as vice president of industry relations. 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Jan. 15, 2009) — Former Iowa Insurance Commissioner Therese M. (Terri) Vaughan, Ph.D., has been named Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), effective Feb. 18, 2009. Vaughan serves as the association’s primary representative and chief spokesperson in Washington, D.C. In addition, her responsibilities include outreach to federal governmental entities and state government associations, as well as consumer and insurance industry representatives. 
The University of Iowa helped Tom Veale
bring his "California dream" to life. After
graduating with a UI accounting degree
in 1980, the aspiring business leader
headed west, where he landed eight
job interviews — and eight offers — thanks to the quality of his Iowa
business education. Veale is demonstrating his gratitude to his alma mater with a generous $250,000 gift for the Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance. 
| Certificate Enrollment, Spring 2009 | |
| 68 | Enrolled to complete the 24-credit hour curriculum |
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| Course Enrollments, Academic Year 2008-09 | |
| 292 | Principles of Risk Management and Insurance |
| 65 | Corporate Financial Risk Management |
| 40 | Life and Health Insurance |
| 63 | Employee Benefit Plans |
| 44 | Property and Liability Insurance |
| Graduates | |
| 6 | Prior to Academic Year 2007-08 |
| 22 | Academic Year 2007-08 |
| 30 | Academic Year 2008-09 |