Tippie News

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Calm, cool, collected

Sunday, November 22, 2020
Allie Gilchrist is a Hawkeye gymnast specializing on the balance beam and floor exercises. The junior accounting student has a 4.11 GPA, which has earned her a spot as a 2020 Academic All-Big Ten and a Distinguished Big Ten Scholar. We caught up with her to ask about life in the classroom and Carver-Hawkeye arena.
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Four Questions for Laura Newinski

Sunday, November 22, 2020
As deputy chair and COO of KPMG U.S., Laura Newinski (BBA87) helps lead a firm focused on delivering top-notch audit, tax, and advisory services to clients in dozens of industries around the world. Growing up in Eldridge, Iowa, a small town near the Quad Cities, Newinski says she didn’t understand what a career in business would offer, and she credits her Tippie professors, her job in the...
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Welcome to the family: meet our four new accounting faculty members

Sunday, November 22, 2020
Meet the new four new accounting faculty members Dain Donelson, Adrienne Rhodes, Michael Durney, and Claire Quinto.
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Virtual reality: A look back at 2020

Sunday, November 22, 2020
2020 has been a year like no other. Undoubtedly, every single member of the Hawkeye family has felt the effects of COVID-19 in one way or another.
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CPA exams: How Jake Schafer clinched the Elijah Watt Sells and Capstone Awards

Sunday, November 22, 2020
When it comes to CPA exam performance, Tippie students don’t mess around. We talked with Jake Schafer (BBA19), now an associate at PwC in Los Angeles, about just how he managed to clinch an Elijah Watt Sells Award (requiring a 95.5+ cumulative average) and a Capstone Award (top 4 exam results in Iowa) in 2019.
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The Daily Iowan: Amy Kristof-Brown named new dean of University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

Since serving as interim dean of the college beginning in March, Amy Kristof-Brown, who has been a faculty member within the college for over 20 years, will take on the role as the new dean beginning Dec. 1.
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Corridor Business Journal: UI's Tippie College elevates acting dean to permanent role

Amy Kristof-Brown, who has served as interim dean of the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business since March 1, will become the college's permanent dean, UI officials announced today.
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Nicole Thorne Jenkins begins her tenure as the dean of the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Nicole Thorne Jenkins begins her tenure as the dean of the University of McIntire School of Commerce
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Amy Kristof-Brown named dean of the Tippie College of Business

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Today, Amy Kristof-Brown has been named dean of the Tippie College of Business, pending approval of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. Kristof-Brown has been serving as the college’s interim dean since March 2020 and will begin her new role on December 1, 2020.
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Doctoral student wins Bayer Women in Operations Research Scholarship

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Sara Reed, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Business Analytics at the University of Iowa, won first place and an honorable mention award in the Bayer Women in Operations Research Scholarship competition.