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UI JPEC enters new phase, plans to honor John Pappajohn

By: Eleanor Hildebrandt|August 3, 2023
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    • UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center Executive Director David Hensley, UI President Barbara J. Wilson, and John Pappajohn

    UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center executive director David Hensley, UI President Barbara J. Wilson and John Pappajohn. are shown at the 25th anniversary celebration of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Centers Sept. 23, 2021, at Marriott Des Moines Downtown in Des Moines, CREDIT DARREN MILLER/IOWA JPEC

    After nearly 30 years of weathering the constantly changing entrepreneurial landscape, the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (UI JPEC) is entering a new, transitional phase. 

    The center lost its namesake, Iowa entrepreneur and philanthropist John Pappajohn, in April 2023. His wife, Mary Pappajohn, died in March 2022, only a month after UI Tippie College of Business namesake Henry B. Tippie passed. 

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