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Johna Leddy, associate professor of chemistry, explored improving electrochemical systems such as batteries and fuels to make them more efficient energy sources as a Fall 2013 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence.

More than 100 eighth-graders spent a day at the UI hosted by the College of Education with support from 20 other departments, the culmination of a seven-week long UI program designed to introduce careers in the health sciences to rural Iowa students.

Every spring, the UI Women's Resource and Action Center offers an intensive, five-day institute that educates college women about the political process and teaches them effective leadership skills. Students of all majors are encouraged to apply; the deadline is Feb. 20.

This year’s UI Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights includes a Day of Service focused on hunger and homelessness, a unity walk and tribute on the Pentacrest, and a lecture by journalist, documentarian, and TV news producer Soledad O’Brien.

The planets aligned fortunately for UI adjunct professor and playwright Janet Schlapkohl, who used her family history, her own background as a special education teacher, and the knowledge of identical twin sisters who were excellent actresses to create My Sister.

Professors typically use professional development leave from teaching to advance research, publish books, develop new course materials, or even launch a rocket—as UI physicist Craig Kletzing is planning to do during his assignment next fall.

West Liberty middle school students spent Friday at the UI for the culmination of a seven-week College of Education program that involved collaborations with all 11 UI colleges, focused on promoting STEM-based careers in rural Iowa middle schools with a large population of minority students.

The University of Iowa’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Every Atom: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, organized by the UI International Writing Program (IWP), offers participants everywhere the opportunity to read, consider, and discuss Whitman’s epic poem, and is free and open to anyone with an Internet connection.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa offers various programs and services to help UI students land internships at Iowa companies. The internships help students obtain career and professional experience and, in some cases, can lead to full-time jobs.

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson of the UI Writers' Workshop will visit the UAE as part of a cultural exchange program, during which she will discuss creative writing with university students and discuss her work with Emirati authors and readers.