Are you ready to groove? The next free concert in the Arts Share/Community Foundation of Johnson County series will provide just the opportunity. “Groovin’ With Iowa Percussion,” led by University of Iowa School of Music faculty member Dan Moore, will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. Story
University of Iowa College of Nursing Professor Joann "Jo" Eland and 18 students provided a helping hand in India over the winter break as part of a class that provides hospice and palliative care overseas.
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A University of Iowa team showed that the amygdala is not the only gatekeeper of fear in the human mind in a paper published recently in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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The annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Symposium, hosted by the College of Education’s Diversity Committee and sponsored by the UI Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, celebrates College of Education student research focused on diversity and service. Awards were given for the top five projects. Story
The UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) is helping faculty and graduate students learn how to effectively communicate their research. The project involves producing short videos, with CGRER staff help. Story
Jerry Anthony, director of the UI Public Policy Center's housing and land use policy program, says that a free map was designed to make Iowa foreclosure data easily accessible and understandable.
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John Wemmie, a UI neuroscientist, shares insights from an experiment on how SM, a woman with a rare illness that damaged her amygdala and left her unafraid, recently experienced a panic attack, which may have practical value in the study of panic attacks.
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Research shows that there is not one profession whose clients and customers wouldn’t benefit from their service providers having received multicultural training. When it comes to having a diverse population to serve, I believe educators are at the top of the list of those in this category.
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Researchers at the University of Iowa say the human brain has a new, second gatekeeper that registers fear. The region, perhaps the brainstem, diencephalon or insular cortex, signals fear from internal dangers. The finding could lead to more precise treatment for people suffering from panic attacks and other anxiety disorders. Results appear in "Nature Neuroscience." Story
The University of Iowa has created a map showing foreclosures, county by county, spanning the recession. The data are made available for the first time free to Iowans. Story
