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Retired volunteers help UI students gain patient practice

KCRG: Retired volunteers help UI students gain patient practice
Published: 
2013.04.04
AN RSVP volunteer works with a UI nursing student so he can gain practice

UI nursing, medical, and pharmacy students work with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, where senior citizens volunteer to play the roles of patients, which helps students gain valuable experience. Story from: KCRG

KCRG

UI pharmacy professor to launch dementia study

Omaha World-Herald: UI pharmacy professor to launch dementia study
Published: 
2013.04.05

Ryan Carnahan, a University of Iowa pharmacy professor, will launch a dementia study with support from a new federal agency created by the Affordable Care Act. Story from: Omaha World-Herald

Omaha World-Herald

UI study finds drinking, drugs more common for kids of deployed

Chicago Tribune: UI study finds drinking, drugs more common for kids of deployed
Published: 
2013.04.03

Teens and preteens with a parent deployed in the military may be more likely to binge drink or misuse prescription drugs, according to a new study led by senior author Stephan Arndt, a psychiatry researcher at the University of Iowa. Story from: Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

UI psychiatry professor comments on compulsive shoppers

The Daily Beast: UI psychiatry professor comments on compulsive shoppers
Published: 
2013.03.28
Friday Night Lights author and columnist Buzz Bissinger confessed to a shopping addiction in a recent GQ article. (Michael Loccisano/Getty)

Donald Black, professor of psychiatry at the UI’s Carver College of Medicine, says that most compulsive shoppers are not famous or wealthy, just ordinary people with an unusual problem, in a shopping addiction story, featuring Buzz Bissinger, who recently checked into rehab. Story from: The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast

Schott says Latinos help with workforce shortage

CBN News: Schott says Latinos help with workforce shortage
Published: 
2013.04.01
a Latino man talks while in a grocery store

Jeff Schott, director of the UI's Institute of Public Affairs, says that communities that welcome Hispanics and other immigrants reap economic benefits and that communities should see this as an opportunity to address work force shortages. Story from: CBN News

CBN News

Warrior Challenge raises money to help veterans

KWWL: Warrior Challenge raises money to help veterans
Published: 
2013.03.30
UI student veterans participate in the 2nd Annual Warrior Challenge by doing sit ups during the race.

More than $7,000 was raised to help veterans during the Second Annual Warrior Challenge and 5K, organized by the University of Iowa Veterans Association, which included an obstacle course, a tire flip, a 5K, and more. Story from: KWWL

KWWL

UI's McGehee says adults more open about texting-while-driving

Des Moines Register: UI's McGehee says adults more open about texting-while-driving
Published: 
2013.03.28
Iowa lawmaker crashes car in texting demonstration: Iowa state Rep. Phyllis Thede, D-Bettendorf, takes part in AT&T's It Can Wait demonstration on the dangers of texting and driving at the Iowa Capitol on Wednesday.

Daniel McGehee, director of the Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Program at the University of Iowa, says adults are more open than teens about texting-while-driving because they don't fear reprisals and figure they don't have anything to lose. Story from: Des Moines Register

Des Moines Register

UI students leave Las Vegas to work on reimagining downtown

Las Vegas Sun: UI students leave Las Vegas to work on reimagining downtown
Published: 
2013.03.27
owa college students gather together to discuss their innovative ideas for their course study “Reimagining Downtown Las Vegas” led by Associate Director Dave Gould, center, at Work In Progress in Las Vegas Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/mar/27/iowa-students-leave-vegas-task-making-impact-impre/#ixzz2OquwvNfJ

A group of UI students spent spring break in Las Vegas working on a class project with UI Associate Director David Gould to re-imagine the downtown area. Many of the students say they overcame their initial fears and stereotypes of the city and could envision living there. Story from: Las Vegas Sun

Las Vegas Sun

Hunnicutt discusses lack of leisure time for working adults

WBEZ: Hunnicutt discusses lack of leisure time for working adults
Published: 
2013.03.26
A scene of two chairs on a sandy beach

Ben Hunnicutt, UI leisure studies professor and author of "Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream," discusses the drop in leisure time and how thinkers from Whitman to Henry Luce were convinced that leisure time was considered an essential component of the American Dream. Story from: WBEZ

WBEZ

UI's rec center pegged third 'most amazing' in the country

Iowa City Press-Citizen: UI's rec center pegged third 'most amazing' in the country
Published: 
2013.03.26
An exterior photo of the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center

A website that ranks colleges on various points has pegged the University of Iowa’s Campus Recreation and Wellness Center the third “most amazing” campus student recreation center in the country. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.) Story from: Iowa City Press-Citizen

Iowa City Press-Citizen

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