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McGehee says cameras make impact on motorists' behaviors

Published
2013.03.11

Daniel McGehee, director of the University of Iowa’s Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Division, comments on the impact of surveillance cameras in vehicles in a story on how Des Moines will soon install such cameras in city vehicles. Story from: Des Moines Register

Des Moines Register

UI's Spak, Osterberg discuss new Iowa landfill system

Published
2013.02.14
Tires in a landfill

Scott Spak, assistant director of environmental policy at the UI Public Policy Center, discusses water quality problems in landfills, and David Osterberg, clinical associate professor in the College of Public Health, comments on recycling. Story from: Iowa Watch

Iowa Watch

Ethical considerations in the health care debate

Public Policy Center director and College of Dentistry faculty member Peter Damiano presents at the next "Finding God at Iowa" forum Friday, Oct. 12, at noon in the Ohio State Room (343) in the Iowa Memorial Union. Story

Damiano discusses child health

Iowa Public Radio: Damiano discusses child health
Published
2012.08.21
children

Pete Damiano of the UI Public Policy Center discusses the new UI children's health and wellbeing survey. Story from: Iowa Public Radio

Iowa Public Radio

UI survey: Kids in Iowa are happier, safer

Published
2012.08.15

A new study by the University of Iowa's Public Policy Center finds that Iowa children feel healthier, happier, and safer than children do nationally. Story from: San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

Vulnerability and interdependence

Lecture will look at the intertwined economic fortunes of Postville, Iowa, and El Rosario, Guatemala after the May 2008 immigration raid on a Postville meatpacking facility. Story

Miller-Meeks to lecture on health care policy April 11

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will speak as this week’s Policy Matters’ guest lecturer on the topic of health care policy at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in the University of Iowa Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium. Story

Making the impossible possible

Community activist, MacArthur Fellow, and author Bill Strickland will visit the University of Iowa and Iowa City community April 2 and 3. Story

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