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Mock Trial team competes in Big Red Invitational

Friday, February 8, 2013
On Jan. 26 and 27 University of Iowa Mock Trial team 1479 competed in the ninth annual Big Red Invitational Mock Trial tournament hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

UI notifies students about erroneous release of protected information

Thursday, February 7, 2013
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, a document was mistakenly distributed to approximately 2,000 University of Iowa students associated with the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment (CDE) in the Chief Diversity Office that contained their names, number of enrolled credit hours, and grade point averages (GPA).

College of Education symposium highlights diversity research

Thursday, February 7, 2013
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.

DIY History

Thursday, February 7, 2013
Thanks to the public's voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestone for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages transcribed.
Kajsa Dalrymple prepares for an interview.

Lights, camera, action! UI researchers learn how to communicate research

Thursday, February 7, 2013
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.

One Billion Rising

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Iowa City and University of Iowa will join with activists around the world at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, for "One Billion Rising," the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

Virtual vehicle vibrations

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
A UI researcher has designed a computer program that allows engineers to accurately predict the role posture plays in transferring the stress of vehicle motion to bone and muscle in the head and neck.
mens tennis pair

Tennis duo towers over opposition

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
University of Iowa students Michael Swank and Garret Dunn are imposing figures at the net for the UI men's tennis team. Both stand over 6-feet, 7-inches tall, and the two have formed a lethal duo at the No. 1 doubles position for the Hawkeye men's tennis team.
A  UI employees gets rid of food waste to recycle

RecycleMania aids UI sustainability efforts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The University of Iowa has successfully kicked off its participation in the 2013 RecycleMania tournament, the national competition in which college campuses compete over eight weeks to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most on-campus waste.
close up view of elm tree on campus

Campus committed to sustainable forestry

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Arbor Day Foundation has named the University of Iowa a 2012 Tree Campus USA in honor of its commitment to effective community forestry management.
portrait of Debra Schwinn

Music and medicine

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Don't be surprised to find Debra Schwinn, the new dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, in the violin section of the UI Health Care Faculty-Staff Orchestra. Throughout her medical training and academic career, she's found time to pursue her interest in music.

UI researchers: how infants learn to look, look to learn

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Radio features John Spencer and Sammy Perone's University of Iowa psychology research into how infants learn to look and how looking helps them learn.