Faculty

College of Engineering shares in prestigious IIE Heiskell Award

Friday, January 29, 2016
The University of Iowa India Winterim study abroad program is recipient of the prestigious 2016 Institute of International Education Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education.
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A new chapter in library storage

Friday, January 29, 2016
The UI Libraries is equipping a new storage facility to house items that rarely circulate. To prepare for the move, items stored at the current Libraries Annex will be unavailable for retrieval beginning January 2016. However, users may access another copy of a stored item through UBorrow.
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From mother to child, passing on disease

Thursday, January 28, 2016
UI researchers are reminding U.S. doctors to watch for two vector-borne and potentially life-threatening diseases that can be passed from mother to child. Though Chagas' disease and Leishmaniasis are generally found in other parts of the world, global travel and migration have made the U.S. vulnerable.
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A cystic fibrosis mystery solved

Thursday, January 28, 2016
A University of Iowa study has answered why mice with cystic fibrosis gene mutations don’t develop the life-threatening lung disease. The researchers also identified a proton pump called ATP12A as a potential target for new CF therapies.
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UI chemists uncover how key agent allows diseases to reproduce

Thursday, January 28, 2016
University of Iowa chemists have revealed the chemistry behind how certain diseases, from anthrax to tuberculosis, replicate. The key lies in the function of a gene absent in humans, called thyX, and its ability to catalyze the DNA building block thymine. Results published in the journal 'Science.'

Nathan Holton comments on a real chin-scratcher

UI orthodontics professor Nathan Holton comments on the evolution of the human chin.
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Talking political philosophy and freedom

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Philosophy professor Richard Fumerton, selected to deliver the 33rd Annual Presidential Lecture, will address a topic people in this country, and many people elsewhere, are interested in: freedom.

Putting the 'move' in 'the environmental movement'

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Senior Sophia Finster is utilizing art's powerful potential for communication, moving people to change their impact on Earth every day.
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UI unveils second Theme Semester: Just Living

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
UI leaders ask campus and community to engage in thoughtful discussion and understanding of differences.

McCarty selected for 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Society internship

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
University of Iowa student, Nicholas McCarthy, to write for prestigious academic honor society.
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UI Press book collects caucus work of cartoonist

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
In an age when political cartoonists, and indeed all journalists, are feeling the pinch of tightening newspaper budgets, the University of Iowa Press has come out with a title that highlights both the editorial format and the state of Iowa.

Cohen shares how InterPlay is a great creative exercise

Mary Cohen, UI associate professor of music education, shares how everyone can learn skills to express themselves through music-making, storytelling, and movement. InterPlay is one remarkable system providing incremental steps toward self-expression in any way we choose, Cohen explains.