Faculty
Cameron discusses empathy as a choice
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
UI assistant professor Daryl Cameron and his research colleagues believe that empathy is only as limited as people choose it to be. "The 'limits' to our empathy are merely apparent, and can change, sometimes drastically, depending on what we want to feel," they write in a recent editorial.
UI's Saba Ali shares education's role in career placement and preparation
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Saba Ali, UI College of Education associate professor, speaks with Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about education's role in career placement and preparation as part of an Iowa at Work series.
Wurster receives alum award from Purdue
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Dale Wurster, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and experimental therapeutics in the UI College of Pharmacy, was recognized earlier this spring with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University.
UI summer program gives hands-on research experience to high school students
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Max Otoadese is one of 39 high school students from across the state, nation, and world pursuing hands-on science at the UI this summer, thanks to the College of Education Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program. The rigorous, five-week residential research program also provides 3 semester hours of college credit.
The people honored with named buildings
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Numerous individuals have made a significant impact on the University of Iowa and have been honored with a facility in their name. The UI Facilities Management website houses a directory of said individuals; visitors can read about the honorees' achievements, view their pictures, and learn more about the buildings.
Students net hands-on experience at Mississippi River research station
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Students at the Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station plunge into science with a field-based water quality class.
Conducting research on Indian tea plantations
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Maya Ramaswamy and Josie Rudolphi, two students in the UI College of Public Health, are conducting a research study involving tea plantation workers in a hill region in South India. Their research goal: to improve production methods and workers' quality of life.
Old Gold: Iowa alumna key in Chicago’s African American literary movement
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Margaret Walker’s poetry collection "For My People" received top honors in the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1942. UI archivist David McCartney says the work is as timely now as it was then.
Ice cream helps teach entrepreneurialism at UI youth camp
Friday, July 10, 2015
Elementary school students at a camp sponsored by UI's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center learned about building business by creating a new ice cream flavor with Iowa City's Heyn's Ice Cream.
College of Education scholars publish paper addressing needs of military children
Friday, July 10, 2015
Frank Sories, Candice Maier, Andrew Beer, and Volker Thomas of the UI College of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education published "Addressing the Needs of Military Children Through Family-Based Play Therapy" in the June 2015 issue of Contemporary Family Therapy.
Wood edits 'Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings'
Friday, July 10, 2015
Susannah M. Wood, a College of Education associate professor in Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, edited Serving Gifted Students in Rural Settings, along with Tamra Stambaugh, an assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University.
Duys receives National Career Development Association Merit Award
Friday, July 10, 2015
David Duys, a University of Iowa College of Education associate professor of Rehabilitation and Counselor Education, recently received the NCDA Merit Award at the National Career Development Association conference in Denver, Colorado.
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