Faculty
Bruhn publishes in Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Allison L. Bruhn, of the College of Education, published “Using a Changing-Criterion Design to Evaluate the Effects of Check-in/Check-Out With Goal Modification” in May.
University of Iowa to celebrate milestone in 2008 flood recovery efforts
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
For the first time since it was immersed in floodwater seven years ago, the University of Iowa Memorial Union ground floor will be open to the public. University and local officials will commemorate the re-opening of the 83,000-square-foot space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by self-guided tours on June 3.
UI driving simulator to help test new artificial lens for cataract patients
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
A miniature version of the University of Iowa’s advanced driving simulator will participate in a clinical trial later this year to assess a patient’s driving ability after cataract surgery.
Simple interventions can reduce surgical site infections
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
A multi-center study led by infection control experts with UI Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent.
UI TIER update: June 1
Monday, June 1, 2015
As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across business cases.
UI technology to study ocean on Jupiter moon
Monday, June 1, 2015
Radar technology from the UI will help a new NASA mission look for the building blocks of life on a distant moon.
Bacteria may cause Type 2 diabetes
Monday, June 1, 2015
A UI study shows that chronic exposure to a toxin made by staph bacteria produces in rabbits the hallmark symptoms of Type 2 diabetes, including insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. The findings suggest that eliminating staph bacteria or neutralizing the toxins might have potential for preventing or treating the disease.
Early arrival: Baby born prematurely at 29 weeks is now thriving
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
UI Children's Hospital is home to Iowa's only nationally ranked neonatology program—reassuring news for a Cedar Rapids family.
UI researchers find ending Medicaid dental benefit costly
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
An UI study finds states gain little when dropping adult dental coverage. Researchers say adults in California made 1,800 more hospital visits annually for dental care after losing the benefit. California spent $2.9 million each year, 68 percent more before eliminating the benefit. Results in the journal Health Affairs.
UI teams up with NSF to turn inventions into businesses
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
The University of Iowa has teamed up with the National Science Foundation to establish a program for accelerating commercialization of technologies developed by student and faculty inventors and entrepreneurs, especially those developed by women.
Rural teachers, students seek AP classes
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Small schools in rural communities often have a hard time finding enough students and teachers to offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes. In Iowa, the state has worked to deal with the problem by offering online AP classes through the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center.
University of Iowa to require engineers get ‘creative'
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The University of Iowa College of Engineering will require that all new undergraduate students take at least three semesters of creative art credit to earn an engineering degree, beginning in fall 2015.
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