Faculty
UI names outstanding teaching assistants
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The University of Iowa recently named the recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Bus stops and traffic rerouted on Grand Avenue due to utility project
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Bus stops and traffic will be rerouted on Grand Avenue due to utility project Sunday, May 3 until August 2015.
UI studies safer road use by texting pedestrians
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
University of Iowa experts are conducting research to determine whether college students and others will pay attention to a system that alerts individuals to potential traffic danger as they are texting and walking along roadways.
DeLTA Center celebrates new home, interdisciplinary research
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research community at the University of Iowa, will recognize research from the past year during its third annual DeLTA Day celebration Friday, May 1, at the Athletic Hall of Fame.
Discovery Trunks aid archaeology education
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Elizabeth Reetz, education and outreach program director in the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, talks about Discovery Trunks, a teaching kit for educators that provides tools to teach about different periods of the state’s archaeological history.
Schmidt receives award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Frank Schmidt, emeritus professor of management sciences in the Tippie College of Business, received the first Dunnette Prize from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
UI launches resource page to spur, support collaboration
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
To help University of Iowa researchers connect with potential funding sources and with one another within and beyond their disciplines and institution, the UI Division of Sponsored Programs in the Office of Research and Economic Development has launched a new collaboration resource page.
The brain of a tinnitus sufferer
Monday, April 27, 2015
UI neuroscience researcher, Phillip Gander, discusses findings from a rare opportunity to record directly from the brain of a person with tinnitus, which shed light on the brain networks responsible for this condition.
Study finds swine farming is a risk factor for drug-resistant staph infections
Monday, April 27, 2015
A new study led by the University of Iowa shows swine farmers are six times more likely to be carriers of staph bacteria, including the MRSA strain, than others. Results appear online in the journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases."
UI opens doors for distance education student in Bettendorf
Monday, April 27, 2015
Bettendorf resident Ellonyia Yenney, who will obtain a Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) and a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management from the UI, says that obtaining a bachelor's degree will help bring credibility to her years in the working world and open more doors professionally.
Turns out satellites work great for mapping earthquakes
Monday, April 27, 2015
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have shown a faster way to use data to assess fault lines, turning over reports in as little as a day to help guide rapid responses to catastrophic quakes, such as the recent disaster in Nepal.
Preeclampsia research launches UI into new national network
Monday, April 27, 2015
The University of Iowa has been working for years to find a cure for preeclampsia. That ongoing research has led the university to a spot in a four-center Strategically Focused Network on Hypertension created by the American Heart Association (AHA).
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