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Media Advisory: UI Partner offices to open at Iowa Western, Western Iowa Tech Jan. 13

Thursday, January 8, 2015
Officials with the University of Iowa will travel to Iowa Western Community College (IWCC) in Council Bluffs and Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC) in Sioux City Jan. 13, to officially launch two new UI Partners offices, which support small business and entrepreneur development.
curator inspects Pollock's Mural

UI Museum of Art breaks participation record

Thursday, January 8, 2015
The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) set an all-time museum record for for participation and attendance at events during the 2013-14 academic year. The UIMA drew 538,260 people, significantly surpassing the previous historical record of 146,470 for 2012-13.

UI recognized for community commitment

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected the UI to receive its 2015 Community Engagement Classification, based on the university's commitment and involvement to the community. The UI has been designated for the first time, and joins 239 other higher-education institutions across the nation for this year’s honor.

UI Hospitals and Clinics plays key role in national effort to improve health care

Wednesday, January 7, 2015
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will participate in a $7 million, three-year project to improve health care coordination between primary care and specialty physicians using e-consult and e-Referral technology.

Community pharmacists find discussing adherence difficult

Researchers from the UI College of Pharmacy have studied what helps and hinders pharmacists using the prescription refill encounter to help patients take medications more safely and effectively; the study was published in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association.

Ihrig receives 2015 NARST Outstanding Paper Award

Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Lori Ihrig, administrator of curriculum and instruction at the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center, has been selected by the National Association for Research Science in Science Teaching (NARST), a world wide organization for improving science teaching and learning through research, for the 2015 NARST Outstanding Paper Award for a conference paper she wrote with Michael...
brain scan

New picture, new insight

Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.
Iowa flags on the field

Ringing in the New Year at the TaxSlayer Bowl

Monday, January 5, 2015
The University of Iowa began 2015 at the TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, enjoying warm temperatures while connecting Hawkeyes from across the country.
Professor Chris Johnson

UI professor moonlights as keyboardist for Grateful Dead cover band

Monday, January 5, 2015
UI ophthalmology professor Chris Johnson keeps his passion for music alive by keyboarding in the local Grateful Dead tribute band “Winterland.”
This is an image of Jackson Pollock's painting called "Mural"

'Mural' among five buzzy museum shows

The Getty Center hosted one of the top exhibits of 2014. The exhibit featured just one work: a newly conserved masterpiece from 1943 by the abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.
University of Iowa professor Adriana Mendez Rodenas

UI professor analyzes Cuba-U.S. diplomatic opening

University of Iowa Spanish and Portuguese professor Adriana Mendez Rodenas, a native of Cuba, discusses the impact of renewed diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba.