2013.05.01 | By Bill Adams and Lin Larson | 11:55 AM
University of Iowa President Sally Mason opened her doors to groups of UI undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, fielding questions on just about every topic facing a university leader. Photo Feature
NASA and the University of Iowa's Iowa Flood Center are partnering on research that test how well satellites in space measure rainfall on earth.
Story from: Cedar Rapids Gazette
Two anonymous UI Tippie College of Business professors have started a random acts of kindness coffee club, encouraging students, faculty, and staff to give each other free drinks.
Story from: The Daily Iowan
This spring, the UI has a new tool to discover where students want to see improvements—Tell Us, an online survey currently open to all undergraduates. Story
As part of the second annual Phil’s Day, University of Iowa alumna Janice Ellig (1968 B.B.A.) will present a guest lecture, "Life with Phil," at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. Story
University of Iowa Chief Diversity Officer Georgina Dodge discusses the impact of NBA player Jason Collins' announcement that he is gay.
Story from: KGAN TV
Rodney Ewing, an academic and longtime campaigner for a cautious, sensible approach to nuclear waste disposal, will speak at the University of Iowa at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Ewing’s talk, to be held in Room W151 in the Pappajohn Business Building, comes amid conflicting views on the role of nuclear energy in a so-called green economy, balanced with the safety of reactors and the safe storage of nuclear waste. Story
Iowans who sympathized with the Confederacy during the Civil War are the subject of a free public lecture from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, in the Senate Chamber of the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum. Story
Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from "Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness," at 7 p.m. Friday, May 10, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story
