Launched in 2012, the MAP-Works survey offers a new way to proactively address UI student concerns. It’s helping the university keep students enrolled, make education affordable, and enhance overall student success. Story
The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History is offering two storytime events geared toward elementary-aged children and their families in mid-March. Cuentos en el Museo (Spanish Storytime) will be offered Saturday, March 16, at 10:30 a.m. Storytime Adventures will be offered Sunday, March 17, at 3 p.m. Story
In a move to promote adoption of culturally legitimate evidence-based addictions treatment and recovery services to American Indians and Alaska Natives throughout the United States, the University of Iowa College of Public Health has established the National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center (N AI & AN ATTC). Story
High school students from across the state are presenting their best STEM research at the UI College of Education Belin Blank Center's Annual Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)
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Wilton High School junior Maxwell Roth will spend his senior year of high school living at the UI pursuing a career in biomedical engineering thanks to an early entrance honors program through the UI Belin-Blank Center's National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.
Story from: Muscatine Journal
Donald Black, UI professor of psychiatry, says that the behaviors displayed by people on the reality TV show Extreme Couponing could be considered variants of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Story from: Bloomberg Business Week
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus D.A. Powell won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, honored for Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys. The awards were announced Feb. 28 in New York City.
Story from: Los Angeles Times
University of Iowa doctoral student and Missouri Valley native Erin O'Gara was featured on The Big Ten Network for a video she created, Putting Babies First, as the first Health Communications Fellow with the State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI.
Story from: MIssouri Valley Times-News
The University of Iowa School of Music will present free performances by the University Band and Concert Band at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 11, in the Second-Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union. Story
A University of Iowa study shows women's feet do indeed change from pregnancy. Why? Arch height and rigidity decrease in early pregnancy, causing increases in foot length that appear to be permanent. Results appear in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Story
