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Latest Research News
Police need sleep for health, performance
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
University of Iowa researchers have found that police officers who sleep fewer than six hours per night are more susceptible to chronic fatigue and health problems. The findings point to how sleep deprivation, especially among those working the evening and night shifts, may affect public safety and could lead to higher health costs.
Seeing through the clouds
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
University of Iowa scientists have created a technique to help weather monitoring satellites see through the clouds and better estimate concentrations of pollutants.
UI scientists expand social media use
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
University of Iowa investigators are using social media more than ever to connect the public and colleagues with new research developments.
Cohen describes research park plans
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
University of Iowa Vice President for Research Jordan Cohen describes the future of the UI Research Park. (Subscription required.)
21st-century ghost towns
Friday, July 13, 2012
University of Iowa real estate analyst John Gallo says developers will be getting a sweet deal with housing developments left unfinished and unlived-in by the real estate collapse and recession.
Three Fulbright research grants for 2012-13
Friday, July 13, 2012
Three University of Iowa students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research internationally in 2012-13. This year's UI recipients are Lynne Ann Larsen, Andrea Rosenberg, and Sean Tolentino.
Poets and pioneers, writers and rivals
Thursday, July 12, 2012
English faculty member Loren Glass talks about the personalities—and, sometimes, the personality conflicts—that built the University of Iowa community's international standing as a "City of Literature."
Holden Cancer Center seed grants
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Leaders at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced recipients of the first round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.
No control in Congress?
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Prices on the Iowa Electronic Markets show traders believe a Republican takeover of Congress is the most likely outcome of this November’s elections, but they increasingly favor an outcome in which neither party controls a chamber.
UI doctor receives $100,000 vision award
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Arlene Drack, associate professor of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been granted a $100,000 RPB Physician-Scientist Award by Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).
New eyes in the sky
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have developed a new technique to evaluate how aerosol pollutants affect clouds, thereby giving scientists the ability to examine clouds and determine particle concentrations in the atmosphere below. The technique will aid fields such as air quality monitoring, weather forecasting, and climate projection.
Hancher collaborates in jazz experiments
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Hancher is partnering with several other American arts organizations to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012.
Stone receives blindness foundation’s highest research award
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) recently named Edwin Stone, M.D., Ph.D., as the recipient of the Llura Liggett Gund Award, the FFB’s highest research honor.
UI, ISU researchers involved in Higgs studies
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Research teams at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University have long been involved in the experiments at a Swiss research center leading to the potential discovery of a Higgs particle.
Leagues team up to study head injuries
Thursday, July 5, 2012
A University of Iowa sports medicine expert is hopeful that a collaboration between the Big Ten Conference and Ivy League will shed new light on a peril of athletics that is becoming increasingly more high profile.
Cystic fibrosis makes airways more acidic, reduces bacterial killing
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Using a unique animal model of cystic fibrosis, a team of scientists from the University of Iowa has discovered a difference between healthy airways and airways affected by cystic fibrosis that leads to reduced bacterial killing in cystic fibrosis airways.
UI experts available to comment on potential CERN news
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Physicists searching for the elusive Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are expected to share their latest findings July 4.
Political perceptions: email fundraising, too forward?
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
David Perlmutter, director of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, comments on presidential campaigns communicating via email.
Hidden portals in Earth's magnetic field
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Jack Scudder, a University of Iowa professor of physics and astronomy, has discovered how to find magnetic portals in space.
UI participates in free e-book pilot program
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The University of Iowa is one of 50 institutions that has joined a study on using e-textbooks. UI researchers from Information Technology Services and the College of Education will focus on the use of online annotation tools.
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