Impact

Hometown Hawkeye: Kelsey Hollingshead

Monday, October 28, 2013
Rural Iowans are quickly losing access to legal services as aging attorneys retire and close their small practices, leaving a void that younger lawyers aren’t rushing to fill. But University of Iowa College of Law graduate Kelsey Hollingshead went against that grain, starting her career in the summer of 2013 as a solo practitioner in Britt (population: 2,000) under the wing of a local attorney.

The decision, the surgery, the result

Monday, October 28, 2013
Shelby Rheinschmidt is your normal teenager, except she just got a cochlear implant. Not just any cochlear implant—a hybrid cochlear implant, as part of a trial pioneered at the University of Iowa. Follow her journey from the decision, through the surgery, to the turning the implant on.

UIMA lecture focuses on New Deal works of art

Monday, October 28, 2013
Works of art created during the New Deal are the subject of a free public lecture to be presented by Ann Prentice Wagner on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in 240 Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus.
construction site

Unexpected discoveries made at future UI music facility

Monday, October 28, 2013
Construction crews set to build the future UI music building stumbled upon pieces of Iowa City’s past this month when workers found several pieces of historic artifacts, which archaeologists then spent a week excavating.
student painting piece of lounge furniture

UI 3-D design students get chance to shine in Chicago

Monday, October 28, 2013
A group of UI 3-D design students has been selected to exhibit their work at Structural Objects Functional Art + Design, known as SOFA, an art fair in Chicago that attracts close to 34,000 people each year.

UI studies used by national health-care analysis group

Friday, October 25, 2013
A collection of 13 studies by the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa is being used by the Commonwealth Fund for its analysis of the local impacts of the federal Affordable Care Act.

Achievements: UI faculty, staff, students, and alumni making news

Friday, October 25, 2013
University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

UI alumna recognized as innovative teacher

Friday, October 25, 2013
University of Iowa College of Education alumna Rachel DeMaris has earned the Iowa Children’s Museum’s second-annual Robert E. Yager Active Learning Award, which recognizes Iowa teachers who provide students “opportunities to become engaged learners, innovative thinkers, and creative problem-solvers.”
Jerre and Mary Joy Stead

Maquoketa natives give $10M toward children's medicine at Iowa

Friday, October 25, 2013
A second $10 million gift commitment from former Maquoketa, Iowa, residents Jerre and Mary Joy Stead to improve children's medicine at the University of Iowa will create four new faculty chairs and establish funds to support innovation and leadership development.
UI Health Care Iowa River Landing clinic building

UI Hospitals and Clinics: More visits in first year with Iowa River Landing

Friday, October 25, 2013
Total visits to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are up this year over last year, with patients for the first time being distributed between the main hospital, Quick Care clinics, and the new Iowa River Landing site.

Nabhan-Warren to read from new book Nov. 3

Friday, October 25, 2013
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, associate professor of religious studies in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will read from her new book, "The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality," at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.
Grace Lidgett

Traer, Iowa, girl, 8, is Kid Captain when Hawkeyes host Northwestern Saturday

Friday, October 25, 2013
Grace Lidgett, 8, was just 14 months old when she was referred to UI Children’s Hospital. She started showing allergy symptoms and had difficulty growing. The family learned she has cystic fibrosis—a genetic disorder that causes her body to produce thick, sticky mucus that clogs her organs.