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A young man poses for his photo outdoors on a sunny day.Anthony Ferguson started a community organization, Young, Black, and Educated. Photo by Bill Adams.
Young, Black, and Educated
Published: 2013.05.15 | By Betsy Bates | 7:00 AM
Published: 2013.05.15
By Betsy Bates
7:00 AM
Junior Anthony Ferguson initially came to the University of Iowa in the fall of 2011 to play for the Hawkeye football team. However, after one season, he felt a calling to something greater. He left the team and created a community organization, Young, Black, and Educated. Story
 

Reinforcing a commitment to the public

Published: 
2013.03.11 | By Kelli Andresen | 07:00 AM
Nick Benson

Nick Benson, coordinator of the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC), is making new connections between the University of Iowa and Iowa communities. Benson is working to expand the IISC into a campus-wide initiative. The IISC recently formalized agreements with four Iowa communities for the 2013-2014 academic year: Muscatine, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, and Washington. Story

Righting Yugoslavia's wrongs

Published: 
2013.03.08 | By Tom Snee | 10:43 AM

Three University of Iowa law students are spending the spring semester as externs at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, helping to try former leaders accused of war crimes during the Balkan's civil wars in the 1990s. Story

What's in your water?

Published: 
2013.03.08 | By Pat Blake | 09:45 AM
chemis in lab, testing water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires public utilities to monitor the water supply for specific contaminants that may pose a risk to human health. The State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI is the only state environmental public health laboratory approved to test for all 28 chemicals on the EPA's new list of contaminants. Story

Striking a chord with the youth set

Published: 
2013.03.08 | By Sara Epstein Moninger | 09:34 AM
Portrait of musician and UI alumnus Ralph Covert

When musician Ralph Covert performs before an audience, belting out tunes such as "I'm Not Tired" and "Puddle of Mud," the throngs of adoring fans tend to be those under 10. The Grammy-nominated UI graduate has recorded 10 albums in the genre of children's music with his band Ralph's World, and now he is delving into children's television. Story

UI offers summer study scholarship for first-year Iowa students

Published: 
2013.03.07 | By Lin Larson | 04:33 PM
Student laying on grass reading a book.

A new scholarship available to first-year University of Iowa students starting this year aims to help students complete their undergraduate degrees in four years. Story

Rec Services offers Zumba party, survival camping programs

Published: 
2013.03.07 | By University Communication and Marketing | 04:13 PM

Upcoming programs from UI Recreational Services will keep some participants dancing and sweating, others building shelter and finding their way through the wild. Story

UI's Suls discovers tornados survivors are more optimistic

ABC News: UI's Suls discovers tornados survivors are more optimistic
Published: 
2013.03.07
University of Iowa sophomore Jessica Fischels stands in the remains of her apartment in Iowa City, Iowa, April 14, 2006, after it was destroyed by tornado. (Matthew Holst/Iowa City Press Citizen/AP Photo)

UI psychologist Jerry Suls was part of a research team that looked at how people get on with their lives following harrowing experiences after he was unscathed when a tornado hit downtown Iowa City in 2006. Story from: ABC News

ABC News

UI expert comments on spread of deadly 'superbugs'

USA Today: UI expert comments on spread of deadly 'superbugs'
Published: 
2013.03.06
A lab specimen of antibiotic-resistant Enterobacter cloacae, which belongs to a family of infectious bacteria, known as CRE. / Handout

Eli Perencevich, a UI professor and infectious-disease doctor, says he is concerned that there aren't a lot of methods in the tool kit that are significantly effective in curbing the spread of certain bacteria-resistant infections. Story from: USA Today

USA Today

UI, ISU offer exclusive research licensing option to industry

Published: 
2013.03.07 | By University Communication and Marketing | 07:00 AM

The University of Iowa and Iowa State University announced Wednesday a new option allowing industry to negotiate exclusive licenses to breakthroughs from partnerships with university researchers. The goal is to increase universities' partnership with companies on research and to increase the rate of technology transfer to the private sector. Story

Kristin's story

Published: 
2013.03.06 | By University Communication and Marketing | 10:08 AM

Andrea Cooper will bring her daughter's story to the University of Iowa campus when she shares "Kristin's Story: A Story of Acquaintance Rape and Depression" at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 10, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union. Story

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