Impact

Helping children, adolescents find artistic voice

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Area middle and high school students’ original works of art garnered through new genres and techniques from University of Iowa art education students will be on display from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at United Action for Youth, 355 Iowa Ave. in Iowa City.

Public engagement in higher education

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
University of Iowa faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate in a workshop, Public Engagement in Higher Education, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the UI College of Public Health.
Dr. Chris Buresh cuddles a a Haitian youngster, Wendly Steven, 13 months old, who has severe scar tissue on his hand from grabbing a piece of firewood/

UI health experts among Iowans who volunteered in Haiti

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Chris Buresh and Casey Panko, a UI Hospitals and Clinics emergency-medicine physician and emergency department nurse respectively, served as team leaders when traveling to Haiti in March along with other Community Health Initiative volunteers, bringing health care to rural villages in Haiti.

School of Social Work announces poetry contest winners

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The University of Iowa School of Social Work in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the winners of the first annual National Poetry Contest for Social Workers. The purpose of the contest was to acknowledge the creative talent of social workers and to draw attention to social work as a profession.

Free head and neck cancer screening offered at UI

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
As a part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer are available from 8 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 29, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.
People react while watching police respond to reported gunfire on Friday in Watertown, Mass. / Mario Tama/Getty Images

Grad student, alum share reactions after Boston Marathon bombing arrest

Monday, April 22, 2013
University of Iowa alumnus Aaron Schaechterle and UI graduate student Duncan Mackie, who was part of a College of Pharmacy delegation in Boston for a conference, were among those sharing their reactions in a story about the arrest of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Preventing student suicide

Monday, April 22, 2013
University Counseling Service Director Sam Cochran says the University of Iowa community suffers an average of two to three student suicides annually. To bring the campus and local community together to prevent future student suicides, Cochran is leading the three-year $270,970 grant, “Leveraging Campus-Community Collaborations to Enhance Suicide Prevention at the University of Iowa.”
young man sitting in shadowy room

Distress Signals

Monday, April 22, 2013
You might be able to save a life if you learn to recognize the warning signs of suicide and know how to steer a student exhibiting these signs to appropriate resources for help.

Design It, Build It, Ride It

Monday, April 22, 2013
University of Iowa art professor Steve McGuire will talk about bikes when the University of Iowa Museum of Art presents the second Elliott Society Lecture of the semester on Thursday, May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Art Building West (ABW), Room 240. McGuire’s lecture, "Design It, Build It, Ride It — A Titanium Bicycle," is free and open to the public. McGuire is professor of 3-D design and metal...

Legal and social science race scholars to be introduced at UI conference

Friday, April 19, 2013
A conference at the University of Iowa College of Law later this month hopes to properly introduce scholars in the law and social sciences who study race, but not with each other.

From practice field to elementary classroom

Friday, April 19, 2013
The University of Iowa football team views spring practice as a time for development. Members of the team have taken that view to the community this month, sharing the message of literature with Iowa City youth.

The Rise of the Mammals

Friday, April 19, 2013
What were mammals eating during the Age of Dinosaurs and what can we learn about their diets from studying fossils of their teeth? Those and other questions will be answered as the "The Fossil Guy" series continues Saturday, April 27, at 2 p.m. at the UI Museum of Natural History.