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A blind man's daily journey
Published: 2013.05.09 | By Richard C. Lewis and Tim Schoon | 11:23 AM
Published: 2013.05.09
By Richard C. Lewis and Tim Schoon
11:23 AM
The University of Iowa has produced a multimedia package chronicling a day in the life of Jerry Jackson, a 66-year-old Burlington man whose family suffers from a rare, inherited eye disease called ADNIV. Specialists at the UI's ophthalmology department have been studying the disease for more than two decades and now believe they've found the first genetic cause for it. Story
 

Scheetz receives $1.1 million grant to study optic nerve head structure

Published: 
2013.03.15 | By University of Iowa Health Care | 09:17 AM

A team of University of Iowa researchers will study the progressive loss of the optic nerve, which is a hallmark of glaucoma. Story

Brain power

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2013.03.15 | By Jennifer Brown | 08:00 AM
Daniel Tranel

The Iowa Neurological Patient Registry was founded in 1982 by UI researchers. The one-of-a-kind registry collects multiple instances of patients who have experienced brain damage as a result of injury, illness, or surgery, and helps researchers determine if lesions in one specific brain area always produce the same cognitive or behavioral deficits. Story

Where is that confounded site?!

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2013.03.14 | By Rebecca Pope | 09:50 AM

John Doershuk and Mark Anderson will present a free, public talk, “Where is that Confounded Site? Historic Background and the Recent Search for the Rummells-Maske Clovis Cache, 13CD15,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub of the UI Museum of Natural History. Story

UI's Schoenbaum shares social history of the violin

Violinist: UI's Schoenbaum shares social history of the violin
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2013.03.13
Partial image of book jacket of "The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument"

David Schoenbaum, UI history professor emeritus, has been researching his book, The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument, ever since he started playing the violin, as a child. Story from: Violinist

Violinist

Even with a female dean, most MBAs are still men

Bloomberg Business Week: Even with a female dean, most MBAs are still men
Published: 
2013.03.13
Male business students watching a presentation

Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Tippie College of Business, says role models are important for underrepresented groups so organizations attract more diversity as part of a story on how despite more business schools having female deans, most MBAs are still men. Story from: Bloomberg Business Week

Bloomberg Business Week

McGehee says cameras make impact on motorists' behaviors

Des Moines Register: McGehee says cameras make impact on motorists' behaviors
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2013.03.11

Daniel McGehee, director of the University of Iowa’s Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Division, comments on the impact of surveillance cameras in vehicles in a story on how Des Moines will soon install such cameras in city vehicles. Story from: Des Moines Register

Des Moines Register

Hard rain

Published: 
2013.03.13 | By Gary Galluzzo | 08:42 AM
rain drops hitting a puddle of water

Heavy rains have been more frequent across the upper Midwest, according to a study from the University of Iowa. The study spanned the last 60 years, up to 2010 and appears to hold true even with the current drought. Results appear in the "Journal of Climate." Story

Get to Know...Cory Forbes

Published: 
2013.03.12 | By Lois J. Gray | 04:30 PM
cory forbes portrait

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Cory Forbes, assistant professor of science education in the College of Education's Department of Teaching and Learning who also is an Eagle Scout. Story

Communicating with children

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2013.03.12 | By Heather Spangler | 11:17 AM

Dafna Lemish, a leading scholar on children and the media, will present a lecture Friday, March 15, at 3 p.m. titled, “Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate, and Heal.” The talk is free and open to the public. Story

UI's Brochu comments on unearthing of ancient alligator ancestors

Science Now: UI's Brochu comments on unearthing of ancient alligator ancestors
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2013.03.04
Ancient gator. The discovery of the skull of a new crocodilian ancestor, Culebrasuchus mesoamericanus, depicted here by an artist, gives researchers information on how caimans evolved from alligators. Credit: Original Artwork by Danielle Byerley © Florida Museum of Natural History

University of Iowa paleontologist Christopher Brochu comments on the latest fossils discovered in a massive expansion project, skulls of crocodilians, which are ancient relatives of alligators, though he was not involved with this new work. Story from: Science Now

Science Now

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