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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
 

Live or die?

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2013.05.13 | By John Riehl | 07:00 AM
over-activated cell

Andrew Shepherd, UI postdoctoral scholar in pharmacology, studies cell processes that regulate potassium. When the balance of potassium is disturbed, cell death may occur. Shepherd focuses on a mechanism underlying the regulation of neuronal excitability, survival, and death—processes central to such diseases as epilepsy, neuro-HIV, and stroke. Story

Let the children play

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2013.05.10 | By Richard C. Lewis | 11:14 AM
parent and child playing a card game

The University of Iowa has partnered with the Iowa Children's Museum on "Playing is Learning," an initiative to reintroduce children, and their parents, to the concept of play. The kickoff event is May 14 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the children's museum in Coralville. Story

Two UI alumnae receive Fulbright research grants for 2013-14

Published: 
2013.05.10 | By Katelyn McBride | 10:48 AM

Two University of Iowa alumnae have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research internationally in 2013-14. This year's UI recipients are Margaret Ross and Rebecca McCray. Story

Research team receives $10.6 million to study obesity and hypertension

Published: 
2013.05.09 | By Jennifer Brown | 12:02 PM

Researchers at the University of Iowa and colleagues at Cornell University have received a five-year, $10.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work investigating the biological links between high blood pressure and obesity. Story

A blind man's daily journey

Published: 
2013.05.09 | By Richard C. Lewis and Tim Schoon | 11:23 AM
Jerry Jackson walking across the street on a raining day

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

Video games slow, reverse mental decay

Japan Today: Video games slow, reverse mental decay
Published: 
2013.05.08
A closeup photo of someone's hands on a video game

Playing video games can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions such as memory, reasoning, and visual processing, according to a recent University of Iowa study. Story from: Japan Today

Japan Today

PCBs are everywhere

Published: 
2013.05.08 | By John Riehl | 10:34 AM
large tube in water

Despite the expectation of a large environmental exposure difference, UI researchers report that mothers and children in East Chicago, Ind., and Columbus Junction, Iowa, had similar concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in their blood. Story

Spotlight: College of Education unveils new brand initiative

College of Education Alumni Magazine: Spotlight: College of Education unveils new brand initiative
Published: 
2013.05.03
An image of the College of Education's new brand initiative

The UI College of Education recently unveiled its new brand initiative: "Leaders. Scholars. Innovators." Story from: College of Education Alumni Magazine

College of Education Alumni Magazine

All in a day on Saturn

Science Daily: All in a day on Saturn
Published: 
2013.05.03

UI undergraduate student Tim Kennelly has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere. Story from: Science Daily

Science Daily

UI expert investigates decline in screenings for expectant moms

KCCI: UI expert investigates decline in screenings for expectant moms
Published: 
2013.05.07
a close up of a newborn baby wrapped in a blanket

Sandy Daack-Hirsch, an assistant professor in the UI College of Nursing, is investigating the decline in parents not choosing an elective screening for expectant moms that can detect a host of health problems their baby may face. Story from: KCCI

KCCI

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