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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
 

UI's Howes leads first laboratory measurement of space turbulence

Phys.org: UI's Howes leads first laboratory measurement of space turbulence
Published: 
2013.04.15

Greg Howes, UI assistant professor of physics and astronomy, describes the so-called Alfven waves that comprise space turbulence, a key driver of space weather, and how he replicated the waves and studied them in the laboratory. Story from: Phys.org

Phys.org

UI professor brings music therapy to dementia patients

The Daily Iowan: UI professor brings music therapy to dementia patients
Published: 
2013.04.17
UI professor works with a group of young children using music therapy

University of Iowa music professor Mary Adamek and her class have brought music-therapy sessions to people all over the area this semester, ranging all the way from pre-schoolers to dementia patients. Story from: The Daily Iowan

The Daily Iowan

UI's Tyler Priest says benefits of offshore drilling are understated

Wall Street Journal: UI's Tyler Priest says benefits of offshore drilling are understated
Published: 
2013.04.12
A photo of an offshore oil drilling rig

Tyler Priest, a UI associate professor of history and geography, argues for increased offshore drilling while Cindy Zipf, the executive director of Clean Ocean Action Inc., based in Sandy Hook, N.J., makes the case against greater offshore drilling in a Wall Street Journal story. Story from: Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

Perceptions of pain

Published: 
2013.04.16 | By John Riehl | 10:37 AM

Research shows that African-Americans generally have a higher pain tolerance than most people. Moreover, many are under-treated for chronic and acute pain, causing their health to decline. Staja Booker wants to find ways to help African-Americans receive better chronic pain care. Story

Public or perish: The evolving audience of the Walt Whitman Archive

Published: 
2013.04.15 | By University Communication and Marketing | 10:55 AM

The next installment of the Public Digital Humanities for Lunch series is "Public or Perish: The Evolving Audience of the Walt Whitman Archive.” The talk will be take place from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the third-floor English-Philosophy Building Gerber Lounge. Story

UI Health Science Research Week events April 16 and 17

Published: 
2013.04.12 | By UI Health Care Marketing and Communications | 10:35 AM

An online game that lets citizen scientists help map the brain connections involved in vision is the subject of one of three public presentations by leading neuroscience experts being held April 16 and 17 to celebrate UI Health Sciences Research Week. Story

Innovation summit helps would-be UI entrepreneurs

Published: 
2013.04.12 | By University Communication and Marketing | 10:09 AM

University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff interested in starting a technology start-up business can learn more about helpful UI resources at the Hawkeye Innovation Summit from 8-11 a.m. Friday, April 26 at the hotelVetro. Story

UI's Linebarger says background TV can be harmful to children

Education.com: UI's Linebarger says background TV can be harmful to children
Published: 
2013.04.08

UI College of Education Associate Professor Deborah Linebarger says that frequent disruptions are linked to poorer academic and cognitive outcomes based on a study she and colleagues conducted which looked at the amount of background TV children are exposed to on a regular basis. Story from: Education.com

Education.com

No need to tinker with Tinker

Published: 
2013.04.12 | By Tom Snee | 07:32 AM

Iowa’s place in judicial history will forever be cemented with Tinker v. Des Moines, the Supreme Court ruling that students do not lose their First Amendment right to free speech in school, but an Iowa legal researcher presents a new way of looking at it during the social media age. Story

UI reseacher writes about most recent bird flu virus to infect humans

Slate: UI reseacher writes about most recent bird flu virus to infect humans
Published: 
2013.04.10
An employee sprays to sterilize a poultry farm in Hemen township, Jiangsu province, April 8, 2013. (Photo by Reuters)

UI associate professor of epidemiology Tara Smith summarizes what is currently known about the H7N9 virus outbreak in China and describes the challenges of working with avian influenza viruses that jump to other species, including humans. Story from: Slate

Slate

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