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UI College of Education launches new brand

Published
2013.05.06
Examples of the new College of Education brand

Officials say the launch of the University of Iowa College of Education’s new brand honors the past and looks forward to the future. Story from: The Daily Iowan

The Daily Iowan

UI Foundation to promote research through new campaign

Published
2013.05.06

The UI Foundation unveiled the newest fundraising campaign on May 2, “For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa,” with one of the campaign’s three main goals being to ensure a healthier and more sustainable world. Story from: The Daily Iowan

The Daily Iowan

Telling time on Saturn

image of Saturn

A UI undergraduate student and his UI colleagues have discovered one way in which the bubble of electrically charged particles around Saturn, also known as Saturn's magnetosphere, changes with the planet's seasons. The finding could change how we view the Earth's magnetosphere. Results appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Story

Want to slow mental decay? Play a video game

road tour screen shot

A University of Iowa study shows that older people can put off the aging of their minds by playing a simple game that primes their processing speed skills. The research showed participants' cognitive skills improved in a range of functions, from improving peripheral vision to problem solving. Results published in the journal "PLOS One." Story

Turkish officials visit UI to strengthen Iowa ties

Published
2013.04.30
Turkish officials visit the UI campus

Fatih Yildiz, the Turkish consul general in Chicago, is visiting the University of Iowa campus and local community to strengthen relationships and expand trade in Iowa. Story from: The Daily Iowan

The Daily Iowan

Welch comments on Iowa's new reading assessments

Published
2013.04.27
Jane Addams Elementary School third-graders Carter Morrell, 9, and Kadene Tatum, 9, work on reading together. Quad-City Times photo by Larry Fisher

Cathy Welch, director of statewide testing programming for the Iowa Testing Programs at the UI College of Education, says Iowa's new reading assessment tests determine a child's ability to not just read the words on a page but comprehend them in a story that is part of a series. Story from: Quad-City Times

Quad-City Times

UI Clothesline Project creates awareness of sexual assault

Published
2013.04.25
The clothesline project displays T-shirts that represent sexual assault victims and survivors on the Pentacrest

Hundreds of T-shirts, each with a different message, lined clotheslines on the UI Pentacrest lawn Thursday as part of the Rape Victim Advocacy Program's Clothesline Project, part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Story from: Iowa City Patch

Iowa City Patch

Seyfer receives Lola Lopes Award

Cindy Seyfer, director of student employment and senior associate director in the University of Iowa Office of Student Financial Aid, has received the 2013 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy. Story

Mentoring Moscow

a 10-member delegation from Moscow visits with UI officials on campus.

A 10-member delegation from one of Russia’s premier research institutions visited the University of Iowa this past week to gather ideas to help improve its growing university. The visit was hosted primarily by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center. Story

Recent deaths

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available. Story

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