2013.02.08 | By University Communication and Marketing | 09:56 AM
The Ten Minute Play Festival, featuring eight plays written by University of Iowa undergraduate students, will be showing at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 14-16, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building. Story
2013.02.08 | By University Communication and Marketing | 09:50 AM
On Jan. 26 and 27 University of Iowa Mock Trial team 1479 competed in the ninth annual Big Red Invitational Mock Trial tournament hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Story
2013.02.07 | By University Communication and Marketing | 03:51 PM
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, a document was mistakenly distributed to approximately 2,000 University of Iowa students associated with the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment (CDE) in the Chief Diversity Office that contained their names, number of enrolled credit hours, and grade point averages (GPA). Story
A University of Iowa team showed that the amygdala is not the only gatekeeper of fear in the human mind in a paper published recently in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Story from: Psychology Today
The annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Symposium, hosted by the College of Education’s Diversity Committee and sponsored by the UI Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, celebrates College of Education student research focused on diversity and service. Awards were given for the top five projects. Story
The UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) is helping faculty and graduate students learn how to effectively communicate their research. The project involves producing short videos, with CGRER staff help. Story
2013.02.06 | By University Communication and Marketing | 11:33 AM
Iowa City and University of Iowa will join with activists around the world at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, for "One Billion Rising," the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Story
University of Iowa students Michael Swank and Garret Dunn are imposing figures at the net for the UI men's tennis team. Both stand over 6-feet, 7-inches tall, and the two have formed a lethal duo at the No. 1 doubles position for the Hawkeye men's tennis team. Story
The University of Iowa has successfully kicked off its participation in the 2013 RecycleMania tournament, the national competition in which college campuses compete over eight weeks to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most on-campus waste.
Story from: The Daily Iowan
John Wemmie, a UI neuroscientist, shares insights from an experiment on how SM, a woman with a rare illness that damaged her amygdala and left her unafraid, recently experienced a panic attack, which may have practical value in the study of panic attacks.
Story from: The New York Times
