Latest Spotlight News

View more news related to spotlights at the University of Iowa.

UI law professor consults with High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia

Wednesday, October 1, 2014
UI College of Law Professor Mark Osiel recently spent several days in Bogotá, Colombia, consulting with officials at the High Commissioner for Peace, concerning legal issues involved in ending the country’s longstanding civil war.

Free Oct. 2 'Twitch' Huntington disease documentary screening and lecture

Monday, September 29, 2014
The Twitch international screening tour is coming to Iowa City with a free screening and discussion with Twitch creator and star Kristen Powers Thursday, Oct. 2 on the UI campus thanks to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence.

UI doctoral student helps develop software to predict spread of Ebola virus

Thursday, September 25, 2014
Grant Brown, a student from Clive, Iowa, who is seeking his doctoral degree in biostatistics from the UI College of Public Health, is working with faculty member Jacob Oleson to develop open source software that will model and predict the spread of the Ebola epidemic.

The library that Bonfield built

Thursday, September 18, 2014
Arthur Bonfield built the UI Law Library into the largest public law school library in the country—with more than 1.3 million volumes and volume equivalents—and the second largest library by that measurement among all public and private law school libraries in the country.

Graduate student furthers Lao language research abroad

Friday, September 5, 2014
University of Iowa doctoral candidate Douglas Cole of Cedar Rapids shares his experiences conducting research on the lesser-studied Lao language while traveling to Vientiane, Laos, thanks to a Stanley Graduate Award for International Research.

Iowa in Ireland—a glimpse into the Irish Writing Program

Monday, August 11, 2014
Experience the Irish Writing Program through the eyes of the program's director and some of the UI students who participated in the summer 2014 study abroad program by watching this video.

UI summer programs offer research experience to undergraduates

Monday, July 28, 2014
The Carver College of Medicine has welcomed 150 undergraduate students this summer to participate in the college’s many research programs, which offer participants an early taste of hands-on work in a laboratory as well as valuable time with faculty members in their area of interest.

Williamsburg partnership assists migrant workers' children

Monday, July 21, 2014
UI College of Education faculty and students are working to serve K-12 students whose families are migrant workers in Williamsburg, Iowa, alongside their English Language Learners teacher, a UI graduate and former migrant worker herself.

WorldCanvass partners with FilmScene for 2014-15 season

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
International Programs (IP) at the UI announces a new partnership for IP’s television and radio series WorldCanvass; Starting in September, WorldCanvass will be held once a month on Tuesday nights at FilmScene, a state-of-the-art theater located on Iowa City’s pedestrian mall.

Visiting Thai professor cherishes her Iowa connections

Friday, June 27, 2014
Naowarut Charoenca can’t help but appreciate the value of relationships—those developed over a lifetime, as well as the new ones she is cultivating with colleagues as part of a three-month visiting professorship in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.