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Understanding suicide as a social justice issue
Monday, November 9, 2020
In a new article published in the Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, Counseling Psychology Professor Emeritus John Westefeld of the University of Iowa College of Education, describes how we can begin to understand suicide and suicide prevention as a social justice issue.
Exploring the echo chamber: Ekdale receives $1M grant to study social media algorithms, extremism
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Funded by the Minerva Research Initiative—the social science research arm of the Department of Defense—Brian Ekdale, associate professor in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and his co-investigators will use qualitative, quantitative, and computational research methodologies to investigate the psychological attributes that make a person vulnerable to radicalization and how U.S...
Chorazy named associate dean for academic affairs
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Margaret (Maggie) Chorazy has been named associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Iowa College of Public Health. Her appointment begins Nov. 1, 2020. Chorazy is currently the director of undergraduate programs for the college and a clinical associate professor of epidemiology. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology and scholarship of teaching and learning in...
Office of Sustainability announces funding for research projects
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Office of Sustainability and the Environment has announced three research and educational projects that have won funding. The projects are: "Sustainable Food Systems and COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Innovations and Strategies;" "A hard rain’s gonna fall: Responses of Iowa’s bur oak to increased precipitation variability;" and "Algal Blooms Detection and Forecasting through Smart and...
Biology professor wins NIH funding to study organism's response to stress
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
An assistant professor in the Department of Biology has been awarded an Early Stage Investigator grant from the National Institutes of Health. Bin He will use the funding to investigate how gene regulatory networks evolve as an organism reacts to external perturbations—such as a change in temperature or source of food— how they may contribute to a species’ adaptation to its environment. His lab...
Reassigned employees help State Hygienic Lab near milestones
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
A number of University of Iowa employees temporarily reassigned have helped the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) near some milestones related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The employees helped fill critical roles in the testing process over the summer as the SHL expanded its capabilities to meet explosive demand for testing. The lab is fast approaching having conducted half a million COVID-19 tests...
UI museums and libraries win $200,000 grant to expand senior programming in Iowa
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A $222,327 grant to the University of Iowa will allow an expansion of the Stanley Museum of Art's Senior Living Communities Program, which brings art programming and interactive activities to seniors in long-term care facilities in Iowa. The grant is part of $13.8 million in funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Grants for Museums and Libraries announced Sept...
University of Iowa team wins $1M NSF grant to lead a multi-university consortium to advance medical AI
Thursday, September 24, 2020
To address concerns around patient privacy and data security in medical artificial intelligence, Stephen Baek, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Iowa, along with UI investigators Xiaodong Wu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Nick Street, professor of business analytics, has received a $1 million phase one grant from the National...
UI employees step up to help State Hygienic Lab with COVID-19 testing
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Meet the small army of temporarily reassigned University of Iowa employees who helped fill critical roles in the COVID-19 testing process over the summer at the State Hygienic Laboratory.
Mary Lou Emery explores paradoxical cultural history of the bungalow in new book
Friday, September 18, 2020
In her new book, Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home, Mary Lou Emery, professor emerita in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, explores this global house design, which has been adopted by populations on every continent across four centuries, through the lens of literature.
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