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'Mural' arrives at Getty conservation lab

Friday, July 27, 2012
India West
The University of Iowa-owned Jackson Pollock painting will undergo restoration before being displayed at L.A.'s Getty Museum.

Holdefer returns to the UI with new novel

Thursday, July 26, 2012
Daily Iowan
With a new novel just out, alumnus Charles Holdefer returns from France to teach in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

UI collaborates on Italian excavation

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Iowa City Press-Citizen
UI Professor Glenn Storey is collaborating with European archeologists on excavations at a Benedictine Abbey in Italy (in Italiano).

UI launches online immigration software

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Spacial Source
The UI has responded to the increase in international students with immigration software, additional staff, and other initiatives.

Fethke writes about presidency perils

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Business faculty member Gary Fethke, former interim president of the UI, writes about "The Precarious Profession of University President."

Writer Bloom responds to Aurora killings

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
This is Cornwall
UI writing fellow and International Writing Program alumnus Kevin Bloom from South Africa writes about the "tragic inevitability" of the Aurora killings.

Malloy develops pediatric heart 'maps'

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Daily Iowan
UI Children's Hospital researcher Lindsey Malloy led a project that developed three-dimensional "maps" of electrical signals in children's hearts.

Mason supports Penn State sanctions

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Des Moines Register
UI president Sally Mason, current chair of the Big Ten conference's council of presidents and chancellors, says she backs strong NCAA sanctions issued in the wake of a child abuse scandal.

Sloane social-media column causes firestorm

Tuesday, July 24, 2012
ScienceBlogs
Alumna Cathryn Sloane set off a social media firestorm recently by saying that nobody over the age of 25 should be doing social media as a profession.

UI study shows friendship aids ovarian cancer survival

Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Iowa City Patch
Women with ovarian cancer may have somewhat better survival odds when they feel emotionally supported by family and friends, a new study led by University of Iowa psychology professor Susan Lutgendorf suggests.