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Author Q&A with Sheri Salata
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
After leaving TV, a former Oprah producer and Tippie College of Business alumna wrote The Beautiful No, about her search for fulfillment. Now, Sheri Salata is heading back to Iowa City for a Sept 6 appearance at Prairie Lights Books. Read a Q&A with her on the Iowa Magazine website.
Inmates and songwriters come together for a day of music-filled healing
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Mary Cohen, associate professor of music education at the University of Iowa, discusses how songwriting can be especially powerful for people behind bars.
University of Iowa grad, now working for Kamala Harris, shares her immigration story
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
One of Lilian Sanchez’s goals as a campaign staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris is to help the candidate connect with Latino voters in Iowa. Sanchez, a 2018 UI graduate, was the first in her family to graduate from college and the first Latina voted vice president of UI Student Government.
A clear look at Jackson Pollock's breakthrough painting, 'Mural'
Friday, August 2, 2019
Jackson Pollock’s “Mural,” an 8-by-20-foot painting that the artist completed in 1943, has been on a continuous world tour since 2014. It’s traveled a lot of miles since leaving the UI campus just before the flood of 2008.
Successful parents talk to kids about safe driving
Monday, July 29, 2019
A University of Iowa study shows that parents can help their kids be safer drivers by having conversations with them about it.
Iowa-hosted entrepreneurs from Africa visit John Deere, Mississippi River
Monday, July 29, 2019
Entrepreneurs from Africa who are attending the six-week Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) at the University of Iowa this summer recently visited the Quad Cities to see two icons of America—the Mississippi River and John Deere.
Former Iowa student designs bra for breast cancer survivors
Monday, July 29, 2019
A team of University of Iowa alumnae that includes Algonquin, Iowa, native Genevieve Goelz has received a $10,000 prize for a bra they designed as an engineering class project that provides breast cancer survivors both support and relief from lymphedema pain after a single mastectomy.
Iowa study finds people of normal weight may actually be at risk for obesity-related health issues
Monday, July 29, 2019
A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that people who may have a healthy weight according to the body mass index (BMI) may actually have obesity-related health issues, which could be revealed by considering the person's waist circumference.
Iowa study shows Americans still don't get enough exercise
Monday, July 29, 2019
A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that the amount of time Americans spend exercising is little changed over the last 10 years, which isn't positive because Americans weren't exercising enough 10 years ago.
Lessons from a tragic summer: UI author Simon Baltos takes on the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Monday, July 29, 2019
One hundred years ago, violent race riots rocked Chicago. Two recently published books explore the the underpinnings of law enforcement’s relationship with the black population, the false promises Chicago held for new settlers escaping the South and the questions from the race riot that still haunts the city today.
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