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Alumnus maps LA

Thursday, June 14, 2012
University of Iowa film-studies alumnus Eric Brightwell, awed by the immensity of Los Angeles, found a new life mapping the city's neighborhoods.

Riding a virtual bike

Thursday, June 14, 2012
Jodie Plumert, chair of the University of Iowa Psychology Department, says riding a virtual bike "offers a way to look at this real-world problem in a very safe but systematic way.”

A novel by Tweet?

Thursday, June 14, 2012
University of Iowa new-media specialist Jon Winet is co-founder of an experiment to learn if a novel can be written through Twitter.

Grateful patients benefit Iowans, society

Thursday, June 14, 2012
'Grateful patient' and donor Seamans writes in support of giving program.

Diagnosing stroke from a distance

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Harold Adams, University of Iowa professor of neurology and director of the UI Stroke Center, demonstrates a robot used to diagnose stroke at remote hospitals.

Warm and fuzzy flash drives

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
University of Iowa graduate and accidental entrepreneur Doug Stienstra discovers a niche for the cutest little USB drives you'll ever see.

Are kids' apps scary?

Monday, June 11, 2012
Deborah Linebarger, who studies children and the media, is concerned about iPhone apps for kids.

Pant: Internet hits vs. reliability

Monday, June 11, 2012
A recent study by Gautam Pant compared how search engine results correlated to merchants’ Better Business Bureau reviews, finding that merchants who used dollar signs in their results earned markedly lower grades from the BBB.

Gable grapples with quilts

Monday, June 11, 2012
Dan Gable learns a bit about another kind of pinning.

Hammerich explains radium essay

Monday, June 11, 2012
Jenna Hammerich, an alumna of the Nonfiction Writing Program and now a writer/editor with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is interviewed about her essay addressing the history of radium.