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Studies shed light on 'twice exceptional' students
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Susan G. Assouline, associate director of the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education, comments on the importance of comprehensively evaluating twice exceptional students.
Common fertility treatments raise birth defect risk, study finds
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
University of Iowa professor Dr. Bradley Van Voorhis says a new study confirms speculation that infertile couples are at increased risk of having a child with birth defects.
Visas scarce for foreign actuaries
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Elias Shiu, senior faculty in the University of Iowa Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, says immigration law makes it difficult for U.S. companies to hire foreign actuaries.
Farm manuals no longer a book of the past
Monday, May 7, 2012
First-year University of Iowa student Tyler Finchum operates a business in the university's Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory that sells operator manuals for agricultural implements over the internet.
Miss Iowa ready to take on the nation
Monday, May 7, 2012
University of Iowa elementary education student Rebecca Hodge will represent the state in this year's Miss USA competition.
Mahatma Gandhi and his anti-tea campaign
Monday, May 7, 2012
New research by University of Iowa professor Phillip Lutgendorf explains how tea became increasingly popular in India during the 20th century.
Gangsta rap conspiracy goes gangbusters
Monday, May 7, 2012
University of Iowa professor Michael Hill explains that rap became an increasingly popular form of music when white suburban kids started listening to it as a form of rebellion in the 1990s.
Brochu identifies crocodile that could swallow a human whole
Monday, May 7, 2012
University of Iowa professor Chris Brochu has identified the largest crocodile ever found, at 27 feet long it would have been able to swallow a human whole.
UI JPEC to reward high school entrepreneurs
Friday, May 4, 2012
Iowa's high school entrepreneurs can compete for cash awards for their business ideas in a contest co-sponsored by the University of Iowa's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.
Clerkships match students to small Iowa town law practices
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The University of Iowa College of Law is participating in a program that encourages law students to move to rural areas and replace retiring attorneys.