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Is television the new secondhand smoke?

Monday, April 23, 2012
University of Iowa College of Education professor Deborah L. Linebarger's collaborative research study reveals that children ages 8 months to 8 years old are exposed to nearly four hours of television playing in the background each day.

Journalism adds video-game writing

Monday, April 23, 2012
The University of Iowa School of Journalism is adding video-game writing to its curriculum.

Frederick wins CineCause Award

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
University of Iowa theater alumna TannFrederick, actress and philanthropist, is the winner of the 2012 CineCause Award at the Julien Dubuque Film Festival.

Firsthand Holocaust memories disappear

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
University of Iowa historian Elizabeth Heineman says there is a sense of urgency as the deaths of Holocaust survivors bring an end to firsthand accounts.

Explaining the e-book lawsuit

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Law professor Herbert Hovenkamp and UI Press director James McCoy explain what's behind the e-book price-fixing lawsuit.

Yiyun Li is profiled

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Yiyun Li, who came to the UI with limited English skills to study immunology, has become one of the most-honored English-language writers.

Gurnett captures space "speech"

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
With the Cassini spacecraft, physicist Donald Gurnett captured sounds that to some sound like alien speech. (Editor's note: site is Ukranian; embedded YouTube video documents the space sounds.)

Heiden studies repetitive stress

Monday, April 16, 2012
Doctoral student Erin Heiden, a behavioral health and injury prevention researcher, found high overuse injury rates in certain women's sports.

Village is really a nursing home

Monday, April 16, 2012
Marianne Smith, UI assistant professor of nursing specializing in dementia care, comments on an innovative Dutch nursing home that looks and operates like a village.

Miracle morgue baby

Monday, April 16, 2012
UI premature infant specialist Edward Bell explains how Argentina's "miracle morgue baby," who survived 12 hours without assistance before being discovered alive, could have been declared dead.