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Herrera named California Poet Laureate
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Writers' Workshop alumnus Juan Felipe Herrera dedicates the award to "all the young writers who want to put kindness inside every word throughout the state, because kindness is the heart of creativity."
Behind the wheel of a distracted driver
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
CNN's Lizzie O'Leary takes to the road in the National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa to demonstrate the hazards of distracted driving.
Fuortes helps 'nuclear cowboys'
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Laurence Fuortes, UI professor of occupational and environmental health, is helping Cold War "nuclear cowboys" receive benefits. Fuortes helped former atomic workers who were recently deemed eligible for compensation due to toxic exposures at Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University with the paperwork for their claims.
Fly mutations offer disease clues
Monday, March 26, 2012
University of Iowa biologist John Manak says studies of mutations in flies provide a powerful model of human disease.
Brokaw talks about UI veterans
Monday, March 26, 2012
On Morning Joe,Tom Brokaw highlights UI efforts to welcome U.S. military veterans and their positive impact as role models for other students.
Author explores invisible divide between religious, secular worlds
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The stories of Writers' Workshop alumnus Nathan Englander straddle an invisible religious/secular divide. Englander, author of a new book of short stories called What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, shares his thoughts on his writing and the characters in his novels.
Berry: Iowa needs more openness
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Journalism faculty member, responding to Iowa's "F" grade on public-records law, notes that the state's open-records law is loaded with exemptions.
Workshop alum Moffett tours with new book
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Fiction writer Kevin Moffett, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, discusses his newest book Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events. Moffett is described as "one of today's funniest fiction writers."
UI alumna uses dance therapy to improve lives
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
UI dance alumna Susan Rieger says almost anyone can benefit from dance therapy. Rieger uses dance therapy in her new company, Moving Toward Wholeness, to help everyone from a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome to a woman in her mid 50s wanting to build her core strength.
UI professor finds new ideas from old equipment
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments. At the University of Iowa Yasar Onel is using cast-off equipment to design a calorimeter that can detect secondary emissions from particle collisions in high-radiation environments.
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