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Saba Rasheed Ali and Paul Romitti

2 faculty members named 2025 UI Distinguished Chairs

Thursday, March 13, 2025
Saba Rasheed Ali, associate dean for research and professor of counseling psychology in the College of Education, and Paul A. Romitti, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, have been named recipients of the 2025 University of Iowa Distinguished Chair.

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Accessible Document Series: PDF Session II

Friday, March 14, 2025 10:30am to 12:00pm
Virtual
PDF Accessibility Part II is hands-on. Participants will apply accessibility tools (Acrobat, PDF Accessibility Checker) to remediate documents for improved accessibility. We'll also explore order, content, and tag tools to better understand three core aspects of more accessible PDFs.
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Iowa baseball vs. Michigan State

Friday, March 14, 2025 12:00pm
Duane Banks Field
The Iowa baseball team hosts Michigan State.
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Demos Unleashed 2025! Physics & Astronomy Public Demo Show

Friday, March 14, 2025 7:00pm
Van Allen Hall
Witness real-life physics in action through engaging demonstrations! Our interactive show combines thrilling experiments with dazzling astronomical displays, making complex concepts fun and understandable! The event will be hosted by Prof. Vincent Rodgers, Mr. Dale Stille, and Andi Swirbul. After the show, it is normal to feel a strong desire to become a physics and astronomy major! This year's program will feature the science of the TRACERS spacecraft mission which includes making plasmas...

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UI students receive degrees after fall 2024 semester

The University of Iowa has welcomed a new cohort of alumni at the close of the fall 2024 semester, with many Hawkeyes receiving their degrees.

UI students named to president’s list for fall 2024 semester

Nearly 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2024 fall semester.
Mike Pentella

UI expert explains: What you need to know about bird flu

Mike Pentella, professor of epidemiology in the University of Iowa College of Public Health and director of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI, explains that bird flu is a disease caused by certain influenza viruses that usually spread among birds, not humans, and that public health surveillance is critical to prevent its spread. 

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