Faculty

University of Iowa College of Law, Buena Vista University sign partnership

Friday, March 7, 2014
The University of Iowa College of Law and Buena Vista University have entered into an agreement that will allow undergraduate students at Buena Vista to earn both their bachelor’s and law degrees in six years.
TILE classroom

UI professors working to transform large lectures

Friday, March 7, 2014
The UI launched the Transforming Large Lectures Project with two classes in this spring semester, using technology both to help students prepare for class and to allow for more interaction among students and between students and the professor.

Gaining hands-on athletic training experience

Thursday, March 6, 2014
March is commonly known as "March Madness" on the hardwood, but it's also "National Athletic Training Month," which is a month used by those in athletic training to promote the profession.

UI expert sources on the crisis in Ukraine

Thursday, March 6, 2014
The University of Iowa has several experts available to comment on the crisis in Ukraine, from political to social to economic impacts.
Students in the Recreation and Sport Business track in the Chicago Blackhawks locker room.

Educational road trip

Thursday, March 6, 2014
University of Iowa students participating in the Recreation and Sport Business track traveled to Chicago on Feb. 13 for an educational field trip.
pigeon

Wasserman discusses 'noble, intelligent' pigeons

Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ed Wasserman runs the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at the University of Iowa and is world renowned for his work in animal intelligence, including proving that pigeons recognize individual human faces.
welding

The cycle of art

Thursday, March 6, 2014
Avid cyclist and University of Iowa art professor Steve McGuire teaches students how to make bicycles as artistic expression.

Salt Lake playwright in cross-cultural program from Iowa to Iraq

Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Salt Lake City playwright David Kranes will participate in Book Wings, a collaborative theater project at the University of Iowa and the University of Baghdad, with participants in Baghdad and Iowa City collaborating via teleconference.
ear with megaphone

Study: For memory, hearing is worse than seeing or feeling

Tuesday, March 4, 2014
New research out of the University of Iowa, published in PLOS One, suggests that those moments when we forget something we were told are particularly human—that people’s memory for things they hear is just not that great.

We are Tippie. We are Phil.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Ninety-one percent of University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business faculty and staff contributed to For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa through We Are Phil.
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Uncertainty hits U.S., Russian, Ukraine markets

Tuesday, March 4, 2014
UI finance professor Art Durnev, who studies the intersection of foreign affairs and finance, notes that major corporations with stakes in Russia and Ukraine have seen stock prices drop: "We are facing this absolutely tremendous economic uncertainty in that part of the world," he says.
ITS: Connecting & Collaborating

ITS Biennial Report highlights technology milestones, plans

Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Through collaboration, Information Technology Services hit many milestones—bringing a new data center into production, launching a student information system, and more—learn about these and other projects in the 2012-13 ITS Biennial Report.