Faculty
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Dancers in Company sparks Wieting Fine Arts Series on March 9
Monday, March 3, 2014
The Wieting Theatre and Opera House kicks off its inaugural Fine Arts Performance Series with Dancers in Company, the touring repertory dance company of the UI Dance Department, Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m.
Choosing STEM excellence
Monday, March 3, 2014
More than 150 high school students from around the state came to campus to present original research and participate in hands-on learning labs during the 2014 Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium hosted by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.
Sharing STEM knowledge
Monday, March 3, 2014
Five of the more than 150 Iowa high school students from across the state were chosen to advance to a national conference after presenting their original research on the UI campus during the 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.
UI researcher: blacks face disparities in drug treatment
Monday, March 3, 2014
UI psychiatry professor Stephan Arndt published a paper last year that found blacks are an average of 10 percentage points less likely to graduate drug treatment than whites with similar addiction profiles.
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