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Male student studying on the Pentracrest on a fall afternoon

Must-see spots on campus

Monday, August 19, 2013
Did you spend countless hours on the Pentacrest cramming for exams? Propose to your wife on the IMU footbridge? Catch sunsets from the steps of Old Cap? Iowa Now wants to know: what are your favorite campus spots, and why?

Gerontological policy expert is Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting Professor Sept. 9-11

Monday, August 19, 2013
Claudia Beverly, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, director of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing, has dedicated her career to ensuring that all older adults receive the highest quality health care. She will be visiting the Iowa City area, including the University of Iowa, as part of the Ida Cordelia Beam Visiting...

Feeling the love at the State Fair

Friday, August 16, 2013
People visiting the University of Iowa booth in the Iowa State Fair's William C. Knapp Varied Industries Building love more than just the free football posters and the temporary Tigerhawk tattoos. Want proof? UI sophomore Sam Wampler asks a variety of fair-goers what they love about the UI.
Vice President Joe Biden

Joe Biden's polling problem

Friday, August 16, 2013
Hillary Clinton is topping all polls in hypothetical 2016 match-ups against Republicans, but Vice President Joe Biden isn't faring as well. “If they don’t want Hillary then they may be looking for sort of the next generation politician,” UI professor Tim Hagle said.

Recent deaths

Friday, August 16, 2013
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

UI professor says droopy economy helps explain lagging birthrate

Thursday, August 15, 2013
Alice Schoonbroodt, a UI economics professor, says it makes sense that birthrates continue to be unusually low since many Americans remain uneasy with the slow recovery from the Great Recession in 2009.
University of Iowa mascot Herky visits with Collin Wheat, 12, a seventh grader at Roosevelt Middle School as Collin shows what he has learned from the new software he has been using during an Iowa Center for Assistive Technology camp at the school Wednesd

UI experts help Cedar Rapids students master assistive technology software

Thursday, August 15, 2013
UI mascot Herky visited Roosevelt Middle School in Cedar Rapids to watch students share what they had learned during a three-day camp offered through the UI College of Education's Iowa Center for Assistive Technology Education and Research.
Chef Robert Lewis holding a platter of veggetables

'The Happy Diabetic' chef cooks it up at the Iowa State Fair

Thursday, August 15, 2013
Chef Robert Lewis, "The Happy Diabetic," will demonstrate healthy dishes for diabetics on Aug. 17 at the Iowa State Fair. The demonstration coincides with an effort at the University of Iowa to enroll participants in a national study to identify the most effective drugs to treat type-2 diabetes.
A driving simulator is used in a clinical trial of a sleep drug at NeuroTrials Research in Atlanta.

Don't sleep and drive

Thursday, August 15, 2013
Matthew Rizzo, a UI professor of neurology, comments on the difficulty of assessing various factors on driver safety, in a story on the impact of sleep aids and drowsy driving, which also mentions UI's National Advanced Driving Simulator as a resource used by drug companies.
A woman demonstrates 3-Dt technology used to detect breast cancer early at UI Hospitals and Clinics

3-D technology making strides in early breast cancer detection at UI

Wednesday, August 14, 2013
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is using a new 3-D imaging tool called tomosynthesis to help detect breast cancer earlier, resulting in a 40 percent improvement in cancer detection rates, according to Dr. Laurie Fajardo, UI Hospitals and Clinics professor of radiology.
Image of a black woman doing paperwork for a loan

UI study shows black women fare well in getting loans

Tuesday, August 13, 2013
African-American women, who have long complained of the negative impact of predatory lending, appear to be coveted candidates when it comes to getting loans, according to a study by researchers at the University of Iowa.

UI researchers present studies at American Sociological Association meeting

Sunday, August 11, 2013
Capsule summaries of several UI researchers who will present their work at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in New York, which runs from Aug. 10-13.