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UI faculty members Claire Fox and Omar Valerio-Jiménez led the 2013 Obermann Summer Seminar, gathering 14 distinguished scholars in Latino/a Studies to the University of Iowa, who helped create the anthology and web platform, The Latino Midwest Reader.

Three companies with ties to the University of Iowa have obtained funding from the state to expand their businesses, create jobs, and further develop their products. The companies, Memcine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., NanoMedtrix, LLC, and Iowa Approach, LLC were awarded direct financial assistance from the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

A new UI Public Policy Center study says that 3 percent of Iowa children do not have health insurance, one of the lowest rates in the nation that could nonetheless be improved.

Longtime University of Iowa faculty members Craig Zwerling and Nancy L. Sprince have established a new endowed scholarship fund to support students pursuing advanced degrees in the UI College of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Dr. Donald W. Black, professor of psychiatry at the UI Carver College of Medicine, says that genetics and sociocultural expectations regarding gender roles are likely two reasons why men commit more crimes, in a story on 11 reasons why men die sooner than women.

Linda Kerber, UI professor emeritus of history, comments on the all-female jury in the Zimmerman verdict, saying that opinions of women jurors tending to be emotional in their decision making are folklore and was rationale used for decades to prevent women from being jurors.

Donald Black, director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will read from "Bad Boys, Bad Men" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 18, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Members of the both the Linn Street and New Horizons bands come together for a special performance Wednesday, July 24, under the direction of Jerry Zinn, retired ICCSD band director and Erin Wehr, UI visiting assistant professor of music education.

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Neil Segal, UI associate professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation, reveals why having a baby could have you shopping for new shoes.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced this morning that UI Hospitals and Clinics appears again on "The Best Hospitals in America" listing compiled annually by "U.S. News & World Report."