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UI students relax by sitting on a couch in the UI Asian Pacific American Culture Center

UI cultural center celebrates 10-year anniversary

University of Iowa students, staff, alumni, and faculty gathered for a brunch at the UI Asian Pacific American Culture Center on Sunday, one of many activities marking the 10th anniversary of the center during a three-day celebration.
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UI professor comments on North Korean leader's threats

Monday, April 8, 2013
Sang-Seok Yoon, a Korean language professor at the University of Iowa, is one of a number of people in Iowa with ties to the Korean peninsula who commented on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's threats to attack South Korea and the United States.

UI programs use 3D printing technology

Monday, April 8, 2013
UI industrial engineering doctoral student Howard Chen built a 3D bio printer at the UI's College of Engineering’s Center for Computer Aided Design's Biomanufacturing Laboratory. At the UI, 3D printing technology is being integrated into student learning in many ways.

Achievements

Friday, April 5, 2013
University staff, faculty, and students are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

UI pharmacy professor to launch dementia study

Friday, April 5, 2013
Ryan Carnahan, a University of Iowa pharmacy professor, will launch a dementia study with support from a new federal agency created by the Affordable Care Act.

UI study finds drinking, drugs more common for kids of deployed

Thursday, April 4, 2013
Teens and preteens with a parent deployed in the military may be more likely to binge drink or misuse prescription drugs, according to a new study led by senior author Stephan Arndt, a psychiatry researcher at the University of Iowa.

ITS launches internally built student record system

Thursday, April 4, 2013
Seven years in the making, a new homegrown student record system called MAUI (Made At the University of Iowa) manages vast amounts of data—everything from admissions and registration information to financial aid and billing.
Friday Night Lights author and columnist Buzz Bissinger confessed to a shopping addiction in a recent GQ article. (Michael Loccisano/Getty)

UI psychiatry professor comments on compulsive shoppers

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Donald Black, professor of psychiatry at the UI’s Carver College of Medicine, says that most compulsive shoppers are not famous or wealthy, just ordinary people with an unusual problem, in a shopping addiction story, featuring Buzz Bissinger, who recently checked into rehab.

Students to perform 'Music Through the Centuries'

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The University of Iowa School of Music will present “Music Through the Centuries,” a free concert of music for organ, harpsichord, and voice, at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. Students will sing a variety of solo vocal music from composers Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Bach, Boulanger, Faure, and Davidson.

Hancher to co-present Mucca Pazza during Mission Creek Festival

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The University of Iowa’s Hancher is co-presenting a concert by Mucca Pazza during the Mission Creek Festival. The unique band will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at The Englert Theatre, brining a unique sensibility to the stage—and beyond the stage—with a marching band meets rock band vibe.

Hancher to present world premiere of 'The Broken Chord' by Working Group Theatre

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
'The Broken Chord' project was designed to collect, archive, and present the personal stories of those working on the front lines of memory and aging research and patient care, as well as those who are suffering from memory-related diseases.

Hancher and Working Group engage Alzheimer's patients with TimeSlips program

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The University of Iowa’s Hancher is collaborating with Iowa City’s Working Group Theatre on an ambitious community engagement project that will culminate in the presentation of The Broken Chord, a new play that explores issues of memory.