Faculty
One Billion Rising
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Iowa City and University of Iowa will join with activists around the world at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, for "One Billion Rising," the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
Don't forget to take your medicine
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy has obtained a grant to evaluate medication usage by patients in central Iowa. The goal: Improve the rate at which patients take prescribed drugs.
UI creates free Iowa foreclosure map
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Jerry Anthony, director of the UI Public Policy Center's housing and land use policy program, says that a free map was designed to make Iowa foreclosure data easily accessible and understandable.
Virtual vehicle vibrations
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
A UI researcher has designed a computer program that allows engineers to accurately predict the role posture plays in transferring the stress of vehicle motion to bone and muscle in the head and neck.
RecycleMania aids UI sustainability efforts
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The University of Iowa has successfully kicked off its participation in the 2013 RecycleMania tournament, the national competition in which college campuses compete over eight weeks to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most on-campus waste.
UI study discovers internal trigger for panic attack in the previously fearless
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
John Wemmie, a UI neuroscientist, shares insights from an experiment on how SM, a woman with a rare illness that damaged her amygdala and left her unafraid, recently experienced a panic attack, which may have practical value in the study of panic attacks.
Music and medicine
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Don't be surprised to find Debra Schwinn, the new dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, in the violin section of the UI Health Care Faculty-Staff Orchestra. Throughout her medical training and academic career, she's found time to pursue her interest in music.
UI researchers: how infants learn to look, look to learn
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Radio features John Spencer and Sammy Perone's University of Iowa psychology research into how infants learn to look and how looking helps them learn.
UI researcher finds pursuing new challenges helps to age well
Monday, February 4, 2013
Kristi Williams, a University of Iowa professor of gerontological nursing, says a 2011 study she co-authored found that seniors who challenge their brains, keep moving, eat well, and maintain social connections experiencing positive effects in maintaining memory and thinking ability.
Foster, Porter to read from 'Understanding the Essay'
Monday, February 4, 2013
Patricia Foster and Jeff Porter, faculty members in the University of Iowa Department of English and the Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from their new book, "Understanding the Essay," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.
Human brain is divided on fear and panic
Monday, February 4, 2013
Researchers at the University of Iowa say the human brain has a new, second gatekeeper that registers fear. The region, perhaps the brainstem, diencephalon or insular cortex, signals fear from internal dangers. The finding could lead to more precise treatment for people suffering from panic attacks and other anxiety disorders. Results appear in "Nature Neuroscience."
UI study suggests flu vaccine protects against heart attacks
Monday, February 4, 2013
A study by University of Iowa researchers found significant associations between heart attacks and influenza, particularly in those over age 80.
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