Faculty

Explaining the e-book lawsuit

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Law professor Herbert Hovenkamp and UI Press director James McCoy explain what's behind the e-book price-fixing lawsuit.

Free head and neck cancer screening offered at UI

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Specialists in the UI Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery will offer free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, April 25, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

Gurnett captures space "speech"

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
With the Cassini spacecraft, physicist Donald Gurnett captured sounds that to some sound like alien speech. (Editor's note: site is Ukranian; embedded YouTube video documents the space sounds.)

Village is really a nursing home

Monday, April 16, 2012
Marianne Smith, UI assistant professor of nursing specializing in dementia care, comments on an innovative Dutch nursing home that looks and operates like a village.
Fabian Veron and Analia Bouter

Miracle morgue baby

Monday, April 16, 2012
UI premature infant specialist Edward Bell explains how Argentina's "miracle morgue baby," who survived 12 hours without assistance before being discovered alive, could have been declared dead.

Celebrating three major composers

Monday, April 16, 2012
The Jazz Repertory Ensemble of the University of Iowa School of Music will celebrate the work of three major composer/arrangers in April 19 and May 3 concerts at the Mill restaurant.

CNM Ensemble launches spring tour

Monday, April 16, 2012
The University of Iowa Center for New Music Ensemble will launch a spring tour with a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 19, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Hemley explores immersion

Monday, April 16, 2012
Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will introduce his new book, "A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel," in a free event at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream at www.writinguniversity.org.
Man kneels by grave stones.

The law and the Bosnian break-up

Monday, April 16, 2012
University of Iowa law professor Mark Osiel says the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, has been only partially successful in giving justice for the war's victims.

Two UI faculty members awarded Guggenheim fellowships

Friday, April 13, 2012
Faculty members Judith Pascoe and Steven Ungar are among this year's list of Guggenheim Fellows.

Faculty honored at annual CLAS celebration

Friday, April 13, 2012
More than 60 faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be honored at a public celebration and reception April 16.

Recent deaths

Friday, April 13, 2012
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.