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Busy as a beaver: unique partnership helps maintain riverside trees
Monday, April 13, 2015
University of Iowa Landscape Services gets by with a little help from this nocturnal, semi-aquatic friend.
Celebrating diversity catalysts
Friday, April 10, 2015
The University of Iowa Chief Diversity Office invites members of the UI campus and community to celebrate distinctive and innovative diversity contributions at the 16th annual Diversity Catalyst Award Reception Tuesday, April 28.
UI to host leadership summit for Iowa high school students
Thursday, April 9, 2015
A University of Iowa summit on April 15th — which will examine the personal journeys of veterans and their families —will challenge students to rethink how leadership is defined, what it means to lead by example and how mental attitude can overcome adversity.
Study advances understanding of eating disorders
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Building on their discovery of a gene linked to eating disorders in humans, a team of researchers at the University of Iowa has now shown that loss of the gene in mice leads to several behavioral abnormalities that resemble behaviors seen in people with anorexia nervosa.
Considering imaginative power of the prairie
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The Iowa Humanities Festival considers the imaginative power of the prairie as presenters from colleges, universities, and cultural institutions across Iowa highlight the humanities in the Midwest.
UI undergraduates earn national recognition for STEM research
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Kasra Zarei, a University of Iowa sophomore from Coralville, has received a 2015 Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. UI junior and Clive native Alexandra Bartlett received an honorable mention.
Dance department presents thesis concerts April 16-18
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The University of Iowa Department of Dance is pleased to present an MFA Thesis Concert, “The Remedy: A MOVEment MoveMENT,” featuring the work of Duane Lee Holland Jr. and Maurice Watson, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, in Space Place Theater.
Going the extra miler
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
A new study from the University of Iowa suggests managers can improve their work teams’ performances by focusing their motivation efforts on that “extra miler” instead of trying to motivate everyone equally.
Howard Fishman to excavate Dylan's Basement Tapes
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
A boundary-defying performer, Howard Fishman dives deeply into the influential legacy of Bob Dylan with two Club Hancher performances April 10.
UI to adopt tobacco-free campus policy
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The University of Iowa will be tobacco-free on campus beginning this August. The university announced on Tuesday that it will adopt a tobacco-free policy that will prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes, chewing or smokeless tobacco, hookahs, and other nicotine-delivery devices on the UI campus.
More students participate in UI Alternative Spring Break program
Friday, April 3, 2015
More than 120 University of Iowa students participated in Alternative Spring Break trips, making the UI one of only a few such programs in the country that requires students to participate in a common academic course for credit as part of the experience.
Report says schools still shortchanging gifted kids
Friday, April 3, 2015
Far too many high-ability children are still languishing in American classrooms, bored and unchallenged. That's why top administrators, researchers, and professors with the University of Iowa's College of Education have issued a new report, updating their call for academic acceleration for America's brightest students.
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