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Berry: Iowa needs more openness

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Journalism faculty member, responding to Iowa's "F" grade on public-records law, notes that the state's open-records law is loaded with exemptions.

Workshop alum Moffett tours with new book

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Fiction writer Kevin Moffett, an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, discusses his newest book Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events. Moffett is described as "one of today's funniest fiction writers."

UI alumna uses dance therapy to improve lives

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
UI dance alumna Susan Rieger says almost anyone can benefit from dance therapy. Rieger uses dance therapy in her new company, Moving Toward Wholeness, to help everyone from a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome to a woman in her mid 50s wanting to build her core strength.

UI professor finds new ideas from old equipment

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments. At the University of Iowa Yasar Onel is using cast-off equipment to design a calorimeter that can detect secondary emissions from particle collisions in high-radiation environments.

Arts campus replacement: $404.9 million

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
The cost of replacing the University of Iowa’s fine arts campus, which was devastated by the 2008 flood, is pegged at $404.9 million.

Nelson values graduation over Hall of Fame

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Former University of Iowa basketball star Don Nelson, the NBA's all-time winningest coach, says graduating from the UI this spring is more important than his possible election to the Hall of Fame.

Students spruce up museum over spring break

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Thirty UI students spent part of their Spring Break cleaning Colorado's Trinidad History Museum for the upcoming tourist season.

UI psychologist shares how lifestyle factors help the aging mind

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
UI psychologist Michelle Voss says lifestyle factors can help offset the loss of brain plasticity, making learning more possible for the elderly.

UI political scientist comments on fall of Chinese politician

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
UI political scientist Wenfang Tang assesses the rise and fall of Chinese politician Bo Xilai.

Durham: Blume was the flywheel

Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Judy Blume's works are coming out as e-books. UI journalism faculty member Gigi Durham described Blume as "a flywheel in the 'Our Bodies, Our-selves' mode of feminism."