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Iowa researchers identify approaches for how people recognize words
Thursday, August 29, 2024
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Iowa lands $1.5 million award to build advanced space equipment
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Unearthing mastodon bones in southern Iowa
Friday, August 16, 2024
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UI researchers open hub in Cedar Rapids
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
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Computer Science faculty member earns NSF CAREER Award
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Research funding to UI increases, topping $680M
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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Professor looks to develop imaging technology to study age-related changes in the brain
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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UI researcher studies how pro-family workplace benefits can affect women’s mental health
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Latest Research News
Squeezing secrets from sea sponges
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Postdoctoral scholar Lei Chen hopes to help synthesize potential cancer-fighting molecules from sponges that live in the southwest Pacific.
Why the short face?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Fossils from an Ice Age giant short-faced bear are now on display at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History. The short-faced bear bones are displayed in a special temporary exhibit.
Step inside the BOD POD
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
University researchers who need to know about their human subjects’ body composition can now make use of the latest technology—the BOD POD. And the general public may soon be able to use it, too.
Seeking coal alternatives
Friday, March 9, 2012
The University of Iowa has received a $25,000 grant to help expand its use of biorenewable fuel in the campus power plants.
UI College of Education recognizes faculty with research awards
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Fifteen University of Iowa faculty members received support to fund research projects that represent educational research at its best: “critical, purposeful, and solutions-oriented,” according to UI College of Education Dean and Professor Margaret S. Crocco.
Boning up for better health
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A new clinical trial conducted by University of Iowa researchers shows that delivering high doses of "load," or stress, to bone through programmed electrical stimulation of the muscle significantly slows the loss of bone density in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).
Make better decisions with money
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Money is great for buying stuff, but a new study by University of Iowa finance professors suggests it's also useful for keeping score and might help people make better decisions.
Law school restores Illinois slavery history
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Law professor Lea VanderVelde is working with the Illinois State Archives to make the agency's online servitude and emancipation records database more complete and accurate.
Lawsuits as investments
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Some invest their money in stocks, some in bonds, some in real estate. Increasingly, investors are also putting their money into lawsuits, and University of Iowa law professor Maya Steinitz says governments need to regulate this growing market.
Feeding the research at the University of Iowa
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Where might you find 320 grams of raw apple peels on the menu? In the metabolic kitchen of the University of Iowa's Clinical Research Unit, which prepares meals for human subjects in UI research.
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