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Floodplain mapping helps Iowans plan
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The UI employs 13 full-time staff members and nine students for the Iowa Floodplain Mapping Project of the Iowa Flood Center. The team, established following the catastrophic 2008 floods, began digitizing Iowa floodplains last year.
Swimming with the sharks
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tom Casavant, director of the UI Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, who is working this semester with the Plant Energy Biology Center in Australia, took part in a 20-kilometer swimming race in the Indian Ocean.
Forbes to discuss 'Evolution in Iowa Backyards'
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
“Evolution in Iowa Backyards: What the Insects Eating Apples and Sunflowers Tell Us About Origins of Species” is the subject of a lecture by University of Iowa biology professor Andrew Forbes at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 22, in the Biosphere Discovery Hub of the UI Museum of Natural History.
Tomorrow's thinkers today
Monday, March 19, 2012
Learn about the research being done by UI graduate students at the 2012 Jakobsen Conference.
Stronger voice for developing countries
Monday, March 19, 2012
An international finance expert at the University of Iowa praised the tenure of outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick and says his departure presents an opportunity to expand the organization’s leadership outside the United States.
Particulate matter and climate change
Monday, March 19, 2012
Greenhouse gases aren't the only factors to consider when making climate predictions — airborne particles and atmospheric aerosols also merit close scrutiny.
The case of the epileptic flies
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Scientists have studied the prickle gene mutation in flies since the 1930s, but only a couple winters ago did anyone realize these flies had epilepsy. The discovery could provide a new testing route for human treatments.
Policymakers need better pollution models
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Efforts to understand air pollution — especially in Asia — have yielded some answers, but an exceedingly complex problem demands more data and better predictions.
Billion-year-old 'theft' powers plants
Sunday, March 18, 2012
How did plants develop photosynthesis — the ability to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen in the presence of light? Turns out they stole it.
What's killing bats at wind farms?
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Some theorize it's low-pressure fields, but a UI pathologist and colleagues suggest a more basic problem.
UI Pharmaceuticals passes pre-approval for topical drug
Sunday, March 18, 2012
The drug-manufacturing unit based at the UI College of Pharmacy is the largest, most-experienced program of its kind, partnering with industry and government agencies on the development of new medications.
Confronting Huntington's disease
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Postdoctoral research fellow Nancy Downing can't cure the fatal genetic disorder, but she hopes to help people deal with the diagnosis and the changes it brings.
UI study: Tweak graduated license
Friday, March 16, 2012
A University of Iowa study finds the state’s graduated driver’s license program, in place for 10 years, could use some tweaking to prevent crashes and save lives. John Lundell, deputy director of the UI Injury Prevention Research Center, says Iowa was among the first states to launch a GDL program, but now changes are needed.
Can biodiversity beget biodiversity?
Friday, March 16, 2012
New species may encourage a chain reaction of biodiversity. University of Iowa assistant professor of biology Andrew Forbes has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the origins of biodiversity.
Gordon: Eminent domain fears justified?
Friday, March 16, 2012
Enterprise zones have raised property owners' fears of eminent domain. UI's Colin Gordon says the fears are understandable, but do not flow directly from enterprise zones.
High levels of MRSA in retail meat
Friday, March 16, 2012
Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Public Health found the antibiotic-resistant bacterium—which causes some 185,000 cases of food poisoning each year—in about 7 percent of pork products tested.
Estate gift supports diabetes research
Thursday, March 15, 2012
A $554,000 gift from the family of a University of Iowa alumnus will establish the Marvin F. Hall Family Diabetes Research Fund at the UI Carver College of Medicine.
Researchers expand dental implant project
Thursday, March 15, 2012
College of Dentistry investigators are studying how nanoscience techniques may help bone and soft tissue adhere to medical devices, potentially making for better implants.
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.
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