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Student leaders hail hometown

Monday, September 21, 2015
Brandon Gerleman and Morgan Brittain say it’s no coincidence they both grew up in the same small Iowa town and now hold campus leadership positions while students at the University of Iowa.
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Building the new UI Children's Hospital

Monday, September 21, 2015
University of Iowa faculty and staff have a unique opportunity to be recognized in the new UI Children's Hospital on a special donor wall reserved just for UI employees.
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Volunteers needed for student recruitment event

Friday, September 18, 2015
Members of the campus community are invited to help with You@UI Academic and Student Life Open House on Oct. 3. The University of Iowa campus will be bustling with 3,000 prospective students and parents.
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UI to hold Deeded Body Program memorial service Sept. 25

Friday, September 18, 2015
The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., in Iowa City.
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Get to Know...Brandon Paulson

Thursday, September 17, 2015
The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Brandon Paulson, adviser with International Student and Scholar Services.
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New UI initiative to help strengthen diversity, inclusion proving to be popular

Thursday, September 17, 2015
So far, a new program offered by the UI Chief Diversity Office designed to help faculty and staff strengthen diversity and inclusion has received a great deal of interest. The BUILD (Building University of Iowa Leadership for Diversity) initiative, a non-credit bearing certificate opportunity, started offering classes this fall.

UI TIER update: September 15

Tuesday, September 15, 2015
As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across academic and business cases.
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10 things you might not know about the Iowa Memorial Union

Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The student union, identified by many as the hub of campus, has been pieced together over its 90-year existence. How much do you know about its evolution?
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Helping kids read, succeed

Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Finding the best literacy resources for children in Iowa has just gotten a lot easier thanks to the Iowa Reading Research Center. The center, which recently found a new home at the University of Iowa, offers creative and fun ideas such as playing Sight Word Hopscotch or Beat the Clock.

Advocacy group announces new sexual assault prevention campaign

Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Starting Tuesday, Sept. 15, the University of Iowa community will notice bold new posters around campus highlighting the connection between drinking and sexual assault. The Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) is rolling out its fall prevention campaign, “My Cup Is Not My Consent.”

Promise and Progress: Recruitment success, student success

Monday, September 14, 2015
The official numbers are in, and the University of Iowa’s class of 2019 is the largest, most academically accomplished, and most diverse undergraduate class in university history. Our real goal, of course, isn’t to admit more students, but to see every student succeed.

Cy-Hawk series game ball makes its way to Ames

Friday, September 11, 2015
In advance of the Iowa–Iowa State football game, students, faculty, and fans gathered on the Pentacrest for a pep rally and members of the UI Army ROTC prepared to deliver the game ball.