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Schmidt receives award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Frank Schmidt, emeritus professor of management sciences in the Tippie College of Business, received the first Dunnette Prize from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
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UI launches resource page to spur, support collaboration

To help University of Iowa researchers connect with potential funding sources and with one another within and beyond their disciplines and institution, the UI Division of Sponsored Programs in the Office of Research and Economic Development has launched a new collaboration resource page.

UI Youth Ballet offers summer workshops

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
University of Iowa Youth Ballet, a community outreach program of the UI Department of Dance, will offer four weeklong dance workshops this summer: three for children and one for intermediate dancers.

The brain of a tinnitus sufferer

Monday, April 27, 2015
UI neuroscience researcher, Phillip Gander, discusses findings from a rare opportunity to record directly from the brain of a person with tinnitus, which shed light on the brain networks responsible for this condition.
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Study finds swine farming is a risk factor for drug-resistant staph infections

Monday, April 27, 2015
A new study led by the University of Iowa shows swine farmers are six times more likely to be carriers of staph bacteria, including the MRSA strain, than others. Results appear online in the journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases."
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UI opens doors for distance education student in Bettendorf

Monday, April 27, 2015
Bettendorf resident Ellonyia Yenney, who will obtain a Bachelor of Applied Studies (BAS) and a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management from the UI, says that obtaining a bachelor's degree will help bring credibility to her years in the working world and open more doors professionally.
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Turns out satellites work great for mapping earthquakes

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have shown a faster way to use data to assess fault lines, turning over reports in as little as a day to help guide rapid responses to catastrophic quakes, such as the recent disaster in Nepal.

Preeclampsia research launches UI into new national network

Monday, April 27, 2015
The University of Iowa has been working for years to find a cure for preeclampsia. That ongoing research has led the university to a spot in a four-center Strategically Focused Network on Hypertension created by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Courtney Stanford and Anthony Lucio awarded NSF fellowships

Monday, April 27, 2015
Anthony Lucio and Courtney Stanford, graduate students in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, were recently awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students.

UI real estate research benefits Johnson County

Friday, April 24, 2015
A team of University of Iowa students has written the first commercial real estate market analysis for Johnson County in four years, and the report finds the local market to be healthy and thriving.

Learning about the Arab Spring in a global context

Friday, April 24, 2015
The University of Iowa is set to host experts and researchers from around the world as part of the 2015 Provost’s Global Forum, “The Arab Spring in a Global Context.”

UI Theatre announces Iowa New Play Festival

Friday, April 24, 2015
For more than 40 years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Iowa New Play Festival 2015 will take place at the UI Theatre Building May 4-9.