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Jodie Plumert named a Starch Faculty Fellow
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has named Jodie Plumert, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, a Starch Faculty Fellow.
UI team performs center’s 5,000th organ transplant
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Leaders of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Organ Transplant Center announced Monday, April 13, that the program has performed its 5,000th solid organ transplant.
Transplants on Earth Day
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Individuals who have received organ transplants at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will perform a transplant of a different kind on Earth Day, April 22.
UI's Bowlus helps design latest American Girl doll materials
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobsen Institute for Entrepreneurial Education in the UI John Pappajohn Entreprenurial Center, contributed to the educational materials promoted with this year's American Girl doll.
UI funding helps businesses push disease-fighting technologies closer to market
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
University of Iowa researchers who recreate deep sea sponge molecules for anti-cancer drugs and reprogram human tissue to fight disease are among the recipients of $750,000 in funding from the university to turn their discoveries into businesses.
UI achieved Tree Campus USA for 2014
Monday, April 13, 2015
The UI once again achieved Tree Campus USA status for 2014.
Why we have chins
Monday, April 13, 2015
Why are modern humans the only species with chins? UI researchers say it's not due to mechanical forces, such as chewing, but may lie in our evolution: As our faces became smaller, it exposed the bony prominence at the lowest part of our heads. Results in the Journal of Anatomy.
Black Student Advisory Committee wants UI students to thrive
Monday, April 13, 2015
The newly-formed President’s Black Student Advisory Committee (BSAC) is hosting a forum for all University of Iowa students on Tuesday, April 14, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s Feller Club Room.
Busy as a beaver: unique partnership helps maintain riverside trees
Monday, April 13, 2015
University of Iowa Landscape Services gets by with a little help from this nocturnal, semi-aquatic friend.
Celebrating diversity catalysts
Friday, April 10, 2015
The University of Iowa Chief Diversity Office invites members of the UI campus and community to celebrate distinctive and innovative diversity contributions at the 16th annual Diversity Catalyst Award Reception Tuesday, April 28.
Old Gold: Solving Fine Arts Building history mystery
Friday, April 10, 2015
The University of Iowa archivist is turning to readers for their thoughts, ideas, and even speculation about a nagging mystery: a long-gone building that once occupied a prominent place in downtown Iowa City, not far from the Old Capitol.
Scientists manage to give mice 'eating disorders' by knocking out one gene
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Michael Lutter, UI assistant professor of psychiatry, discusses his new research on mice lacking a gene associated with disordered eating in humans.
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