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UI launches marketing blitz

Monday, July 14, 2014
The University of Iowa is becoming the “University for Iowa” in its massive marketing blitz that will pepper the state’s malls, airports, and venues with signs; push advertisements via television, radio and newspapers; and hype its message at RAGBRAI and the State Fair.

DeGowin Blood Center promotes 'Live Here, Give Here' concept

Monday, July 14, 2014
The University of Iowa DeGowin Blood Center has kicked off a year-long campaign to encourage the donation of blood and platelets that help save the lives of patients being treated at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

TIER update: Deloitte transitions to Phase 2 review

Sunday, July 13, 2014
The Deloitte team will return to the UI campus the week of July 28 and the Iowa Board of Regents' transformation and efficiency study segues to Phase 2.

Achievements: UI faculty, staff, students, and alumni making news

Friday, July 11, 2014
University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.
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UI entrepreneurship campers create new ice cream flavor

Friday, July 11, 2014
Fifth and sixth-graders created a tasty ice cream treat this week as part of the week-long Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship camp at the UI, which shapes young minds on how to network, budget, and make a product.

Interactive map illustrates lack of affordable housing across U.S.

Thursday, July 10, 2014
The Housing and Land Use policy program at the University of Iowa’s Public Policy Center has created an online interactive map to help policymakers, planners, and housing advocates assess housing affordability trends in counties across the nation.
Christine Grant portrait

Learning from leaders

Thursday, July 10, 2014
The UI College of Education Belin-Blank Center’s Advanced Leadership Seminar draws some of Iowa's and the Midwest’s top young minds to campus next week. The students will meet with community leaders including UI alumna and women’s sports icon Christine Grant and Iowa City Jazz Festival founder Marc Ginsberg, just to name a few.

UI President Mason holds first in series of media availabilities

Thursday, July 10, 2014
University of Iowa President Sally Mason met with reporters Thursday morning in the first of a series of media availabilities planned throughout the academic year.
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Sioux City Art Center welcomes Jackson Pollock's 'Mural'

Thursday, July 10, 2014
The newly-restored Mural by Jackson Pollock, will travel all over the world in the next few years, but Sioux City will be its temporary home from now until April 2015 as part of a state-wide program for sharing the University of Iowa art collection.
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UI researchers find early predictor for preeclampsia

Tuesday, July 8, 2014
University of Iowa researchers have discovered a biomarker that could give expecting mothers and their doctors the first simple blood test to reliably predict that a pregnant woman may develop preeclampsia, at least as early as 6 weeks into the pregnancy.
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Researchers concerned about Iowa climate

Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Iowa flood researcher Larry Weber says severe weather events could become the "new normal" if changes to curb carbon emissions aren't made soon.
Voyager I

Gurnett: Latest data confirms Voyager I in interstellar space

Tuesday, July 8, 2014
The latest data from UI space physicist Don Gurnett's plasma wave instrument aboard Voyager I confirms that the craft has reached interstellar space.