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

Friday, April 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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One chance to see great golf

Friday, April 11, 2014
Fans of the University of Iowa baseball and softball teams have almost 40 combined opportunities to watch their favorite teams compete on campus in Iowa City in the spring. The Hawkeye men’s golf team has one chance to show their fans what they can do on the course.

Study shows differences between top, bottom performers

Friday, April 11, 2014
A study by University of Iowa management professor Ernest O'Boyle found that when looking at performance across high-skill jobs, a substantial number of star performers dominated while many of the rest fell below average.
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Hidden conflicts can increase 401k costs

Friday, April 11, 2014
Research from UI finance professor Ashish Tiwari finds that hidden conflicts of interest by financial managers can increase mutual fund fees and reduce 401k performance.
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Selfies can be bad for body self-image

Friday, April 11, 2014
Researchers from the University of Iowa found that the more time women spent on Facebook, the more they are likely to pay attention to their physical appearance. They are also more likely to feel negative after viewing the photos of other people.

Pentacrest Museums plan Family Weekend fun

Friday, April 11, 2014
Travel back to the Ice Age, forward to a future in outer space, north to the Arctic, or south to Cape Fear during a weekend of fun for all ages as the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums host Family Weekend Saturday and Sunday, April 19 and 20.
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Students treated to freebies in honor of spring

Friday, April 11, 2014
Spring is always greeted with welcome arms on campus, but this year's frigid Midwestern winter has made the change in temperatures even more inviting for embraces in Iowa City.

Recent deaths

Friday, April 11, 2014
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Workshop grads Kelsey, Bogue Hartigan to read April 18

Friday, April 11, 2014
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates Karla Kelsey and Endi Bogue Hartigan will read from their new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press at 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.
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Young inventors present big ideas April 19

Thursday, April 10, 2014
Iowa’s brightest elementary students will present their inventions at the 27th annual Invent Iowa competition Saturday, April 19, from 12:30 to 4:20 p.m. The event will take place at the Blank Honors Center on the University of Iowa campus and is free and open to the public.
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Bullying 101

Thursday, April 10, 2014
Moved by heartbreaking headlines, University of Iowa faculty and researchers join the national movement against bullying.
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Wasserman: 'We need a dose of humility in our evaluation of other species'

Thursday, April 10, 2014
The ability to extract important information from a busy environment has long been thought to be a hallmark of human intelligence, but new UI research suggests that pigeons, and likely other creatures too, are also able to make quick decisions about which objects belong in certain groups.