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Tim Dinolfo

Iowa jobs for Iowa students

Friday, January 10, 2014
The University of Iowa offers various programs and services to help UI students land internships at Iowa companies. The internships help students obtain career and professional experience and, in some cases, can lead to full-time jobs.

Students visit UI for career program

Friday, January 10, 2014
More than 100 middle school students from eastern Iowa are visiting the University of Iowa through Project HOPE, a UI College of Education initiative to promote health science professions to eighth-grade students from rural middle schools.

UI improves parking for hospital patients, families, visitors

Thursday, January 9, 2014
University of Iowa leaders today (Thursday, Jan. 9) announced improvements to patient and visitor parking, effective Monday, Jan. 13.

Study: Two-sizes-too-small 'Grinch' effect hampers heart transplant success

Thursday, January 9, 2014
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Iowa have found that a heart's size—and not the donor's gender—can lead to better outcomes for the recipient in heart transplantations.

Media Advisory: West Liberty students visit UI to explore health science careers Jan. 10

Thursday, January 9, 2014
Members of the media are invited to cover a field trip with more than 100 middle school students from West Liberty, Iowa on the University of Iowa campus through the UI College of Education's Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, and Exploration) Friday, Jan. 10.

UI plans stalking awareness campaign for spring

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The UI also has a stalking awareness campaign planned for this spring, with the goal of better educating people on what stalking can look like and how to avoid becoming a victim.
UI home page screen capture

New online look for UI

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The new University of Iowa home page, unveiled Tuesday, is meant to better share the university's story while connecting users with the information they want to know.
Children with the Iowa women's basketball team

Beyond basketball

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
For student-athletes at the University of Iowa, there is more to the story than athletic success, and that was never more evident than during the Jan. 4 women's basketball practice inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

UI research shows unintended impact of college rankings

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Michael Sauder, a UI associate professor in sociology and fellow-in-residence with the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, spent the last semester analyzing the unintended consequences of rankings—especially those in the educational realm.
car and truck with battery jump cables

How cold is it when the economy breaks?

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
A lot of things we take for granted daily—from starting the car to turning on the faucet—were a little harder today: “Things just break when it’s cold..they’re under more stress, and it’s when you need them most,” says UI professor Wilf Nixon.

Possible vaccine to combat staph infections shows value of research

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
If upcoming tests verify the efficacy of a staph vaccine developed by UI microbiologist Patrick Schlievert's research team, that would be a remarkable scientific achievement for the University of Iowa, and it would be an immense contribution to world health.
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The unintended consequences of rankings

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
During his time as an Obermann Fellow-in-Residence, UI sociology associate professor Michael Sauder is examining one of the most influential measures in the world of education—the U.S. News & World Report college rankings.