College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Celebrating Excellence awards recognize discovery, innovation
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development held its Celebrating Excellence: Discovery and Innovation Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 28. The annual event recognizes faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, and mentors who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments to research in their field.
UI names outstanding teaching assistants
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The University of Iowa recently named the recipients of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
UI studies safer road use by texting pedestrians
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
University of Iowa experts are conducting research to determine whether college students and others will pay attention to a system that alerts individuals to potential traffic danger as they are texting and walking along roadways.
DeLTA Center celebrates new home, interdisciplinary research
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The DeLTA Center, an interdisciplinary research community at the University of Iowa, will recognize research from the past year during its third annual DeLTA Day celebration Friday, May 1, at the Athletic Hall of Fame.
Dance undergraduates to showcase their work May 7-9
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Undergraduate dance majors in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will have the opportunity to present their choreography to the public during the Undergraduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall.
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.
Turns out satellites work great for mapping earthquakes
Monday, April 27, 2015
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.
Celebrating 25 years of Hubble: researchers share notable space photos
Friday, April 24, 2015
Hubble turns 25, and University of Iowa researchers share some of the pictures they've been able to snap in the telescope's lifetime.
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