College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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

Friday, August 15, 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.
UI opera performance

The show goes on

Friday, August 15, 2014
From the latest issue of Iowa Alumni Magazine, a look at the UI Opera Theatre program.
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Media tipsheet: UI experts for back-to-school topics

Thursday, August 14, 2014
To help everyone make a smooth transition, the University of Iowa is offering a list of experts who can talk about everything from helping a child get on the right sleep schedule to what a college student should and shouldn’t bring when moving into their dorm room.

UI biologist comments on bioelectricity

Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Bernd Fritzsch, UI professor of biology, comments on the paper of another researcher, the long history of bioelectric batteries, and their potential future use in the human body.

Iowa State Fair exhibit features large-as-life photos of UI alumni

Monday, August 4, 2014
Life-size photographs of recent University of Iowa graduates who are living and working in Iowa communities will grace the walls of the UI’s exhibit at the Iowa State Fair Aug. 7-17 in Des Moines.

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

Monday, August 4, 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 graduate's art reflects life's journey

Friday, August 1, 2014
Tony Ramos, who graduated this year from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design, creates his art not with a pencil or paintbrush, but with a sensor, his chin, and a laptop: Ramos is a quadriplegic.
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University of Iowa, children's museum pair up for Play Fair event

Friday, August 1, 2014
Get Ready Iowa, an initiative of the University of Iowa’s DeLTA Center, partnered with the Iowa Children’s Museum to host a Play Fair to teach the importance of playtime in children’s development.

Hourcade discusses work on autism, technology

Friday, August 1, 2014
Juan Pablo Hourcade, UI associate professor of computer science, discusses how technology can help children on the autism spectrum.

Media advisory: UI researchers discuss smartphone app for seniors with hearing aids

Thursday, July 31, 2014
The University of Iowa is hosting a media availability on Monday, Aug. 4 to discuss a study pairing seniors with a smartphone app to evaluate the effectiveness of hearing aids. The research is part of the UI’s reorganized Center on Aging, which unites research, activities in communities statewide, patient services and education and training with the mission to improve the health and well being of...

Biologists describe mechanism promoting multiple DNA mutations

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Research showing that cancer development frequently involves the formation of multiple mutations arising simultaneously and in close proximity to each other may one day lead to the development of new cancer therapies.
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UI offers prototype help for inventors, entrepreneurs

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
UI ProtoLabs at the University of Iowa can connect inventors and entrepreneurs with area machine shops in physics and astronomy, engineering, and advanced design and manufacturing that specialize in several kinds of prototypes; the program will help folks bring ideas from a napkin to reality more easily.