College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hagle analyzes Senate race
Monday, March 17, 2014
University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle says the race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Iowa is still up in the air for now.
Worthwhile historical discoveries
Monday, March 17, 2014
Leslie Schwalm, professor of history at the University of Iowa, studies Martha Reno, an Iowan who refused to pay taxes for a segregated public school in 1855 because she was black and her children would not be able to attend.

UI alumna Natalie Niemeyer receives Rising Star Award
Monday, March 17, 2014
UI alumna Natalie Niemeyer, who received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Iowa education licensure, recently received a national Rising Star Award from the Journalism Education Association for her work as a journalism education advisor at East High School in Des Moines.
Big names in short supply in major races
Monday, March 17, 2014
University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle explains why this year's elections for statewide office in Iowa attracted so few well-known names.

A surprising spring break
Monday, March 17, 2014
University of Iowa professor David Gould is leading a group of Harvard MBA students on a spring break field trip to Las Vegas, helping them develop plans that will help redevelop the city's faded downtown.
Online dating still stigmatized despite popularity, success
Monday, March 17, 2014
UI business professor Kang Zhao and graduate student Xi Wang have developed an online dating algorithm that works by tracking a person's past online contact activity, instead of by what they say they're interested in.
Achievements: UI faculty, staff, students, and alumni making news
Friday, March 14, 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.
'Exuberant Politics' exhibition, events continue through April 8
Friday, March 14, 2014
University of Iowa faculty, students, and alumni are presenting “Exuberant Politics,” an international exhibition exploring how today’s artists address social issues, in two eastern Iowa locations: Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids and the new Public Space One at 120 N. Dubuque St. in Iowa City.

UI's African art collection displayed in interactive exhibit, website
Friday, March 14, 2014
UI Art History Professor Christopher Roy partnered with UI Museum of Art curator Catherine Hale to create the “Art and Life in Africa” site, to accompany an exhibit on display at the IMU's Black Box Theatre through June 15.
Symphony Orchestra to perform March 26
Friday, March 14, 2014
The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the UI Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of William LaRue Jones, director of orchestral studies, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.
Former poet laureate Robert Hass to read March 28
Friday, March 14, 2014
Robert Hass, former U.S. poet laureate and University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member, will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

More to biological diversity than meets the eye
Thursday, March 13, 2014
UI biology researcher Andrew Forbes and his colleagues studied fly and wasp species on plants in a Chilean rainforest and found more species than biological theory would have predicted because specialized interactions between species allow a larger, more diverse number of species to live in the same place.
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