College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Tool created by UI professors tracks political news, sentiments
Monday, February 1, 2016
The group spent at least two years designing the site's algorithms which search social media and find the top trending stories, tweets and more about the ten highest polling candidates.
Beyond the shiny new toy: Next frontier for digital humanities
Monday, February 1, 2016
Two University of Iowa faculty members and a Grinnell professor are using Mellon Digital Bridges funding to take a national lead in humanities/computer collaborations. They aim to see how two datasets could be combined to answer a host of questions about the history of published literary texts.

Study abroad experience inspires UI alumna to create Glassando
Friday, January 29, 2016
While Abby Restko was a UI student, she studied abroad in Venice, Italy, where she discovered Murano glass jewelry. Restko, a marketing major with an art minor, knew then that she should have a jewelry store that offered Murano glass locally. So she opened Glassando in Old Capitol Town Center.

UI chemists uncover how key agent allows diseases to reproduce
Thursday, January 28, 2016
University of Iowa chemists have revealed the chemistry behind how certain diseases, from anthrax to tuberculosis, replicate. The key lies in the function of a gene absent in humans, called thyX, and its ability to catalyze the DNA building block thymine. Results published in the journal 'Science.'
Putting the 'move' in 'the environmental movement'
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Senior Sophia Finster is utilizing art's powerful potential for communication, moving people to change their impact on Earth every day.
McCarty selected for 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Society internship
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
University of Iowa student, Nicholas McCarthy, to write for prestigious academic honor society.

UI Press book collects caucus work of cartoonist
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
In an age when political cartoonists, and indeed all journalists, are feeling the pinch of tightening newspaper budgets, the University of Iowa Press has come out with a title that highlights both the editorial format and the state of Iowa.
Cohen shares how InterPlay is a great creative exercise
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Mary Cohen, UI associate professor of music education, shares how everyone can learn skills to express themselves through music-making, storytelling, and movement. InterPlay is one remarkable system providing incremental steps toward self-expression in any way we choose, Cohen explains.
UI participates in Hollywood STEAM Day at Lincoln Elementary School
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Lincoln Elementary hosted its Hollywood STEAM Day, featuring rooms throughout the school dedicated to teaching students, and parents, how science, technology, engineering, and math interact with art and Hollywood movies. UI faculty and graduate students from several different departments and colleges participated in the event.

Cancer riddle, solved
Monday, January 25, 2016
Using real-time recording of cellular movement, biologists at the University of Iowa have discovered how tumors form. Cancer cells reach out and grab other cells, and as little as 5 percent cancerous cells are needed for tumor formation. Findings could lead to more precise cancer testing.
Getting angry: How rage fuels political and social movements
Monday, January 25, 2016
Emily Wentzell, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa, says that people report feelings of anger when they feel threatened, and current social, economic and political issues are causing many people to believe their way of life is endangered.
Clinton TV ads hammer guns in N.H., shy away in Iowa
Monday, January 25, 2016
University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle offers analysis of how Hillary Clinton's TV ads are an attempt to distinguish herself from the other Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders.
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