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Homecoming 2017, in pictures

Monday, October 9, 2017
From performances by the Iowa Spirit Squad and Alumni Band to homecoming royalty cruising in Corvettes, Hawkeye pride was on display at the 2017 homecoming parade and game. Check out a gallery of the festivities that led up to Iowa’s victory over Illinois.
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UI announces second finalist for vice president for medical affairs and dean of medicine

Sunday, October 8, 2017
A university search committee has announced the second final candidate for the next University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

Co-chairs named for vice president for research and economic development search committee

Thursday, October 5, 2017
University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld has named faculty members David Gier and Aliasger Salem co-chairs of the search committee tasked with selecting the next vice president for research and economic development.

President Harreld: Resilient UI looks to the future

Thursday, October 5, 2017
University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld considers the UI’s resiliency and its forward-thinking stance on everything from creative writing to computer engineering.

UI’s nonprofit resource center adds to services offered at Des Moines’ Iowa Higher Education Center

The Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center is expanding the services it offers to Iowa nonprofit organizations and opening a second office in Des Moines, adding to the university services offered at the Iowa Center for Higher Education.

UI's Fluharty, Dustin Gordon look at why fewer rural students are going to college

Fewer and fewer graduates of rural high schools are going to college. Charles Fluharty, director of UI's Rural Policy Research Institute, and Tippie College of Business student Dustin Gordon, from Sharpburg, Iowa (population: 89), look at possible reasons why.

Schott discusses how rural Iowa towns are responding to larger Latino populations

Jeff Schott, director of the UI's Institute of Public Affairs, says increased Latino immigration has revived many Iowa towns, but the change can prove difficult.
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Iowa Women’s Archives turns 25

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA) has been preserving the history of Iowa women, their families, and their communities for a quarter-century.

Program prods UI students to pursue their potential

Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The aim of the Be Better @ Iowa initiative is to make the University of Iowa a destination for tomorrow’s leaders. All incoming students take an online assessment to determine their top strengths. Programming throughout the year then shows students how to use that information to their advantage.
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Everything you need to know to fight phishing

Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Organizations like the University of Iowa are attractive targets for phishers—crooks who use bogus email messages to steal account passwords and other sensitive info. But a handful of tips can help anyone avoid the bait.
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UI nabs $1.25 million NASA award to conceptualize mission studying magnetic fields of Earth, sun

Tuesday, October 3, 2017
A team led by University of Iowa physicist Craig Kletzing has won a $1.25 million grant from NASA to conceptualize a mission that would study the mysterious, powerful interactions between the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth.

UI-developed STEM curriculum to be used in national teaching event

Monday, October 2, 2017
A curriculum developed at the University of Iowa that teaches STEM concepts to high school students will be used during the Day of Design, a national STEM education program, held on Oct. 6.