Faculty

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A career in music therapy

Thursday, May 26, 2016
The UI music therapy program, one of only two in the Big Ten, prepares students for careers as professional therapists.

UI graduates finding jobs in strong hiring economy

Graduates in UI's Class of 2016 are finding jobs thanks to a strong hiring economy and the help of the university's Pomerantz Career Center.

Recent deaths

Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.
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Traffic delays on North Dubuque Street and West Park Road

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Starting May 31, significant road construction is coming to North Dubuque Street and West Park Road. Expect 15- to 30-minute delays during peak hours, as well as occasional closures.

UI students win $25K from Iowa Economic Development Authority for startup business

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
University of Iowa student Eric Pahl and recent graduate Dalton Shaull recently won $25,000 from the Iowa Economic Development Authority for their startup business, called Organizer. Shaull was motivated to start the project after watching his friend fight off a disease as he waited for a transplant.
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200 laps, 500 miles, 1 important cause

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Buddy Lazier's No. 4 Indy 500 car, emblazoned with a Tigerhawk logo, will raise awareness for the University of Iowa's Wynn Institute for Vision Research during the race on May 29. The cause is close to Lazier's heart: His daughter suffers from severe glaucoma.

'Two colleges where diversity works'

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
University of Iowa education professor Cassie Barnhardt and Nick Bowman, director of the UI Center for Research on Undergraduate Education, offer insight on efforts to improve racial environments on college campuses.
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Engineering graduate receives 2016 Society ROTC Bronze Medal

Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Amanda McCann is recognized as the outstanding senior engineering student of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

Just Living Student Ambassadors win 2016 Engaged Campus Award

Monday, May 23, 2016
UI Just Living Student Ambassadors named winners of the 2016 Engaged Campus Award.
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Motion-sensing tools deployed in war on pathogens

By employing a video game system’s computer vision in a hospital room, a University of Iowa research team is pioneering an automated approach to track interactions between health care workers and patients, capturing previously elusive data to support the work of hospital epidemiologists.
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Attention, please!

Monday, May 23, 2016
UI education faculty members are using interactive technology to help K-12 teachers improve students' behavior in the classroom.
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Kevin Birmingham receives 2016 Truman Capote Award

Friday, May 20, 2016
Kevin Birmingham, an instructor at Harvard University, has received the 2016 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop administers the award, the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism, on behalf of the Truman Capote Estate.