Faculty
Gardial speaks about women and business leadership
Thursday, March 17, 2016
When women have access to management positions and the boardroom, stuff gets done. So, what's holding women back from leadership positions? Sarah Fisher Gardial, dean of the UI Henry B. Tippie College of Business, responds to that question and others in a recent interview.
UIMA sees record numbers at international Pollock show
Thursday, March 17, 2016
More than 253,590 people visited the UI Museum of Art's exhibition titled "Jackson Pollock’s 'Mural': Energy Made Visible" at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, during the Venice Art Biennale, setting an international record for an Iowa art exhibition.
24 UI colleges and graduate programs in national top 25
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Twenty-four graduate colleges and programs at the University of Iowa are listed among the 25 best in the nation, according to the latest rankings from "U.S. News & World Report."
Teaching tomorrow's nurses
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Through internships, traditional rotations, and dedicated education-unit experiences, UI Hospitals and Clinics nurses like Judy Swafford provide thousands of hours of work experience, learning opportunities, and professional development to hundreds of student nurses every year.
CIC member universities influence research, education far and wide
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
We all know that the University of Iowa has rivals across the fields, courts, pools, and tracks of the Big Ten Conference, but lesser known is the long-standing, high-impact collaborations the UI has with these same universities.
Hawkins Drive lane reduction begins March 21
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Hawkins Drive, from the intersection of U.S. Highway 6 to Finkbine Drive, will be reduced to one lane each direction from March 21 through Aug. 12.
Horse-sized dinosaur sheds light on T. rex's origins
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The discovery of a new T. rex fossil suggests that the tyrannosaur “honed its sensory toolbox before it gained massive size,” says University of Iowa faculty member Christopher Brochu, who studies the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.
UI Hospitals and Clinics included in 100 Top Hospitals study
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
UI Hospitals and Clinics was one of 15 entities honored in the Major Teaching Hospitals category of the most recent Truven Health Analytics annual 100 Top Hospitals study, and received a special designation for high performance and fast long-term improvement.
ATLAS Experiment recognizes Mallik's inspirational work
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Usha Mallik, professor of physics and astronomy in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, plays a key role in ATLAS, a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that is searching for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy.
Beyond professor prep
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
John Keller, associate provost for graduate education and Graduate College dean, says that like those in many other colleges, only 20 percent of the UI’s Ph.D. students will become professors. To address this trend, the Graduate College is working to prepare its students for non-academic careers.
Council on Undergraduate Research selects UI student’s project for Posters on the Hill
Friday, March 11, 2016
University of Iowa student Caroline Wadman and her faculty mentor, Gerene Denning, will head to Washington, D.C., to participate in a selective research showcase called Posters on the Hill. Wadman's project focuses on ATV-related deaths and injuries and will inform educational materials.
Students grow lettuce in an Iowa winter
Friday, March 11, 2016
A team of UI students is growing hydroponic lettuce in one of the university's biology buildings as part of a sustainability contest sponsored by the Tippie College of Business and Frontier Naturals.
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