Faculty

UI TIER: Beta site for University Shared Services leads to faster supply delivery, savings

Monday, October 5, 2015
As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here's one example of how TIER is already at work on campus.
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Faster food

Monday, October 5, 2015
An app developed by UI students will let sports fans order food from their seats so they don't miss any of the action while waiting in line at concession stands.

UI receives $2.2 million and is named Prevention Epicenter by CDC

Monday, October 5, 2015
The CDC has awarded a total of $11 million to six academic institutions, including the University of Iowa, to identify possible new and improved ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases like Ebola in health care facilities.

Promise and Progress: Education collaboration

Monday, October 5, 2015
This week marks the grand opening of the Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa Research Park. There’s nothing like it in Iowa, nor anywhere else in the country.
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A stand-up solution

Friday, October 2, 2015
According to a new University of Iowa study, employees with sit-stand desks stood 60 minutes more a day at work compared with their co-workers with sitting desks, and they continued to do so long after their newfangled desks lost their novelty.

UI TIER update: October 1

Friday, October 2, 2015
As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across academic and business cases.

UI College of Engineering students named Tau Beta Pi scholars

Thursday, October 1, 2015
Four UI engineering students were honored as Tau Beta Pi Scholars.

Fred Stern receives Department of Defense grant

Thursday, October 1, 2015
Engineering professor Fred Stern will conduct U.S. Navy research with $470,170 grant.
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Get to Know...Kelli Haught

Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today, we visit with Kelli Haught, assistant director of banquet and catering operations for University Catering.

UI's Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center awarded $7.4 million grant renewal

Thursday, October 1, 2015
The University of Iowa, Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center has received a five-year, $7.4 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance its work on finding treatments for muscular dystrophies.
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UI makes list of 'Best Value' for colleges of education

Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The University of Iowa has some of the highest quality and most affordable teacher preparation programs in the state. The UI College of Education teacher preparation programs in elementary and secondary education made the “Best Value” colleges of education list in Iowa, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality.
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Finding her voice

Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Homeira Qaderi, a writer from Afghanistan who has exposed the Taliban's inhumane treatment of women, is a resident in the UI's International Writing Program. Despite threats and challenges, she remains steadfast in her cause to improve the lives of women under Taliban rule.