Faculty

Jodie Plumert named a Starch Faculty Fellow

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has named Jodie Plumert, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, a Starch Faculty Fellow.
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UI team performs center’s 5,000th organ transplant

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Leaders of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Organ Transplant Center announced Monday, April 13, that the program has performed its 5,000th solid organ transplant.

Transplants on Earth Day

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Individuals who have received organ transplants at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will perform a transplant of a different kind on Earth Day, April 22.
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UI's Bowlus helps design latest American Girl doll materials

Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobsen Institute for Entrepreneurial Education in the UI John Pappajohn Entreprenurial Center, contributed to the educational materials promoted with this year's American Girl doll.

UI funding helps businesses push disease-fighting technologies closer to market

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
University of Iowa researchers who recreate deep sea sponge molecules for anti-cancer drugs and reprogram human tissue to fight disease are among the recipients of $750,000 in funding from the university to turn their discoveries into businesses.

Andrea Gutman selected as Early Career Policy Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience

Monday, April 13, 2015
Andrea Gutman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, has been selected as one of 10 fellows in the 2015 Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) Early Career Policy Fellows, a program for early career neuroscientists to learn how to become effective advocates for science.

William Kurth elected American Geophysical Union Fellow

Monday, April 13, 2015
William S. Kurth, a research scientist in the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, was elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow.

UI achieved Tree Campus USA for 2014

Monday, April 13, 2015
The UI once again achieved Tree Campus USA status for 2014.
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Why we have chins

Monday, April 13, 2015
Why are modern humans the only species with chins? UI researchers say it's not due to mechanical forces, such as chewing, but may lie in our evolution: As our faces became smaller, it exposed the bony prominence at the lowest part of our heads. Results in the Journal of Anatomy.

Black Student Advisory Committee wants UI students to thrive

Monday, April 13, 2015
The newly-formed President’s Black Student Advisory Committee (BSAC) is hosting a forum for all University of Iowa students on Tuesday, April 14, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s Feller Club Room.
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Hancher to present 'All Recipes Are Home'

Monday, April 13, 2015
The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present "All Recipes Are Home" April 17-18 at the Johnson County Fairgrounds. This new play, co-commissioned by Hancher and created by Iowa City’s Working Group Theatre, explores how food, farming, sustainability, and agriculture affect our lives and culture.
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Busy as a beaver: unique partnership helps maintain riverside trees

Monday, April 13, 2015
University of Iowa Landscape Services gets by with a little help from this nocturnal, semi-aquatic friend.