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UI-developed mobile app aims to save lives of car crash victims
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
With the click of just a few buttons on a smartphone, TraumaHawk enables state troopers to share photos and information from a crash scene with trauma doctors long before a patient arrives in the emergency room.
Business college plans to grow bigger and better
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
As the undergraduate dean in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, Ken Brown draws on his experience as a father. Every day he strives to make Tippie the kind of place where his young daughters would have a great educational experience and be successful.
Job and internship fair brings 160 employers to UI students Feb. 25
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
American employers are hiring again, and that economic improvement means another record number of organizations will be represented at this spring’s career fair, with hundreds of jobs, internships, and other career opportunities waiting for University of Iowa students on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Iowa Memorial Union.
M.B.A. students consult with Iowa businesses to help them grow
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
A spring semester course required of all first-year students in the Tippie School of Management’s full-time M.B.A. program givens them an opportunity to gain experience by working with real-life clients on real-life business challenges.
Home concerts kick off Dancers in Company tour
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The University of Iowa’s premier touring repertory company, Dancers in Company, splashes onto campus with its hugely popular home concert at 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 26-28, in Space Place Theater.
Steering teens safe
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
How do we best prepare the next generation of drivers? That topic will be the focus of the upcoming Hawkeye Lunch and Learn event, as Corinne Peek-Asa presents “Steering Teens Safe: How Research Has Informed Best Practices for New Drivers.” The event will be held at noon, Wednesday, March 4, in the Iowa Memorial Union Iowa Theater.
West Virginia oil train derailment renews concerns about aging rails
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Commenting on a West Virginia oil train derailment and fire, Albert Ratner, University of Iowa associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, says that trains carrying oil through populated areas pose a high risk of disaster.
The story of a modern masterpiece
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Jackson Pollock’s Mural, considered by many to be the most important modern American painting ever made, is trying out a new medium: motion pictures.
UI College of Education reaches fundraising goal of $30 million
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The University of Iowa College of Education recently celebrated a major fundraising milestone, reaching its goal of raising $30 million. The fundraising campaign, part of the university-wide campaign "For Iowa. Forever More," started in 2008 and will end in December 2016.
Fixes for VA hospitals (and patients) a major health victory
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
University of Iowa infectious disease specialists Dan Diekema and Eli Perencevich discuss programs and methods being used to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
Our amazingly plastic brains
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
A University of Iowa study on the benefit of exercise on mild to moderate Parkinson's disease is cited in an article about neuroplasticity.
UI's Bowlus helps develop newest American Girl doll
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Dawn Bowlus, director of the UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship, helped American Girl develop support materials for its latest doll, an entrepreneur.
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