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'Storytime Adventures' features dinosaurs
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History completes its fall series “Storytime Adventures” on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. with readings about dinosaurs.
Infants learn to look and look to learn
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Researchers at the University of Iowa have explained how infants learn by looking, and the crucial role these activities play in how infants gain knowledge. Their computer model of babies aged 6 weeks to one year shows how infants use looking to create knowledge and to sear that knowledge into memory. The model also explains how infants' looking and learning changes as they develop. Results appear...
Unexpected toughness may mark out cancer cells in the blood
Monday, December 3, 2012
A University of Iowa study suggests that cancer cells are more resistant than normal cells to the powerful fluid forces found in the bloodstream. This resistance to fluid shear stress could provide a biomarker to improve detection and monitoring of circulating cancer cells in blood.
Get to Know...Jessica McConnell
Monday, December 3, 2012
The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with regulatory research support specialist Jessica McConnell.
UI researchers help find way to protect historic limestone buildings
Monday, December 3, 2012
Buildings and statues constructed of limestone can be protected from many of the effects of environmental degradation by applying a thin, single layer of a water-resistant coating, according to University of Iowa researchers and their Cardiff (U.K.) University colleagues. The paper is published in "Scientific Reports," a new online, open access journal from the publishers of "Nature."
Historic gift finds a home on UI campus
Monday, December 3, 2012
The complete work of one of the University of Iowa’s famous alumni has found its home in the University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives.
Zero percent women
Monday, December 3, 2012
Iowa is one of only three states with an all-male Supreme Court, but a new study from the University of Iowa College of Law suggests more diversity can be achieved with a few tweaks to the state’s lauded merit selection system.
Nite Ride to extend service during finals week
Monday, December 3, 2012
University of Iowa Police will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.
Antitrust adviser
Monday, December 3, 2012
University of Iowa law professor Herb Hovenkamp is part of a team assembled by the American Bar Association to advise President Obama on antitrust policy during his second term.
The next step up
Friday, November 30, 2012
When JD Reive first accepted the head coaching job for the University of Iowa men's gymnastics team, his first task was as arduous as the team was ambitious; change the culture and expectations of a program that had fallen on hard times.
Karandikar named head of pathology at UI Carver College of Medicine
Friday, November 30, 2012
Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D., as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.
Dance department presents graduate, undergraduate concerts
Friday, November 30, 2012
The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present a graduate and undergraduate dance concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 6-8, in Space Place Theater of North Hall.
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