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Let’s just mitigate climate change, conserve precious water, preserve species, and reduce our collective footprints without global treaties or comprehensive national legislation.

The University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence (HWCE) in the College of Public Health will host its “Total Worker Health Symposium: Safe, Healthy and Cost-Effective Solutions” on November 29-30 at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, Iowa.

Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves returns for her third Hancher performance Dec. 7, ushering in the holidays and wrapping up Hancher's 2012 programming.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason recently assumed the post of board chair of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities during its 125th annual meeting in Denver.

University of Iowa scientists have discovered a new cause of neonatal hydrocephalus. The team discovered that cell-signaling defects disrupt immature brain cells involved in normal brain development. Treatment with lithium bypasses the defect in mice and reduces the hydrocephalus.

Susan Assouline has been named the new director of the University of Iowa College of Education's Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

An international research team that includes a University of Iowa investigator has successfully identified two areas of the human genome associated with a childhood disorder that leads to a premature closure of the bony plates of the skull. The study is published online in the journal Nature Genetics.

The Macbride Nature Recreation Area is home to various environmental education programs, and the bird blind. "Iowa Now" spent a couple hours at the bird blind recently to see what happened by.

Iowa Now will publish on a lighter schedule the week of Thanksgiving, Monday, Nov. 19 through Friday, Nov. 23.

The University of Iowa takes very seriously any allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace and as a result, will implement a series of changes intended to positively impact student-athlete advising and compliance in the department of athletics moving forward.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of psychiatry, who holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Scientific Research Award, honoring her contributions to the understanding of schizophrenia.