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Flourishing as a rookie
Monday, May 7, 2012
University of Iowa freshman pitcher Sasha Kuebel has taken aspects of each of his starts—good and bad—and learned from them, becoming one of the top freshmen in the Big Ten Conference in the process.
Residence hall recycling made easy
Monday, May 7, 2012
Students living in the University of Iowa residence halls can help reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill at move-out by participating in the UI Year-end Donation Drive Wednesday-Thursday, May 9-10.
Driving up insurance premiums
Monday, May 7, 2012
Consumers pay as much as 31 percent more for insurance because insurance companies have to comply with regulations from multiple states instead of just a single regulator, according to new research by a University of Iowa insurance expert.
TV pioneer Edwin Kurtz inducted into UI Legacy of Engineering May 8
Friday, May 4, 2012
The University of Iowa College of Engineering will induct television pioneer Edwin B. Kurtz posthumously into its Legacy of Engineering on May 8. The first public demonstration of a television broadcast developed by Kurtz and his team took place in March 1933 over television station W9XK.
UIMA@IMU closed Sundays May 13 and 20
Friday, May 4, 2012
The UIMA@IMU, a visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be closed for two Sundays, May 13 and 20, when the building where it is located, the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU), is also closed.
Call for honorary degree nominations
Friday, May 4, 2012
Nominations for the University of Iowa awards—which recognize academic, social, and other achievements—are due June 29.
Volunteers sought for Pen Pal Program
Friday, May 4, 2012
University of Iowa students are always needed as volunteers for the University of Iowa Center for Diversity and Enrichment’s (CDE) Pen Pal Program.
Planting the seed
Friday, May 4, 2012
Though a decade separates UI sophomore elementary education major Rachel Revelez and West Liberty Elementary School fourth grader Brian Collins, the two have discovered they have much in common through the UI Center for Diversity and Enrichment Pen Pal Program.
UI celebrates Voxman
Friday, May 4, 2012
The University of Iowa will host a special Himie Voxman Celebration at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.
UI Energy Control Center wins innovation award
Friday, May 4, 2012
The University of Iowa's Energy Control Center project has been selected to receive an APPA Effective & Innovative Practices Award for 2012, which includes $4,000 in cash.
UI professor identifies largest known crocodile
Friday, May 4, 2012
A crocodile large enough to swallow humans once lived in East Africa, according to University of Iowa researcher Christopher Brochu whose paper on the discovery of a new crocodile species that was published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Two Iowa students win Goldwater Scholarship
Friday, May 4, 2012
Two University of Iowa undergraduate researchers in the UI Honors Program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)—Allyson Mayer and Nicholas Rolston—have been named 2012 Goldwater Scholars.
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