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UI study seeks adults with tinnitus

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
People with tinnitus may be eligible to participate in a University of Iowa study examining a method for testing tinnitus.

Did You Know?: Academic All-Big Ten

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The University of Iowa is well-represented on the 2012 Big Ten Winter Academic All-Conference team.

Making big strides this spring

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The University of Iowa field hockey team's 2012 spring season has a bit more international flair than usual, as four UI standouts are competing for respective national teams around the globe.

CLAS appoints three faculty to named positions

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Three faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been appointed as named professors and fellows.

Summertime, and the music will be classical

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
MusicIC 2012, Iowa City’s summer classical music festival, returns for a second year with a week-long series of concerts and other events June 10-16. This year’s festival includes more musicians, a concert and scavenger hunt for families, and an ambitious attempt to theatricalize one of the concerts.

UI Center for New Music hosts festival

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The University of Iowa Center for New Music will host the Third Annual Composition Festival, an event of the Exchange of Midwestern Collegiate Composers (EMCC), with four free public concerts Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.

Anthology of Chicago poetry is released

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry is now available from the University of Iowa Press.

UI Health Care helps launch partnership to fight melanoma

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.
A student studies in a tree.

Hitting the tree-fecta

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
An ingrained commitment to strong forestry practices and opportunities for students has earned the UI renewed recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation.
Colorful abacus.

Actuaries, actually

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Actuaries are expected to be in demand in coming years. But what do actuaries do? Beyond something that involves math and insurance, explanations always seem mysterious and bizarre, something that only other practitioners of actuarial science can really understand.
a globe sits on financial papers

Going global

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A class offered this spring by the University of Iowa is helping entrepreneurs from around the state learn how to take their businesses global.

Genesis, UI Children's Hospital collaborate on joint pediatric specialty clinic

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Leaders of Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City announced Monday, April 2, that they are now caring for area children in a joint pediatric specialty clinic located in Bettendorf.