Impact

UI commits additional funding to sexual assault first response coordinator

Friday, August 1, 2014
The University of Iowa continues to make progress on efforts to combat sexual assault on campus and improve support for victims. The university is committing $27,000 annually to support the coordinator of the Johnson County Sexual Assault Response Team and its Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program.
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University of Iowa, children's museum pair up for Play Fair event

Friday, August 1, 2014
Get Ready Iowa, an initiative of the University of Iowa’s DeLTA Center, partnered with the Iowa Children’s Museum to host a Play Fair to teach the importance of playtime in children’s development.

Hourcade discusses work on autism, technology

Friday, August 1, 2014
Juan Pablo Hourcade, UI associate professor of computer science, discusses how technology can help children on the autism spectrum.

Enriching Iowa Lives: 'Mural' shines in Sioux City

Friday, August 1, 2014
Iowa's most famous painting and one of the world's most significant and iconic Modern masterpieces is back in Iowa this summer after nearly two years of conservation work by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles.
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Growing a better roof

Thursday, July 31, 2014
The University of Iowa's first-ever green roof continues to take root as workers install additional plants atop the café section of the new Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building,

Media advisory: UI researchers discuss smartphone app for seniors with hearing aids

Thursday, July 31, 2014
The University of Iowa is hosting a media availability on Monday, Aug. 4 to discuss a study pairing seniors with a smartphone app to evaluate the effectiveness of hearing aids. The research is part of the UI’s reorganized Center on Aging, which unites research, activities in communities statewide, patient services and education and training with the mission to improve the health and well being of...

Media advisory: Genetic counseling for college students

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The University of Iowa is hosting an information session on genetic counseling, an emerging field, in Iowa and around the U.S., in which professionals work with patients on health issues according to their genetic profile. The session is for students at Iowa colleges and in schools in neighboring states who are interested in master's programs in the field.

UI's Tippie College of Business launches graduate Business Analytics certificate program

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The Tippie College of Business is starting a new graduate-level certificate in business analytics (Big Data) that will be offered starting this fall in its downtown Cedar Rapids classrooms. The five-course program will provide Iowa businesses the tools and know-how to get the most out of all the data they’ve gathered over the years.
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UI offers prototype help for inventors, entrepreneurs

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
UI ProtoLabs at the University of Iowa can connect inventors and entrepreneurs with area machine shops in physics and astronomy, engineering, and advanced design and manufacturing that specialize in several kinds of prototypes; the program will help folks bring ideas from a napkin to reality more easily.
Man and Vanessa Fixmer-Oraiz stand by a bamboo bicycle during RAGBRAI

UI student still pedalling for climate

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
UI graduate student Vanessa Fixmer-Oraiz may be done riding her bamboo bike across the state of Iowa, but her mission to raise $40,000 for a bamboo processing tank for farmers in the Philippines is just hitting a new gear.
coal miners

Funding thesis through film roadshow

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Jesse Kreitzer, MFA candidate at the University of Iowa, is touring his short films to fund his thesis project, Black Canaries, an early 1900s coal-mining folktake inspired by his maternal ancestors.

Audio testing at Kinnick Stadium July 30-Aug. 9

Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Testing of the upgraded audio system at Kinnick Stadium will occur over the next couple of weeks. The new system will improve the sound quality within the stadium seating bowl.