Impact

Tippie talks 'Life with Phil'

Monday, April 28, 2014
Henry B. Tippie, one of the University of Iowa's most accomplished and generous alumni, will visit campus to deliver the Phil's Day keynote, "Life with Phil," Thursday, May 1, at 1:30 p.m. in the second floor ballroom at the Iowa Memorial Union.
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Shining a light on Phil

Monday, April 28, 2014
Phil's Day marks—literally—the impact of private gifts on University of Iowa facilities, programs, and people. This year's celebration takes place Thursday, May 1.

Patent moot court team takes top honors at national competition

Monday, April 28, 2014
The University of Iowa College of Law’s patent moot court team took first place at the national finals of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Patent Law Moot Court competition April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.
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100th year at Art Center includes Pollock "Mural" in Sioux City

Monday, April 28, 2014
The 100th anniversary of the Sioux City Art Center in 2014 will include the most influential exhibit ever in the city, when Jackson Pollock’s painting “Mural," on loan from the University of Iowa, will be on display.
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Mason City mom reaches career goal thanks to online courses

Monday, April 28, 2014
Thanks to a University of Iowa online degree program, Mason City resident and busy mom Sheila Allison will graduate this May with a Bachelor of Applied Science, a condition for getting the position of Medical Records System Administrator at Mercy Cancer Center in Mason City.

UI Museum of Natural History to screen documentary 'African Cats'

Monday, April 28, 2014
Are you a fan of the Lion King? Come learn how the real-life kings of the savanna grow up as the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History presents "African Cats" at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in Macbride Auditorium.
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Floating new ideas in learning

Friday, April 25, 2014
Iowa City fifth graders are getting a view of the Earth they’ve likely never seen before thanks to a collaborative hands-on learning project with University of Iowa College of Education students and the School of the Wild.

Students, faculty, staff, and alumni honored at Finkbine Dinner

Friday, April 25, 2014
University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Thursday. April 24, at the 97th annual Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.
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In a second language, imagination takes flight

Friday, April 25, 2014
Among authors who write in a second language, Yiyun Li may be best known to American readers. Li came to the United States with fairly rudimentary English to study immunology at the UI, but influenced by the writing community, she began working on fiction.
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After demolition, original UI Art Building revealed

Friday, April 25, 2014
For the first time in decades, a historic University of Iowa building that once housed Grant Wood's studio looks much as it did when he taught there in the 1930s.

Christopher Newfield penetrates 'humanities crisis'

Friday, April 25, 2014
Christopher Newfield, one of the country’s most energetic analysts of higher education funding, will present a public lecture Monday, April 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event winds up the Obermann Center’s Designing the Future series while raising powerful questions about our own future.

University, Concert Bands to perform May 5

Friday, April 25, 2014
The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the University and Concert Bands at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, in the Second Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.