Impact

Update: Hubbard Park closed through June 6

Friday, March 21, 2014
Hubbard Park is closed for event reservations and recreational activities beginning now through May 17. All current reservations will be canceled through the end of the spring semester.

Sustainable initiative doubles its size to help eastern Iowa communities

Friday, March 21, 2014
The Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities has UI students and teachers in 10 disciplines such as engineering and public health working on roughly 25 different community projects this year.
A young boy does dangerous things: play with matches, climbs unsteady objects and chops wood

Safety first, children

Thursday, March 20, 2014
Children are experts at getting into danger. So, how can parents help prevent the consequences? One answer, University of Iowa researchers say in a new study, is for parents to better understand how their children rate hazards and then use conversation to explain why certain situations can be dangerous. Results appear in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology.

College of Law, Clarke University partner for accelerated law degrees

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
The University of Iowa College of Law and Clarke University in Dubuque have entered into an agreement that will allow undergraduate students at Clarke to earn both their bachelor’s and law degrees in six years.
Congressman Dave Loebsack tours Randall McEntaffer's lab

Loebsack tours UI physics and astronomy research lab

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
U.S. Representative Dave Loebsack of Iowa's 2nd Congressional District visited the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy March 18 to discuss science education and research funding with faculty and visit a laboratory where NASA-funded research is being conducted.

UI students choose alternative spring break in Mississippi

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
University of Iowa students are participating in an alternative spring break to southern Mississippi.

Utilities steam blow re-set for today, May 8, from 8 a.m. to noon

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
University of Iowa Facilities Management will conduct a series of utilities steam blows between 9 a.m. and noon Tuesday, April 29, near the northeast corner of UI Parking Lot 11 at the corner of Court and Capitol Streets.
Don Gurnett in classroom with spacecraft model

Firsthand account of Voyager's interstellar journey

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Thirty-six years after launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft reached interstellar space in 2013. Renowned space scientist Don Gurnett will offer firsthand perspective on Voyager’s incredible journey during a March 25 talk in Des Moines.

Wind energy—past, present, and future

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
P. Barry Butler, University of Iowa executive vice president and provost, will outline how wind energy became a vital part of Iowa’s energy economy—and the locus for university partnerships with industry and communities—during a March 24 event in Iowa City.

Dentistry to have mass presence at national meeting

Tuesday, March 18, 2014
University of Iowa faculty, students, and staff are traveling en masse to the American Association for Dental Research annual meeting, held March 19-22 in Charlotte, NC. Among them is Ericka Recker, a first-year dental student who is a finalist for an international award for junior investigators.

Worthwhile historical discoveries

Monday, March 17, 2014
Leslie Schwalm, professor of history at the University of Iowa, studies Martha Reno, an Iowan who refused to pay taxes for a segregated public school in 1855 because she was black and her children would not be able to attend.

Damiano discusses challenges of reaching elusive target group for Affordable Care Act

Monday, March 17, 2014
Peter Damiano, director of the UI's Public Policy Center, says signing up low- and moderate-income people for the Affordable Care Act will take some time because they're the groups least likely to be aware of the health insurance program.