Impact

Tom Brokaw’s historic cache of papers will be preserved

Thursday, December 1, 2016
Tom Brokaw, a noted journalist whose career has spanned over five decades, announced that his personal papers will be preserved at the University of Iowa Libraries. The collection, including Brokaw’s brushes with some of history’s most fascinating and frustrating events, will become available to students and scholars beginning in 2017.
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42 years of collaboration

Thursday, December 1, 2016
The Joffrey Ballet debuts its new rendition of “The Nutcracker” this weekend on the Hancher stage, Chuck Swanson, executive director of Hancher, and Ashley Wheater, artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about “The Nutcracker” and the history between Hancher and the Joffrey Ballet.
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UI readies for Cassini finale

Monday, November 28, 2016
University of Iowa space scientists are readying for the final phases of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn. They hope to learn more about Saturn’s auroras, thunderstorms, and rings from a radio- and plasma-wave instrument designed and built at the UI.
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Despite elusive cure, AIDS diagnoses decline

Monday, November 28, 2016
More than 2,100 patients have been treated at the University of Iowa’s HIV/AIDS clinic since it opened in 1988, and it remains the state’s largest such clinic. Jack Stapleton, director of the clinic and an expert in infectious diseases, talks about how a diagnosis of HIV has changed since then.
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UI earns No. 1 ranking in university website accessibility

Monday, November 28, 2016
The University of Iowa ranks first in the nation in an assessment of how accessible its websites are to people with disabilities.
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Maintaining an inclusive campus

Friday, November 18, 2016
The University of Iowa continues to be a destination for international students and has implemented several new programs to help make their adjustment to life in the United States, Iowa City, and on the UI campus as smooth as possible.
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Strong books for Strong Girls

Friday, November 18, 2016
A weekly after-school program founded by faculty in the University of Iowa College of Education is using books to talk with girls at local elementary schools about how to be strong.

Universities’ veterans groups to march 344 miles toward increased awareness of suicide

This week, veterans groups at the Universities of Iowa and Nebraska will be using a 344-mile ruck march not to build strength but to build awareness about one of the most serious issues facing veterans today: suicide.

Office of Outreach and Engagement awards spring 2017 Community Impact Grants

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Community Impact Grants support projects and initiatives that have statewide impact.
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Turning a dream into a reality

Monday, November 14, 2016
The University of Iowa dedicated the new UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital on Nov. 11, 2016. The 14-story, 507,000-square-foot facility will offer private rooms for all patients, eight pediatric operating rooms, a pediatric pharmacy, a playground, gardens, a library, and an interactive theater.
Study Abroad Grand Prize: “Somewhere over the rainbow (mountains),” by Megan Lough, was taken at 16,500 feet in the Rainbow Mountains of Vinicunca, Peru. This photo by Lough from Eagan, Minnesota, majoring in nursing, was awarded the Study Abroad G

Moments captured here and afar

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
University of Iowa students abroad and international students at the UI share their experiences through photography during International Education Week festivities.

Birks wins big at Muscatine Independent Film Festival

Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Matthew Birks, a senior cinematic arts major from DeWitt, Iowa, won big at the Muscatine Independent Film Festival.