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Volunteers make UI commencement ceremonies accessible to a global audience

Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Recognizing the desire for family and friends of international students to share in the joy of commencement, the University of Iowa recruits volunteers to interpret the ceremonies in different languages.

UI seismologist discusses "Mars quake"

Bill Barnhart, seismologist and assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, talked about the first-ever detection of tremors on Mars.

UI Science Boosters Club visits Muscatine

Graduate students at the University of Iowa visited with children in Muscatine, Iowa, to introduce them to science concepts, as part of a collaboration between the UI and the Musser Public Library in Muscatine.

UI seismologist talks about "Marsquake"

Bill Barnhart, a seismologist and assistant professor in earth and environmental sciences, appeared on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program to talk about the first-ever detection of a quake on Mars.
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UI Office of Sustainability offers new vision, expands academic and research efforts under new director

Monday, April 29, 2019
The University of Iowa’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment enters a new era of academics, research, and involvement on campus and in the community under the leadership of Stratis Giannakouros.

Kalnins discusses the challenges of merging multiple organizations

Arturs Kalnins, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business, looks at the challenges faced by two churches with distinctly different cultures when they decided to merge.
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UI space researchers forge ahead with instrument-producing furnace

Thursday, April 25, 2019
University of Iowa physicists use a special furnace to produce a key piece of equipment whose manufacturing process was once lost to history. The UI is one of a handful of academic institutions worldwide with a furnace capable of reproducing the magnetic instrument, called a ring core.
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UI to host ceremonial groundbreaking for Stanley Museum of Art

Thursday, April 25, 2019
The University of Iowa will host a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new UI Stanley Museum of Art on June 7, 2019.
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Scholtz named UI vice president for research

Thursday, April 25, 2019
J. Martin Scholtz, executive associate vice president for research at Texas A&M University, has been named the University of Iowa’s new vice president for research. He will begin on June 28.

Skipping breakfast tied to higher risk of heart-related death, study finds

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Whether you eat breakfast might be linked with your risk of dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.

Skipping breakfast may increase stroke and heart risks

Skipping breakfast may increase your risk for cardiovascular disease. The connection, found in a study of 6,550 adults aged 65 to 75, was particularly strong for stroke.
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Iowa research shows connection between sleep apnea, deadly blood cancer

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
University of Iowa researchers have uncovered a link between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma, a rare but aggressive blood cancer. Their findings could improve treatment of the disease.