Parents & Families

Walgreens donates $350,000 for skills rooms in new UI College of Pharmacy building

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
The Walgreen Company, one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains, has donated $350,000 to support an interdisciplinary, multi-use suite of 10 skills room in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy’s new building.

College of Dentistry & Dental Clinics to receive Iowa PCA Underserved Champion Award

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
The College of Dentistry & Dental Clinics will be presented with the 2016 Underserved Champion Award by the Iowa Primary Care Association.

Leadership program makes big leap

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
The UI College of Education’s Master of Arts in educational leadership program ranks No. 17 in the 2016 edition of the 'U.S. News and World Report’ Best Online Graduate Education Programs and the 16th-best program for veterans, thanks to an excellent job placement rate and the flexibility online learning provides.

Iowa Law's 3+3 program helps Mount Mercy students complete law school faster

The UI College of Law and Mount Mercy University have entered into an agreement that will give undergraduate students at Mount Mercy the opportunity to earn their bachelor’s and law degrees in six years, instead of the typical seven. Mount Mercy is the 14th school to join the program.
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Get to Know…Sam Watkins

Monday, January 11, 2016
The "Get to Know" series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and outside interests. Meet senior graphic design student Sam Watkins, who painted eight portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. that comprise an Iowa Memorial Union exhibition called "Keep Moving Forward."

UI recognized for excellence in pain education

Monday, January 11, 2016
The UI is one of  11 Centers for Excellence in Pain Education selected by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. The  centers will help improve pain education for undergraduate and graduate health professional students. 

Boosting mothers' moods

Monday, January 11, 2016
A University of Iowa researcher is working with the Veterans Administration on a pilot program to help female veterans suffering from postpartum depression.
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UI photographers select best of 2015

Monday, January 11, 2016
Photographers in the University of Iowa's Office of Strategic Communication submitted a gallery of some of their favorite work from 2015.

New UI class teaches financial literacy

A new class offered by the University of Iowa teaches students the basics of finance so they better understand topics like employee benefits, retirement accounts, the stock market, and debt after they graduate.

An ode to marching band culture, style, and history in Iowa

Stanford University’s marching band generated a load of controversy at the Rose Bowl last week when it played the FarmersOnly.com jingle. University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band Director Kevin Kastens talks about Iowa’s performance at the Rose Bowl and about marching band styles and culture across the country.
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Interaction during reading is key to language development

Friday, January 8, 2016
A new UI study finds babies make more speech-like sounds during reading than when playing with puppets or toys—and mothers are more responsive to these types of sounds while reading to their child than during the other activities.
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Turning Pasadena black and gold

Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Though the Rose Bowl Game didn't go the way Hawkeye fans would have liked, it was an amazing week for many of the tens of thousands who made the trip to California.