Parents & Families

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RVAP’s executive director talks expanding services, importance of being involved

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Adam Robinson, executive director of the University of Iowa’s Rape Victim Advocacy Program, sits down with “Iowa Now” to talk about RVAP’s objective, its new team members, and its plans for the future.

UI thanks Henry Tippie for his generosity on 90th birthday

The university is thanking Henry Tippie, namesake of the university’s Tippie College of Business, on his 90th birthday for his many decades of generosity.

Dance group builds confidence, character

Monday, January 23, 2017
UI Breakers, a University of Iowa student organization dedicated to breakdancing and hip-hop culture, creates camaraderie among its members—even as they “battle” against one another—and boosts their confidence in the process.

UI biologists identify reproductive traffic cop

Friday, January 20, 2017
University of Iowa researchers have found a protein that regulates how chromosomes pair up and pass genetic information. FDK-6 dictates the speed at which maternal and paternal chromosome strands move and join in roundworms. The findings were published online this month in “The Journal of Cell Biology.”
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Presidential message: A call to action

Thursday, January 19, 2017
UI President Bruce Harreld addresses the recently announced reduction in state funding and asks the campus community for its support.

UI announces new Campus Inclusion Team

Wednesday, January 18, 2017
The University of Iowa is launching a new Campus Inclusion Team to help students deal with bias concerns on campus.

Lockwood comments on consolidation of student fees

UI Registrar Larry Lockwood discusses efforts by the university in recent years to consolidate and reduce student fees and to make them more transparent.
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Helping high schoolers manage money

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Finance majors in the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business meet every week with students from Iowa City High School and Iowa City West High School to mentor and to teach financial-literacy skills.
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A quark like no other

Friday, January 13, 2017
University of Iowa physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search to confirm the existence of a particle believed to give mass to all matter. Her group helped build and operates a sub-detector to search for bottom quarks, which are thought to appear when a Higgs boson decays.
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What role do supermassive black holes play when galaxies merge?

Thursday, January 12, 2017
Galaxies are merging all the time, even our own galaxy, the Milky Way. But how these mergers occur isn’t entirely clear. University of Iowa astrophysicist Hai Fu will use a National Science Foundation grant to find and characterize supermassive black holes associated with merging galaxies.
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Theme Semester 2017: Our Lives Online

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
How have the Internet and technology changed us? Let’s take a closer look. Our Lives Online events begin with the UI’s WorldCanvass program at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, and speaker Luvvie Ajayi at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

Iowa goal-setting expert advises on New Year’s resolutions

Mark Archibald helps undergraduate students in the Tippie College of Business set goals for themselves, and he suggests people should be specific when deciding on a New Year's resolution.