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An international study involving investigators in the UI College of Public Health and the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine found that people who were overweight or obese during childhood but of normal weight as adults have cardiovascular outcomes similar to individuals who were never obese. More

Related: UI study explains how heart attack can lead to heart rupture

LOTSA LIKES

UI loses game, but wins Facebook faceoff with Nebraska

The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers may have bested the Hawkeyes on the field during the first Heroes Game matchup, but Iowa claimed a victory in The Race to Black Friday, a Facebook fan race to see which school could attract more “likes” before kickoff. Iowa surged in the final hours, finishing with 51,833 likes, about 600 ahead of the Huskers. Visit (and like) the UI Facebook page

MONEY TALKS

Law professor says European financial crisis shows banks matter more than voters

A UI law professor who studies the European Union believes the financial crises roiling Europe are an indication that when it comes to running governments, economics now trumps even the will of the voters. More

HAWKEYE TO WATCH

Wahlin is three-year starter on women’s basketball team

Kamille Wahlin has been through the grind of three seasons as a member of the Iowa women’s basketball team. She’s a three-year starter, leading the Hawkeyes to 63 victories and three NCAA tournament berths. In 2011-12, Wahlin’s position with the team is evolving. More

EYE HEALTH

UI researcher to study glaucoma in dogs

A UI vision researcher has been awarded an $87,480 grant to study genetic markers of glaucoma in dogs, with hopes the research will bring him closer to identifying markers in humans with the same disease. More

PROTECTED SPEECH

Law school analysis suggests legal protection for blogger/journalists

The line between journalist and blogger keeps getting thinner, and a UI College of Law legal analyst believes courts need to develop a way to determine which bloggers should have the legal protections afforded traditional journalists. More

THE BIRDS AND THE … SNAILS?

Researchers receive NSF grant to study evolutionary consequences of abstinence

With the help of a four-year, $876,752 grant from the National Science Foundation, two Iowa researchers and a colleague will study why living organisms engage in sexual, rather than asexual, reproduction. They’ll use advanced DNA sequencing to compare the nuclear genomes of sexual and asexual varieties of a New Zealand freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. More

FIGHTING MS

UI researchers develop innovative protocol of treatment for MS patients

Using an innovative therapy involving intensive nutrition, progressive exercise, and neuromuscular stimulation, UI researchers have observed evidence of improvement in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. More

NATURE GUIDES

UI Press will release field guides on Midwest frogs and toads, and turtles

Two new Bur Oak Guides, Turtles in Your Pocket and Frogs and Toads in Your Pocket, are now available from the University of Iowa Press. Both laminated, foldout pocket guides were written by Terry VanDeWalle, a senior biologist with Stantec Consulting, and feature photographs by Suzanne L. Collins, an executive officer of the Center for North American Herpetology. More

WINE ONLINE

Hawkeye season a ‘mixed bag’

Former UI staff member George Wine shares some observations, opinions, and knee-jerk reactions following another Big Ten football season. Says Wine: “In balance, a 7-5 overall record (4-4 in the Big Ten) is a reasonable finish for a team that had to replace 13 starters, more than any opponent on its schedule. It seemed to me that anything over six wins would be gravy, so I got a little gravy.” More

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

College of Public Health center awarded
$12 million for neurological disease studies

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center in the UI College of Public Health a seven-year, $12 million grant to serve as the Data Coordinating Center for NeuroNext, a national initiative to accelerate the process of turning promising discoveries into new treatments for neurological diseases. More

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How connected do you feel to your alma mater? Do you prefer to read UI news online or in print? We’d like your input on questions like these so that we can deliver the content you want. Click on the link below to take our readership survey (if you already have done so—thanks!), and enter a drawing for prizes. More

MAKING THE GRADE

Ray, Redeker, Osterhaus to receive honorary UI doctorates

The University of Iowa will award honorary doctorates to three Iowans for their distinguished contributions to public service. Former Iowa governor Robert Ray, former Iowa Board of Regents president Stanley Redeker, and pharmacy leader Robert Osterhaus will receive their degrees at the university’s May 2012 commencement ceremonies. More

“He was a very unique man, very sharp, intelligent, very witty. You could see the gears running in his head.”

Myron Welch, retired director of bands for the University of Iowa, remembering longtime UI School of Music director (and Voxman Music Building namesake), Himie Voxman, who died Nov. 22 at the age of 99 (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Nov. 22).

More UI national news

“It’s funny, I grew up a dancer. … So the fact that I ended up at ESPN as a producer of motorsports is like the definition of irony.”

Kate Jackson, who earned degrees in journalism and political science at the University of Iowa, on the trajectory of her career, which has led to her working today on production of ESPN’s broadcast coverage of NASCAR racing (The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, Nov. 20).