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YEAR IN REVIEW

The University of Iowa’s online annual report for 2010–11, Out Front, includes a series of multimedia vignettes featuring success stories of students, faculty, and staff, and a recap of university endeavors in teaching, research, and service. More

LIGHT SPEED

Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity and its speed limit on the velocity of light seem to be under special scrutiny by scientists these days. A discovery made by a UI researcher and his colleagues may clear things up by making it possible to test whether the speed of light really is constant under all conditions. More

STOPPING SUPERBUGS

A new study involving UI researchers suggests that blocking the action of a toxin produced by almost all strains of the superbug MRSA could lead to better treatments for the life-threatening illnesses caused by these bacteria. More

TELLING TALES

William Davies, UI professor of linguistics and one of the world's leading scholars on Madurese language, has completed the Madurese Storytellers digital collection, which features storytellers from the Island of Madura telling traditional stories along with accompanying English or Indonesian subtitles. More

Related: UI to offer M.F.A. in Spanish creative writing

GOING UNDER

A UI study suggests that one-quarter of households that filed for bankruptcy in 2007 would not have been in that situation if the credit regulations of the 1970s had remained in place. More

Related: UI researcher analyzes who ends up ‘housebroke’

BACK IN ACTION

It's been a while since sophomore guard Theairra Taylor has been applauded during an Iowa women's basketball game inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. She has, however, received an emphatic hand recently during practice. Although she continues rehabilitation from a third ACL repair in 20 months, Taylor is practicing again. More

DRUG SAFETY

The University of Iowa is part of a national consortium that has been awarded a five-year grant worth up to $35 million by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to improve drug-manufacturing standards that could cut health care costs, create jobs, and improve drug safety. More

STEERING TEEN DRIVERS

This year's National Teen Driver Safety Week focused on equipping parents with tools to set rules and monitor their teens' driving in a helpful, supportive way. A new UI study, involving investigators from the College of Public Health Injury Prevention Research Center and the Public Policy Center, will evaluate the major role that parents play in promoting safer driving among teenagers. More

HEART HONOR

University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center at UI Hospitals and Clinics became the first program in the nation to receive certification for its cardiac valve repair and replacement program. More

ROOM TO READ

Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956 by leading library historian Wayne A. Wiegand is available, from the Iowa and the Midwest Experience Series from the University of Iowa Press. More

WHITING AWARD

Poets Shane McCrae and Eduardo C. Corral, alumni of the UI Writers' Workshop, are winners of the 2011 Whiting Writers' Awards. This $50,000 award recognizes 10 young writers for their extraordinary talent and promise, and is one of the most coveted prizes for up-and-coming writers. More

VIRUS DISCOVERY

A new study by researchers at Mayo Clinic and the University of Iowa has identified a receptor protein that allows measles virus to enter the airway cells -- the virus's point of departure from the host. In addition to improving understanding of measles virus and how it spreads, the new study findings also have implications for cancer therapy. More
For the Record

“Syria and Yemen look to be next on the list. It’s only a matter of time for those two countries.”

Adrien Wing, a professor at the UI College of Law who specializes in international human rights with respect to the Middle East, on the unrest likely to continue in Libya — and beyond — following the death of Moammar Gadhafi (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Oct. 21).

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Alumni Newsmakers

“The one place to hear the truth, truth spoken to power, is from writers and poets.”

Reza Aslan, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and former visiting professor of religious studies, discussing Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, an anthology that he edited (This Day Live, Oct. 17).

Old Gold
WONDERLAND FOR WINTER: THE SKATING LAGOON

WONDERLAND FOR WINTER:
THE SKATING LAGOON

Holidays (and school days) on ice. More

From the Iowa Alumni Magazine
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

A class uses scientific principles to study paranormal claims. More

Advancing Iowa
A BANNER YEAR

A BANNER YEAR

View the UI Foundation’s online 2011 Annual Report on Giving to the University of Iowa. More