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MOVING GIFT
The University of Iowa Dance Marathon will provide $5 million in support over the next 10 years for the new UI Children’s Hospital building, UI and Dance Marathon officials announced Sept. 23 during a public celebration. More
Related: Gift underscores unique partnership between UI Children’s Hospital, Dance Marathon
Related: Gift underscores unique partnership between UI Children’s Hospital, Dance Marathon
ROAD TRIP
The university’s mascot joined a delegation of UI advocates on a trip to the nation’s capital in early October. Between meetings with UI alumni and Iowa’s members of Congress, Herky was able to squeeze in some site seeing. More
ARENA OVERHAUL
Friends and fans of the Iowa Hawkeyes looked to the past and looked to the future Sept. 23, when the university officially rededicated a revitalized Carver-Hawkeye Arena. More
Related: Colorful video art chosen for entrance to newly renovated arena
Related: Colorful video art chosen for entrance to newly renovated arena
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Margaret Crocco, who has jumped right in to her new role as dean of the UI College of Education, talks about the goals and challenges that lie ahead. More
ORIGINS REVISITED
A UI-led team of paleoanthropologists from the UI and the Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, has shed new light on the nature of ice-age human evolution in Asia. More
HEADING OFF PAIN
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Clinical Trials Statistical and Data Management Center in the UI College of Public Health a five-year, $5.8 million grant to help study migraine in children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years of age. More
HOME SWEET HOME?
Chronic income worries and delayed marriage are behind a decades-long slump in home ownership among young people, according to a study by UI economist Martin Gervais. More
GOOD STANDING
The University of Iowa ranks 28th among the nation’s best public universities, according to the latest rankings published by U.S.News & World Report. The ranking places Iowa in a tie with Michigan State University and Virginia Tech University. More
LIKE, BUY
More friends may not be better for trying to generate marketing buzz using social media. A new study by researchers at the UI Tippie College of Business finds that social media users with small numbers of friends might be more influential with their online network of acquaintances than those with larger numbers of friends. More
TOP SCIENTIST
UI researcher Gregory Howes is one of 94 U.S. scientists and engineers named by President Barack Obama as recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. More
SEEING GREEN
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $20 million, five-year grant to build Iowa’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Iowa Power Fund, a state program supporting energy innovation and independence, has also granted the project $2 million to pay for research equipment. The core of the research project will be conducted at Iowa’s three public universities: Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa. More
Related: UI professor receives NSF grant to study implementation of sustainability initiatives
Related: UI professor receives NSF grant to study implementation of sustainability initiatives
BATTLING BLINDNESS
Researchers in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. More
LYRIC LAUREL
The University of Iowa Press has announced the winners of the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize: Joseph Campana’s Natural Selections and Kerri Webster’s Grand & Arsenal. More
BABIES R US
Women seeking a different approach to prenatal care will soon have a new option at UI Hospitals and Clinics. Laura Dellos, a certified nurse-midwife in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will be leading one of two new Centering pregnancy sessions beginning in October. More
GOING THE DISTANCE
It took a pair of All-America efforts for the UI women’s cross-country team to finish 10th at the 2007 NCAA Championships. In 2011, it will take a collaborative team approach and a special effort from a “runner to be named later.” More
SHORT TAKE
Power Ballads by Will Boast, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and Pulp and Paper by Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Josh Rolnick, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, are among the new October 2011 titles from the University of Iowa Press. More
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“It looks as though the prairie plants threw a banquet for the bees, and they didn’t show up.”
Stephen Hendrix, professor of biology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, on the sharp decline of Iowa’s wild bee population over the past decade, which could impact the state’s crop production (Daily Iowan, Sept. 26).
“Listening and communication are important. It’s the same with a church as with any business.”
Alumnus Max Phillips, who earned an executive M.B.A. degree from Iowa in 1997 and recently retired from his job as head of Qwest Communications operations in Iowa to pursue a career as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Bouton, Iowa (Des Moines Register, Oct. 1).
THE GANG LU SHOOTINGS, 20 YEARS LATER
An outpouring of support in the wake of tragedy. More
THE TIMES THEY WERE A’CHANGIN’
Take a trip back to spring semester of 1970, when civil unrest threatened to shut down the university. More
PARTNERING TO DEFEAT DIABETES
The Fraternal Order of Eagles has given $15 million for UI diabetes research over the past three years. And they have committed to $10 million more. More
