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  • over-activated cell

    Live or die?

    Andrew Shepherd, UI postdoctoral scholar in pharmacology, studies cell processes that regulate potassium. When the balance of potassium is disturbed, cell death may occur.

  • Playing as Learning Initiative at the Iowa Children's Museum

    Let the children play

    Research shows that the openness of play - where the process is more important than the product - provides a terrific framework for learning. 
    An initiative by the UI and the Iowa Children's Museum in Coralville will launch on May 14.

  • Saturn (image courtesy of NASA)

    Telling time on Saturn

    A UI undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn’s magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of the Earth’s magnetosphere

  • Daniel Tranel

    Iowa Neurological Patient Registry

    The one-of-a-kind registry, directed by the UI's Daniel Tranel, has enrolled thousands of patients who have experienced brain damage as a result of injury, illness, or surgery.

  • newborn screening

    Fifty years of saving babies

    The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa performs newborn screening in partnership with the Iowa Department of Public Health and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.

  • Ice Age Giants exhibit at the Old Capitol Museum

    Iowa's ice age giants

    Explore ice age Iowa and discover the giants that roamed the state some 15,000 years ago when the exhibit opens April 18 at the Old Capitol Museum.

  • Daniel Reed

    Video: Building a 21st Century Iowa Economy

    "The UI is committed to being a robust and engaged partner with government and with the private sector to translate research into concrete economic value. Working together, we can build the 21st Century economy." - Dan Reed

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Jerry Jackson walking across the street on a raining day

A blind man's daily journey

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 11:23am
Officer Shawn Burke administers a traffic safety check point organized by Cedar Rapids Police in Southwest Cedar Rapids which started at 11:00p.m. on March 29, 2013. (Kaitlyn Bernauer/The Gazette)

The Gazette: UI experts comment on suggestion to lower blood alcohol limit

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:39am

Des Moines Register: UI expert discusses Angelina Jolie's decision to remove breasts

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 9:31am

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Sequestration updates: NIH and NCI

Thu, 03/07/2013

OVPR&ED invites applications for Administrative Research Fellows

Fri, 04/19/2013
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