Early arrival: Baby born prematurely at 29 weeks is now thriving
UI Children's Hospital is home to Iowa's only nationally ranked neonatology program—reassuring news for a Cedar Rapids family.
UI researchers find ending Medicaid dental benefit costly
An UI study finds states gain little when dropping adult dental coverage. Researchers say adults in California made 1,800 more hospital visits annually for dental care after losing the benefit. California spent $2.9 million each year, 68 percent more before eliminating the benefit. Results in the journal Health Affairs.
UI teams up with NSF to turn inventions into businesses
The University of Iowa has teamed up with the National Science Foundation to establish a program for accelerating commercialization of technologies developed by student and faculty inventors and entrepreneurs, especially those developed by women.
Rural teachers, students seek AP classes
Small schools in rural communities often have a hard time finding enough students and teachers to offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes. In Iowa, the state has worked to deal with the problem by offering online AP classes through the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center.
EntreFEST 2015 attendees declare the event a success
Downtown Iowa City was crawling with founders of multinational companies, local non-profits, technology giants, and more during last week’s sold-out EntreFEST 2015, a three-day entrepreneurial conference sponsored by the University of Iowa, the University of Northern Iowa, and Iowa State University. The annual event brought some of the brightest and most innovative people together in Iowa City to share ideas, expand networks, and learn how to launch new businesses or take existing ones to the next level of success.
Poorest students often miss out on gifted education
STEM-talented middle school students in 11 high-poverty districts in rural Iowa are participating in the UI Belin-Blank Center’s STEM Excellence and Leadership program that will build a pipeline to high school AP courses. Economically-vulnerable students often fall through the cracks without specialized programming, according to center director Susan Assouline.
New studies contradict earlier findings on Rett syndrome
UI neuroscientist Andrew Pieper and colleagues at three other universities, show that bone marrow transplant does not rescue mouse models of Rett syndrome, a severe neurological disease that affects very young girls. The findings directly contradict seemingly promising results published in 2012, which initiated a clinical trial for human patients.
UI-sponsored conference brings hundreds of entrepreneurs to Iowa City
Hundreds of entrepreneurs are in Iowa City this week for Entrefest, an annual conference that helps Iowans learn how to start their own businesses, co-sponsored by by the University of Iowa and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.
UI's Butler explains science behind recent airbag recall
University of Iowa provost and engineering professor P. Barry Butler, who hasn't been involved in the recall, was part of a team that worked with General Motors and Ford a decade ago on passenger air bag inflators. They created software to model combustion of the propellant, he said.
UI secures NSF grant to accelerate technology commercialization
The University of Iowa has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an I-Corps Site Program for accelerating commercialization of technologies developed by UI faculty, students, and staff.
The program includes an initiative to increase the number of woman entrepreneurs in particular.
The University of Iowa’s team is the only one in Iowa and one of just 34 teams nationally that are providing this unique training for startups and early commercialization opportunities.