December 2016

A new leader for the UI Department of Biology

On July 1, 2016, Diane Slusarski became departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Department of Biology. Slusarski is the first woman to lead the department, and she aims to set a new course while being an example of female leadership in a STEM field.

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UI expertise sought worldwide for industry-leading hydraulics models

IIHR researchers recently built a 1:16 scale model of part of a new sewer collection system to test and validate the design of various underground tunnels for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.

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Kaldenberg, Saletta receive Obermann Center research grant

Erica Kaldenberg, assistant director of UI REACH within the College of Education, and Meredith Saletta, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, have been awarded an Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

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UI graduate student receives doctoral dissertation grant

Crissa Stephens, a graduate student in the Department of Teaching and Learning, has been given a doctoral dissertation grant from the International Research Foundation (TIRF) for her research project called Language Policy and Multilingual Identity at Home and in School.

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Psychology alumna receives early-career publication award

Efthymia Kapnoula, who received master’s and doctorate degrees in psychology from the University of Iowa, has received the 2016 European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) Early Career Publication Award.

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Creative Matters panel promises dynamic theatrical experience at Joffrey Nutcracker

“We have such a responsibility with the Nutcracker,” said Christopher Wheeldon, Tony award winning choreographer at the Creative Matters panel on Nov. 29. “The Nutcracker is going to be many children’s first theatrical experience–the first time going to the theater–the gateway to what we hope to be the audience of the future. Everybody remembers their first Nutcracker.”

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Fluharty comments on relationship between farmers and small towns

Chuck Fluharty, president of the UI’s Rural Policy Research Institute, says that farmers aren’t a big part of small-town rural economies anymore, but farmers still need the small towns.

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Wang researches the lonely shopper

Alice Wang, professor of marketing in the Tippie College of Business, studies the shopping habits of lonely people and finds they tend to be more apt to engage in compulsive shopping.

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A new leader for the UI Department of Biology

UI expertise sought worldwide for industry-leading hydraulics models

Kaldenberg, Saletta receive Obermann Center research grant

UI graduate student receives doctoral dissertation grant

Psychology alumna receives early-career publication award

Creative Matters panel promises dynamic theatrical experience at Joffrey Nutcracker

Fluharty comments on relationship between farmers and small towns

Wang researches the lonely shopper

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