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Around CampusMemorial service planned for Bill Davies, Professor of Linguistics CLAS Alumna Fellow Dawn Ainger to speak Friday, September 22 ASL program hosts Deaf Awareness Week events 2nd Annual Sport Business Symposium: Fri, Sept 15 Gazette: UI faculty readying for incidents like Charlottesville A. Craig Baird Debate Forum launching new speaker series Creative Matters lecture series announces 2017-18 schedule History Department launching campus-wide CPR initiative in memory of Dick Kerber, MD Research NewsReport your significant research news Alberto Segre awarded major grant from CDC and pilot grant from FOEDRC UI instrument aboard Voyager 1 spacecraft marks 40 years of discovery Researchers hypothesize how the universe became filled with light Engagement and Outreach NewsReport your engagement/outreach activities Prisoner access to education focus of September conference and new speaker series Chemistry doctoral students lead STEM summer camps in Fairfield Dave Gould's Green Room series spotlighted |
Arts NewsA Tribute Honoring Denis Johnson to be held September 15 IWP Director Christopher Merrill wins prestigious international literary prize Global Express--collaboration between Theatre Arts and Int'l Writing Program--presents readings of IWP Fellows' work NY Times reviews Walt Whitman's lost novel, "Life and Adventures of Jack Engle," published by UI Press Robin Jebavy (MFA, Painting, 2008) wins Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship Pulitzer Prize finalist talks Iowa Writers’ Workshop and creating a space to write UI Symphony Orchestra to present first 2017-18 concert Sept. 27 Awards, Achievements, and Media MentionsReport your awards and media mentions UI-produced ‘Mural’ documentary wins Emmy Award History Prof Colin Gordon's research cited in WaPo article about public education in St. Louis NY Times: Nicholas Yablon discusses possible Babe Ruth signed baseball in time capsule Grinnell-UI Mellon digital humanities grant featured in Inside Higher Ed Deirdre Egan’s ‘eclectic’ background makes her an asset to students at UI’s Writing Center Securities and Exchange Commission names Jeffrey Harris (1986 BA, Physics; 1987 MBA) director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis |
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Lectures/Conferences/Informational Meetings
Inspiration Series: Linda Bolton September 13
2nd Annual Sports Business Symposium September 13
A Tribute Honoring Denis Johnson September 15
Exploring Careers in Biosciences September 19
Life Stories—A Student Panel Discussion September 19
Picturing Climate Change: Communicating Environmental Challenges Through Visual Storytelling September 20
ASL Flim: "What are you...Deaf?" September 21
Deaf Education—A Panel Discussion September 22
Van Allen Observatory Public Observing September 22
Welcome Back to Boom-Bust Oil Prices? September 28
Arts
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Film Club: 'High and Low' (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) September 14
Global Express September 14
This King's County or (the Unwritten Ballad of April & Barker) September 15-16
Guest Artist Recital- Catherine Ramirez, Flute September 16
Live From Prairie Lights: Bennett Sims September 20
Thomas Landshoot, Cello September 22
Mooring September 22-23
The Cimas: A Virtuoso Family in Early Seventeenth-Century Milan (Faculty recital) September 24
University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra September 27
Michael Sakamoto and the Breaks: Remixing the Butoh/Hip-Hop Archive September 29
Exhibitions
Sciences
Professor Scott Daly: "Cooperative Small Molecule Reactivity with Diphosphine and Redox-Active Tetradentate Ligands" September 13
Krysti Knoche: "Bioelectrochemistry: Mediated Electron Transfer and a Hybrid Biobattery/Supercapacitor Device" September 14
Ways to Turn Genes On and Off: Inter-actions of Proteins with DNA and Each Other September 14
Ryan Daly: "Dynamical and structural heterogeneity and their effects in ionic liquids" September 18
Matthew Cook: "New Adventures in Allylation Chemistry: Cascade Reactions to Generate Stereochemical Complexity" September 20
Samantha Nania: "Analysis of Molecular Fluids at the Solid-Liquid Interface" September 21