The University of Iowa is one of America’s premier public research universities.
Founded in 1847, and a member of the Association of American Universities since 1909 and the Big Ten Conference since 1899, it is the state’s oldest institution of higher education.
Located alongside the picturesque Iowa River in Iowa City, the University of Iowa is home to one of the most acclaimed academic medical centers in the country. It is a globally recognized leader in the study and craft of writing and home to the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
With over $550M in research expenditures annually, Iowa researchers and scholars have realized remarkable achievements that have established the University of Iowa as a national leader in areas such as space physics, educational testing, creative writing, and health care.
Iowa offers world-class undergraduate, graduate, and professional academic programs in a wide variety of fields to over 31,000 enrolled students each year. One in three Iowa undergraduate students participates in mentored research before graduation.
About two out of seven children are likely bored in their classrooms, as they aren’t learning much that is new. Should these children skip grades? What’s the evidence on grade-skipping?
Police prepare for protests over the police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sept. 22, 2016.
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Despite the website’s hype, Grantland was never anything more than window dressing for ESPN’s brand.
A train passes through the Kibera slum of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Representations of Africa tend to focus on these kinds of depictions.
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For decades, media representations of African poverty have been of disease, disaster, conflict, and poverty and have coloured how the rest of the world views Africa.
Now that Capitol Hill has turned red, the debate has turned to whether this will increase gridlock or not. Certainly from the perspective of the President it will. He can expect vastly more difficulty…
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Timothy M. Hagle
Every four years Iowa begins the presidential nomination process with the Iowa Caucuses. The start of caucus season is also the start of complaints by those who object to Iowa going first in the nomination…
In recent years scientists have discovered the many ways that the brain is activated during sleep. But we’re also beginning to see ways in which the body is activated during sleep, especially during rapid…
Looking the other way: India’s LGBT community campaigned for privacy.
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Prompting international outrage, the Supreme Court of India has overturned a “reading-down” of the notorious Section 377 of the India Penal Code. This, in effect, reinstated a law that is widely understood…