2008 Woodie Awards
Conniving landlords, beware.
UI Student Government members are continuing their push this legislative session for a rent-deposit bill, hoping that their years of work will finally consummate in an Iowa law that more severely punishes landlords who wrongfully keep tenants' deposits.
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Benita Wolff, the UI Carver College of Medicine's new associate dean of diversity, said cultivating physicians from different backgrounds is both a national trend and a public good.
Last week, the medical school made public its creation of the new associate dean position, hoping to recruit more diverse faculty and students to a state that is around 90 percent non-Latino white.
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Bucking a 20-year trend, Iowa's prison population is down from last year.
The state has incarcerated approximately 8,700 people, a 201 percent increase from two decades ago. But numbers are down by around 200 from last year.
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It's now official: Pay more attention to the baby in infancy, and the baby will grow up to be a well-behaved toddler.
UI researchers have found that children who have a "close, positive, reciprocal, and mutually responsive relationship" with their mothers in the first two years of their lives will be more obedient and exhibit better behavior.
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Despite not setting foot on the UI campus in more than eight years, East Timor President José Ramos-Horta made enough of an impact with his lecture on April 8, 1999, to stir up concern for his current well-being among university faculty members. (0) comments
Though he ran for Iowa lieutenant governor in 2002 and vice president of the United States in 2004, Richard Campagna is not exactly a household name. (0) comments
Talk to Mark Kresowik, a conservation organizer for the Sierra Club's National Coal Campaign, and his message - and convictions - are clear: He doesn't favor proposed coal-powered energy plants in Waterloo and Marshalltown. (0) comments
A new UI partnership aims to help monitor levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in Iowa's water supplies - two contaminants making their way to the Gulf of Mexico and creating a dead area dubbed the "Hypoxic Zone."
The UI Hygienic Laboratory has joined forces with the state Department of Natural Resources to boost water testing at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.
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Iowa City police have arrested a man who, they allege, sexually assaulted a girl under 12 years old, authorities said. (0) comments
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