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Twenty-eight University of Iowa faculty and staff members were honored with the UI’s 2021 Faculty and Staff Awards for achievements ranging from excellence in service to leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

A PRiME Center report shows how measuring growth can contribute to a greater understanding of student performance, rather than a test score.

The Press-Citizen interviewed all six candidates in the running for four seats on the Iowa City school board. Heres why they want to serve.

The Current Macroinvertebrates, like this adult mayfly, are critical to our watershed — acting as indicators of overall river health and food for aquatic life, birds and other animals. Special to the Daily Bugs. That word alone can send a spine shivering for some, as they consider all of the creepy crawling insects we encounter on a daily basis — like mosquitoes, black flies, ticks (OK, that last one is technically an arachnid, but causes me to run. Fast). But in the world of water, we love...

Toxic contaminants detected in northerners at levels twice as high among general population The study looked into how people living in remote Indigenous communities were being exposed to these chemicals, which are used in food packaging Share A group of women swim in the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories during a trip with the Dehcho First Nations, a northern Indigenous community where disproportionately high levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) we...

The Arctic and sub-Arctic regions are no longer exempt of industrial contamination. Researchers have found high blood levels of potentially harmful chemicals in people living in the North.

SHARE University of Massachusetts researchers are using fisheries surveys in a first study to assess effects when the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project is built. Vineyard Wind image. Cooperative surveys by scientists and fishermen have laid groundwork for the first baseline study of how offshore wind turbine construction will affect southern New England fisheries, and organizers are seeking more advice for fine-tuning the effort. “We’re really designing this on the fly,” said Steve C...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Covid totals continue to fall, bo...

2021 Education Facility Design Awards The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at University of Oregon South-facing Exterior View from Franklin Blvd. The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at University of Oregon Category: Design Excellence This new campus at the University of Oregon shapes a dynamic ecosystem rooted in discovery, innovation, and education by gathering applied sciences, business innovation, and culture under o...

Scientists are concerned because impacts of a warming Arctic may be felt elsewhere. | David Goldman/AP Over the past five decades, the Arctic has warmed three times faster than the world as a whole, leading to rapid and widespread melting of ice and other far-reaching consequences that are important not only to local communities and ecosystems but to the fate of life on planet Earth. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) issued that warning on Thursday in a new report that summa...