Three Iowa colleges highlight research in housing, genetics, chemistry
From housing markets to genetic inheritance to molecular delivery vehicles: Get to know three research projects led by Iowa professors that could play a big role in our future world.
Researchers study effects of landlord decisions during pandemic
Iowa State University
Researchers at the ISU College of Design and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received a $60,000 National Science Foundation rapid response grant to study how landlord decision-making influenced regional housing markets during the COVID-19 pandemic.
RESEARCHERS:
Jane Rongerude, associate professor of community and regional planning; Biswa Das, associate professor of community and regional planning, specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach; Daniel Kuhlmann, assistant professor of community and regional planning; Lily Wang, professor of statistics; Lin Quan, Ph.D. statistics student.
In focus: Recent developments in the energy transition race May 7, 2021, by jaap proost
With the In focus column, Offshore Energy delivers a weekly snapshot containing the most relevant energy transition items from each of the offshore energy markets.
When it comes to low carbon fuels, the energy transition sometimes looks like a race in which the odds change week by week. To make it more easy for the bookmakers, we present some recent developments about the participants in this race.
Young gun hydrogen had a boost this week when ten new companies joined the AquaVentus offshore wind-to-hydrogen project, including Ørsted, Equinor, and Royal Boskalis Westminster. Other major industry players are already on board.
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On today’s 51%, I visit a psychiatric ward in Cleveland to learn how one nurse reaches her patients with tea parties. And we’ll hear from one physician assistant who is trying to educate other healthcare professionals about racial and gender equity.
Remember that old riddle we all heard growing up? A little boy is wheeled into the emergency department and the doctor says, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” Then the riddler says, this was NOT the boy’s father. Who is he? And the huge reveal: It was the boy’s
mother! Then we all had to feel ashamed for thinking only men were doctors.
LMFM By Caitriona Rooney Séamus Mc Carthy appointed as Deputy Principal at Ashbourne Community National School (Ashbourne CNS) Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Séamus Mc Carthy as Deputy Principal at Ashbourne CNS, Ashbourne, Co. Meath.
Séamus joins the other member of the Leadership and Management Team of the school, Ms. Jenny Byrne, Principal.
As a Deputy Principal within the LMETB Schools Directorate, Séamus will also have the collegial support of the Senior Management teams in LMETB’s eighteen Post Primary schools, three other Community National Schools, two PLC colleges and the Centre for European Schooling in Dunshaughlin.
International Day of the Midwife celebrated at University Maternity Hospital Limerick
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Joanne Ahern and her infant son, Evan, receiving a special commemorative certificate from UMHL Staff Midwife, Carrie Crowley );
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The International Day of the Midwife was celebrated at University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL) yesterday, May 5. The day focused on how local midwives have risen to the extraordinary challenge of Covid-19 to provide safe care to the women and infants of the Mid-West.
The event with its 2021 theme of ‘Follow the Data; Invest in Midwives’ serves as a prominent reminder of the importance of midwifery, and the invaluable care that midwives provide.