News & Events
Neuroscience study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat
A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.
The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience by researchers in the department of neurology in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the graduate programs in neuroscience and psychology.
Professional Development Series events upcoming
The Graduate College is offering Professional Development Series events during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Following is a list of the events:
Fall 2009
External Funding: Been There, Got That
Diana Crosby (Graduate Services, Division of Sponsored Programs)
Monday, September 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (Beisner Aud 1, Bowen Science Building)
UI volunteers offer writing classes for Oakdale inmates
University of Iowa Professor Les Margolin was five minutes late for class. A typical class might eye the clock, hoping for a day off, but these students were eagerly awaiting his arrival.
Margolin is teaching a creative nonfiction writing class for seven inmates at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center, known as Oakdale Prison.
The myth of the perfect family
Nicole Civettini is intrigued by the myth of the perfect family.
Civettini, an adjunct instructor in sociology at The University of Iowa, grew up in what seemed to be -- on the outside -- an all-American family. Her father was quarterback of the football team; her mother the head cheerleader.
"It seems like American pie," Civettini said. "But my family, like most, is far from 'normal.'"
Based on sociological research, her family is no different from every other family.
Grad students host online discussion on making scholarship public
In the humanities, scholars have traditionally worked autonomously. Digital technologies offer new possibilities for collaborating with colleagues and communicating with diverse communities.
University of Iowa graduate students Bridget Draxler and Peter Likarish are doing their parts to help change that approach and democratize the digital humanities as HASTAC scholars.
TA Training Series offered at UI
Interested in using Facebook and Twitter as teaching tools? How about strategies for keeping drowsy students involved in the classroom experience?
These topics and many more will be addressed in a series of workshops for teaching assistants at the University of Iowa this fall. The Center for Teaching, Graduate College, College of Education, and COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students) are working together to provide more systematic training for teaching assistants.
Urban and Regional Planning brings sustainability to small towns
Students in the University of Iowa Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning are bringing sustainability to small-town Iowa through an educational outreach project.
Twenty-eight students in the yearlong field problems in planning class are developing sustainability plans for four Eastern Iowa towns: Anamosa, Columbus Junction, Decorah and Wellman.
Fall dissertation writing workshops
The University of Iowa Writing Center is hosting two workshops to help graduate students with their dissertation writing, starting the third week of the semester.
Craft Critique Culture Conference
Graduate students in the humanities are invited to participate in the planning of the 10th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference (CCC). CCC is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections of critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy.
Graduate students are needed to help with conference planning, shaping the conference's focus, composing a call for papers, finding keynote speakers, designing programs and/or web pages, and working at the conference.
