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Sep 29, 2020

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Both databases are multidisciplinary and allow you to measure scholarly impact. This hands-on session will show you • how to quickly find the articles you need for you research or systematic review in each database • how to track an article’s cited and citing references in each database • how to find journal ‘Impact Factors’ using the Journal Citation Reports of Web of Science • how to determine an author’s h-index • how to identify a researcher and her/his publication track with Scopus...

Sep 29, 2020

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

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Sep 29, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This hands on session will help you improve your searching through best practices for basic and advanced searching and show you features for saving or exporting citations. The session will also help you understand medical subject headings (MeSH) and how they improve your search as well as the benefits of a MyNCBI account. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the class time.

Sep 30, 2020

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Join Brian Volk-Weiss (98BA), the founder and CEO of The Nacelle Company and Comedy Dynamics, who has produced and directed stand-up specials and comedy albums for comedians Kevin Hart, Ali Wong, Jim Gaffigan, and Tiffany Haddish. The UI communication studies graduate has guided the award-winning Comedy Dynamics to becoming the nation’s largest independent producer and distributor of one-hour comedy specials. Volk-Weiss produced Netflix’s Down to Earthwith Zac Efron, The Movies That Made U...

Sep 30, 2020

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Sarah J. Jackson, PhD Presidential Associate Professor,  Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Sarah J. Jackson studies how media, journalism, and technology  are used by and represent marginalized publics, with a focus  on how communication arising from Black, feminist,  and activist spaces contribute to US progress. “#HashtagActivisim: Networks of Race & Gender Justice” Interested in attending? Email SJMC@uiowa.edu for Zoom instructions.  (SJMC students wil...

Oct 1, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD  

Oct 1, 2020

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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The purpose of this hands-on class is to introduce several resources found on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office website that may be used to locate information on patents, trademarks and patent applications. Google’s patent searching feature will be also be highlighted as a source for finding information on patents. Taught by Kari Kozak (Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library). PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoo...

Oct 1, 2020

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Addressing Clinical Inertia in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes by Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD

Oct 3, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016) Quey (pp. 49–86) James (pp. 87–109) Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events. Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following meeti...

Oct 5, 2020

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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Take a tour of some new (and some well-established) apps for your mobile device or smart phone! At this informal workshop, you’ll not only be shown a variety of tools for both academic and clinical use but also invited to share your own examples and experiences. If you don’t have a mobile device, don’t worry: The only necessary smart device is you! PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 30 minutes before the cl...

Oct 6, 2020

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. Positive strand RNA virus T cell receptor interference: Do mechanisms alter T cell fate? Jack Stapleton, MD Professor of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa  

Oct 7, 2020

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Join Sheri Salata (80BBA), an author, speaker, and producer, who worked with Oprah Winfrey for 20 years. Salata’s 2019 memoir, The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation, was named an Amazon best-selling new release and an Apple Must Listen audiobook. Her five-year stint as the final executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show is featured in the docuseries Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes. Salata served as president of Harpo Studios and the Oprah Winf...

Oct 7, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Featuring Erica Cole (19BA) Founder, No Limbits; Nico Aguilar (11BS, 14MHA, 14MPH) CEO, Speeko; Kaylee Williams (11BA) President, VolunteerLocal Life after college brings unexpected challenges—and the answers aren’t always a Google search away. Gain some helpful perspectives in this transition by hearing from fellow recent graduates who are experiencing the same real-life situations. Join us for fun conversation and practical takeaways on living your best life after college. Our virtual Li...

Oct 8, 2020

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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EndNote is a reference management tool that helps you to easily gather together your references in one place, organize them, and then insert them into papers and format them in a style of your choosing. This session will walk you through the basics of using EndNote to collect and format your citations. The class will be hands-on and there will be time for questions at the end. PLEASE NOTE Class will be taught via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom ...

Oct 10, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Join Brady Plunger, associate curator of education, for a discussion about artists who were also immigrants (like Hans Hofman and Lil Picard). We’ll explore how the movement of people and ideas into, out of, and around the US created new possibilities for artists during the first half of the 20th Century. Join us on Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96932650776 Saturdays at the Stanley brings the museum’s collection to you in a casual, fun, and interactive atmosphere. Each event has a theme – ...

Oct 10, 2020

7:00 PM

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Drive in to a special Dive In with the Stanley presentation on Saturday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m. CDT! You can sit in your car and watch UI Stanley Museum of Art Director Lauren Lessing on the big screen—in Lot 55 of the Levitt Center for University Advancement—as she discusses "big pictures" from the museum’s collection with Brady Plunger, associate curator of education at the UI Stanley Museum of Art. We are delighted to partner with the Summer of the Arts of Iowa City on this exciting ev...

Oct 13, 2020

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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This 30 minute session will be offered online only through ZOOM and will focus on significant changes in the recently published 7th edition. Changes that are most likely to impact instructors and student writers will be detailed. Resources will be provided.

Oct 13, 2020

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Contact Kerry Jones (kerry-jones@uiowa.edu) for more information. A vesicular stomatitis virus vectored vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 Sean Whelan, PhD Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor and Chair, Molecular Microbiology Washington University, St. Louis  

Oct 14, 2020

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Join Dr. Lee Scott Theisen (63BA, 66MA), a chocolate connoisseur and lecturer, who travels the globe to trace the history of the world’s most craved food. He has visited cacao growers in Hawaii, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and the Caribbean—and serves as a chocolate judge at festivals. Theisen teaches the history, science, and economics of chocolate through UCLA’s continuing education program. He recently served as the historical consultant and a writer for the documentary The Chocolate Road...

Oct 15, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD  

Oct 17, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016) Kojo (pp. 110–131) Abena (pp. 132–152) Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events. Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following me...

Oct 22, 2020

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Progress in Internal Medicine

Oct 22, 2020

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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Celebrate beloved religious studies faculty member, Professor Jay Holstein, on Thursday, October 22, at 5:30 p.m. (CDT). In this virtual event, you’ll hear from notable alumni on the impact of Holstein’s colorful and dynamic 50-year teaching career—and from the professor himself as he delivers his golden lecture. Register today!

Oct 27, 2020

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

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Oct 27, 2020

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Please join us for a virtual town hall about pioneering University of Iowa physician Ignacio Ponseti, MD—who developed a revolutionary treatment for clubfoot—and the Ponseti International Association, which is continuing Dr. Ponseti’s important work today. Jose Morcuende (01R), MD, director of the Ponseti International Association, and Thomas Cook (87PhD), the association’s director of global operations, will share more about their organization’s contributions, both at Iowa and abroad, to h...

Oct 29, 2020

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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The High Road and Its Tolls: Public Health Lessons Learned from Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Oklahoma by Gerard Clancy, MD

Oct 31, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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This meeting will be hosted by Derek Nnuro, associate writer (Stanley Museum of Art) Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016) H (pp. 155–175) Akua (pp. 176–197) Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events. Registration will cut off at noon the Friday pr...

Nov 5, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD Presenter: Alexandra Machen, MPH, PhD, Freudenthal Lab, University of Kansas Medical Center

Nov 7, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning are two of the most well-known and groundbreaking American abstract painters. Friends and competitors, they jockeyed for position to be the most important American artist of the century. Find out how Pollock and De Kooning pushed twentieth-century American painting (and each other) in daring new directions. Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement leads the discussion. Join us on Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/98230324908 Saturdays at the Stan...

Nov 10, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Life after college brings unexpected challenges—and the answers aren’t always a Google search away. Gain some helpful perspectives in this transition by hearing from fellow recent graduates who are experiencing the same real-life situations. Join us for fun conversation and practical takeaways on living your best life after college. Our virtual Life After College series kicks off with a discussion on exploring how UI recent graduates decided to create their own path and launch their entrepr...

Nov 14, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016) Willie (pp. 198–220) Yaw (pp. 221–241) Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events. Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Anyone registered after that will be added to the following me...

Nov 17, 2020

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

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Nov 19, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD  

Dec 2, 2020

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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The College of Public Health is pleased to announce that Professor Fred Gerr has been named the 2020 College of Public Health Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. Dr. Gerr has served as a professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health for the last 18 years. He has been the director of both the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health and the director of the Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program in CPH for many years. He has taught Occupational Health Practice,...

Dec 2, 2020

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Featuring Megan Greenwood (11BSE) Founder, Greenwood Brewing Life after college brings unexpected challenges—and the answers aren’t always a Google search away.  Gain some helpful perspectives in this transition by hearing from fellow recent graduates who are experiencing the same real-life situations. Join us for fun conversation and practical takeaways on living your best life after college. Our virtual Life After College series kicks off with a discussion on exploring how UI recent grad...

Dec 3, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD Presenter: Matthew Schellenberg, PhD, Mayo Clinic

Dec 5, 2020

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016) Sonny (pp. 242–262) Marjorie (pp. 263–282) Marcus (pp. 283–299) Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books. Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events. Registration will cut off at noon the Friday preceding each event. Stanley Reads puts the museum’s rec...

Dec 17, 2020

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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The Structural Biology Interest Group meetings are biweekly at 9:00am. Currently the group meets via Zoom.  The faculty director of the group is Dr. Todd Washington.  To join the mailing list or request the Zoom link, please contact Sonya Housholder in the CCOM Office of Research.  Title TBD