Post-event follow-up: Watch a video of the Sep 6 event.  Iowa City Mayor Bruce Teague will discuss the state of Iowa City, what’s new and what has changed during his time as mayor. Bruce Teague is serving his second two-year term as mayor. He moved to Iowa City from Chicago when he was 17 years old and graduated from West High. He graduated in 2002 from Kirkwood Community College with an associate’s degree in applied science in nursing. Mayor Teague is also a 2001 graduate of the University of...

The annual meeting of the UI Retirees Association will be Thursday, June 15, 2023, 2–4 p.m. in 2520-D University Capitol Center (located within the UCC Conference Room Suite toward the south end of the building’s second floor). The event will also be available via Zoom (link to come). Refreshments and social time will begin the meeting, followed by the annual business meeting. City parking (for a fee) is available in the parking ramp attached to the south of the building. Entrances accessed on...

  Our Medical System Is Frayed: Why Did Humpty Dumpty Fall Off The Wall? Victoria Sharp, M.D., M.B.A. Professor Emeritus, Department of Urology Acting Chief of Staff, Iowa City VA Healthcare System Living in the United States, great health care is something we all expect to be available and reliable. Busy in our lives focusing on what is important to us and what we are good at, in general, you wouldn’t think we would need to do much more than eat healthy, exercise, drink alcohol in...

Upcoming Outing Phebe Timber Spring Hike Monday, May 15, 10 a.m. (Reservations NOT required.)

(Reservations required. RSVP by April 19 to Ellie Herman, ellen-herman@uiowa.edu.)

All multicellular organisms use “innate immune” receptors to detect and mobilize defensive responses to invading microbes. This includes proteins recognizing lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of Gram-negative bacteria. LPS-recognizing defense systems have been characterized in both humans and horseshoe crabs that have inhabited the Earth for 300+ million years. The ability of horseshoe crab LPS-binding protein to detect minuscule amounts of LPS has prompted pharmaceutical development of the horseshoe...

Post-event follow-up: Watch a video of the April 19 event. Join this Zoom presentation to hear from Matt Degner, superintendent of the Iowa City Community School District, as he discusses the state’s new “voucher” system and how it will affect the public schools, the new magnet school, how well students are bouncing back from COVID, and more.  Matt Degner has been superintendent of the Iowa City school district since July 2020. Matt was principal of South East Junior High for the 2013-2014 and...

Post-event follow-up: Watch a video of the Apr. 12 event.  Basic needs, including food, housing, mental health, sleep, hygiene, and financial literacy, are critical to students’ success. When students are basic needs insecure, they do not have access to these essentials, adversely affecting their well-being, college persistence, and college completion. On our campus, the Food Pantry has been instrumental to fighting food insecurity. In fact, more than 40% of UI students are food insecure. We...

Stanley Sage is a new program at the Stanley Museum of Art where local older adults will tell their art story and connect them to the Stanley collection. The inaugural event will be Tuesday, April 4 at 10:30 a.m. with Linzee Kull McCray. Linzee is curious about everything! She’s been an art teacher, bartender, author of two books on textiles, curator of museum exhibitions, fabric designer, and writer. People’s stories and the opportunity to share them gets her up in the morning and keeps her...

Post-event follow-up: Watch a video of the Apr. 3 event. This presentation discusses the history of women’s athletics at the University of Iowa and will celebrate the career of Dr. Christine Grant as a leader in the advancement of equality in women’s sport at Iowa and nationally. Paula Jantz joined the University of Iowa Athletics Department in 1980 and retired in 2017 as senior associate director of athletics. As senior women’s administrator, she was responsible for individual sport...