by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Education
An on-line nurse’s aide training program is being launched by the University of Iowa’s Geriatric Education Center. Program administrator Linda Seydel says the goal is to provide Iowans, especially those in rural areas, an “anywhere, anytime”...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Education
Researchers at Iowa State University’s Center for Nondestructive Evaluation will continue several projects into the new year that they’re working on for NASA. Center director Bruce Thompson says they’ve received seven million dollars in funding for...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Health & Medicine
If your New Year’s resolution is to quit smoking, the director of a telephone hotline based in Iowa City wants you to call. “Quitline Iowa” director John Lowe says kicking the habit brings immediate health benefits. Lowe says you’ll immediately...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Weather
It’s been a month of bitter cold and surprisingly mild weather, and state climatologist Harry Hillaker says oddly enough, December, 2005 will go down in the weather records as average. It didn’t start out that way — the first week or so of December...
by admin | Dec 29, 2005 | News
Next week’s Outback Bowl game against Florida will be the final game for an Iowa senior class that has led the program to unprecedented heights. The Hawkeyes will be playing in their fourth straight January bowl and have also captured a pair of Big Ten...
