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The University of Iowa has determined that beginning August 1, all non-essential events will be offered through a virtual format. We are following the university's recommendations and are planning exclusively virtual events for the remainder of this summer and fall. We hope you will join us. If you don't see the university event you are looking for, please also visit events.uiowa.edu.
Join Dr. Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, a University of Iowa researcher and one of the world?s leading coronavirus experts.
Perlman?a UI Health Care physician and professor of microbiology and immunology at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine?has spent nearly 38 years studying coronaviruses, including those that caused the SARS and MERS outbreaks. Until recently, he was one of only 10 full-time coronavirus virologists in the world.
Perlman wrote an editorial for the New England Journal of Medicine in February to educate physicians about coronaviruses, and he?s quoted regularly on a range of COVID-19-related subjects by national media outlets such as The New York Times and ABC News.
Dr. Mark Stinski, PhD, a professor emeritus of microbiology who devoted his career at Iowa to the study of human cytomegalovirus, will host the event.
Registration is required and space is limited for this event.
https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvdemurzstG9Yai_F8FiPMAkQlTiKFwlC4
Chat from the Old Cap is a series of virtual engagement sessions featuring Iowa alumni and friends sharing stories from their careers, backgrounds, and the university that unites us.
We highly recommend having your favorite cold beverage on hand during this "Thirsty Thursday" event.
Participants:
John Hall, MBA66
Founder of Goose Island Brewing (Chicago, IL)
Megan McKay, BBA99/MBA05
Founder and CEO, Peace Tree Brewing (Knoxville, IA)
Grant Scorsone, BBA86
Co-Founder and CFO (Chief Fun Officer), Spoonwood Brewing (Pittsburgh, PA)
Hunter Fiers, BBA15
Co-Founder, Lionstone Brewing (Geneseo, IL)
Register to attend and we will send you the Zoom link. Register now!
Join Ted Abel, PhD, the director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, who is recognized for his work on the interplay of sleep and memory formation and storage.
The holder of the Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience and the chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Dr. Abel is a pioneer in defining the molecular mechanisms of long-term memory storage, and identifying how these processes go awry in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
Abel, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the Simons Foundation.
Dr. Jean E. Robillard, MD, a pediatric nephrologist and the University of Iowa?s former vice president for medical affairs, will host the event.
Registration is required and space is limited for this event.
https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdOirrDIuH9CZvSdB0AvLyXvUluPeFZyZ
Chat from the Old Cap is a series of virtual engagement sessions featuring Iowa alumni and friends sharing stories from their careers, backgrounds, and the university that unites us.
Join the CIC Virtual Book Club! Our first book is The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo. Lombardo earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers? Workshop and grew up in Oak Park, IL.
Set in the Chicago Suburbs, four adult daughters recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter their lives.
Support your favorite local bookstore or library by purchasing or borrowing her book. This will be a great chance to discuss this book in an interactive setting with Iowa alumni and friends.
Registration is Required!
https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrde-vqDItGNxQPlj3GEsvNvpgq1h0o6Ts
Join Dr. Craig Kletzing, a professor in physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa who is principal investigator for the UI's latest NASA mission.
Landing the largest research award in the university's history, he will discuss the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission that will launch in 2023. The mission is part of a larger initiative, NASA's Explorers Program, which is studying how the sun affects space and the space environment around planets.
Kletzing is leading a team at Iowa that is developing two scientific instruments that will be used in twin satellites for the TRACERS mission. The space plasma experimentalist is also serving on three other NASA missions and has worked on projects regarding space weather, the aurora borealis, and the Van Allen radiation belts.
Registration is required and space is limited for this event.
https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcu6qqT8rE9NEOtq9Fs4O3Sr7G_4kdO8C
Chat from the Old Cap is a series of virtual engagement sessions featuring Iowa alumni and friends sharing stories from their careers, backgrounds, and the university that unites us.