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The Iowa City New Horizons Band is a local chapter of a large global network of bands that provide adults 55 years of age and older with the opportunity to learn an instrument and make music.

Carla, a second-year SCS doctoral student, was awarded a 2015 Obermann Fellowship. For Carla, the fellowship is especially meaningful because as a Latina and first-generation college student, it will enhance her leadership skills to work in communities of need.

Grove believes that SCS students are well positioned to “help illuminate equity issues and share their knowledge with district leaders."

More than 300 middle school students, primarily from Eastern Iowa, were in Coralville Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, to participate in the 18th annual University of Iowa International Day for Human Rights. This year students learned about “The Human Right to a Clean Environment.”

Dr. Jo Hendrickson of the University of Iowa College of Education is being honored for her pioneering leadership on behalf of students with intellectual disabilities. The Jo Hendrickson Scholarship Fund for UI REACH students was announced October 30 at the UI REACH Advisory Board meeting in Iowa City.

Three University of Iowa College of Education leaders have received Better Futures for Iowans grants to support projects in dentistry, disability, and world language education.

Women’s sports pioneer and Title IX advocate Christine Grant (Ph.D. ’74) will discuss “The Politics of Sport” as part of the University of Iowa College of Education’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

The Center for Evaluation and Assessment presented research on teacher professional development and STEM initiatives at the 2014 AEA conference in Denver, Colorado.

Professor William Ming Liu’s portrait of a publicly engaged scholar is the first in a series sponsored by the College’s Strategic Planning Team 4 (Better Future for Iowans).

A new classroom in the University of Iowa College of Education’s Lindquist Center will change the way students learn and teachers teach. Room N105 is a newly constructed learning space designed to support technologically fortified, collaborative, problem-solving learning strategies.