Board of Regents Newsletter: May 2020 Newsletter
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many changes for Iowa's public universities. Not least among those changes is the cancellation of in person commencement ceremonies, long a celebration of student achievement and a farewell to graduating seniors. However, the UI, ISU and UNI held online commencement ceremonies this May: UI -...
New research, published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that substituting prolonged sedentary time with sleep was associated with lower stress, better mood and lower body mass index (BMI), and substituting light physical activity was associated with improved mood and lower BMI across the next year. Jacob Meyer,...
Current COVID-19 sample collection requires a trained health care employee to insert an FDA-approved nasopharyngeal swab into a patient’s nose, or an oropharyngeal swab inside a patient’s mouth and throat. So, Val Sheffield, MD, PhD, and his team devised a simple method for collecting samples from patients for COVID-19 testing...
The impact UNI professors make isn’t just in the classroom, but also in the field. For several UNI public health professors, that has meant traveling to COVID-19 hotspots across the country, working to help keep some of the most vulnerable communities safe. Michele Devlin recently traveled to the Navajo Nation...
