End-of-life financial and health care decisions should not be left until the last minute. Advanced planning, putting our “house in order,” to provide clear instructions for our loved ones helps to...
Based on her recent research, Dr. Caroline Tolbert will analyze puzzling trends in voter participation and review ways that the machinery of voting, i.e., its organization, could be modernized to...
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On UN Day this year we are honoring that historic agreement by emphasizing the rights of youth, especially the right...
Author Dr. Chris Jones (The Swine Republic) is joined by journalists Keith Schneider and Erin Jordan to examine Iowa and the Midwest’s efforts at water quality, public information, and the modern...
Recently, there has been an escalation of book bans and censorship in public school classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Many of the current book ban campaigns target books by or about LGBTQIA...
Keenan Crow, Director of Policy and Advocacy of One Iowa, will present an explanation of IA SF496, Iowa's new anti-LGBTQ+ education law. Among other things, this law includes a "don...
From forest fires in the Amazon to a mob storming the presidential palace, scholars warn Brazil could be at a tipping point. Dr. Smith discusses these threats, but also Brazil's hopeful...
UI College of Education Associate Professor Carolyn Colvin, Ph.D., and colleagues from West Liberty will speak about the success of a program to bring citizenship and more to immigrants in West...
Cholera has been a global public health problem that resulted in 7 pandemics since 1961. The first cholera case was reported in North Lebanon on October 4, 2022 in an informal settlement followed...
