Posts Tagged ‘Academics’

3 of 13 Iowa football players hospitalized with muscle disorder have quit the team

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A University of Iowa report says three of the 13 football players hospitalized after intense weight-lifting workouts in January have quit the team. A committee appointed by President Sally Mason says one injured player who was a walk-on quit before spring practice to concentrate on academics. A second who was on scholarship completed spring practices but left Iowa for unrelated ...

Economics and Physics

Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Nathaniel Gronewald reports on a somewhat esoteric controversy : The financial crisis and subsequent global recession have led to much soul-searching among economists, the vast majority of whom never saw it coming. But were their assumptions and models wrong only because of minor errors or because today’s dominant economic thinking violates the laws of physics ? A small but growing group of academics believe the latter is true, and they are out to prove it. These thinkers say that the ne