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Event Preview: Power Breakfast – The Talent War II

Everybody is feeling the effects of the ongoing war for talent. With unemployment in Greater Des Moines barely above 2%, competition for top talent is overheating across all skill levels of jobs, organizations are searching …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | May 9, 2019
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Sexual orientation lending bias?

University: Iowa State University

Researchers: Hua Sun, Lei Gao
Status: Completed, published

Research overview: 
Iowa State University researchers led by finance professors Hua Sun and Lei Gao discovered that same-sex couples often were more likely to be denied …
By PERRY BEEMAN | May 9, 2019
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Nosing through links between sinus shape and climate

University: Des Moines University

Researcher: Lauren Butaric, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy in the Master of Science in Anatomy and
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine programs, lauren.butaric@dmu.edu

Status: In progress

Research overview: 
Lauren Butaric’s research examines the connection between …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 9, 2019
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A creative approach to genetics and mental health

University: University of Iowa

Researcher: Jacob Michaelson, Ph.D., division director, computational and molecular psychiatry associate professor, jacob-michaelson@uiowa.edu
Status:  In progress

Research overview: 
Popular culture aside, is there actually a genetic link between mental illness and creativity? Researchers at …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 9, 2019
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Virtual groups are a paradox — so here’s how to lead them

University: Drake University

Researchers: Radostina Purvanova, associate professor of leadership and management, Drake University; Renata Kenda, lecturer, Tilburg University 
Status: Published in Group and Organization Management, 2018 Vol. 43(5) 752–786

Research overview: 
The study “Paradoxical Virtual Leadership:…
By JOE GARDYASZ | May 9, 2019
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Connecting service-based learning with rural Iowa businesses’ needs

University: Drake University
Researcher: Alanah Mitchell, associate professor of information systems
Status: Published on July 31, 2018, in the Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems 

Research overview: 
Small-scale retail and service business owners, …
By JOE GARDYASZ | May 9, 2019
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Down on the farm

Des Moines-based urban planner and landscape architect Dennis Reynolds is at work in a farm field near Cedar Rapids, putting to play the principles of New Urbanism that he often advocates with ag-based development.

Reynolds, …
By KENT DARR | May 9, 2019
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NOTEBOOK: Sweet and helpful news

The Food Bank of Iowa and the Wallace Centers of Iowa have a recipe for helping food-insecure Iowans. 

The two nonprofits have partnered up to grow and distribute sweet potatoes this year on land at …
By SUZANNE BEHNKE | May 9, 2019
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NOTEBOOK: New series LLC ‘a common-sense thing,’ Pate says

Iowa business owners, particularly those who are organized as limited liability companies, may want to take a closer look at a new state law that was recently signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. 

The legislation, Senate …
By JOE GARDYASZ | May 9, 2019
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NOTEBOOK: UnityPoint adds a Hy-Vee grocery locker

Not long after I wrote up a little Insider Notebook item for the April 19 issue about a Sioux City hospital installing a Hy-Vee Aisles grocery locker on-site https://bit.ly/2GVS4fV, I got word from Senior Marketing …
By CHRIS CONETZKEY | May 9, 2019