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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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Category: Conferences and meetings
I mentioned earlier in the week that I had two pending announcements; now I can officially share the second. We're putting on an Emerging Infectious Diseases conference here in Iowa City April 27-8th, and the Keynote speaker will be Ian...
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Category: Antibiotic resistance
The jury, it would seem, is still out on that question.
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Category: Iowa/area news
The University of Iowa press office did a nice story on our recent article showing "livestock-associated" S. aureus in a daycare worker in Iowa. LabSpaces covers it here. I started a new Facebook page for our research center, the University...
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Category: Infectious disease
It was only a matter of time: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver says the state has two probable causes of swine flu. Speaking Wednesday at a Statehouse news conference, Culver told reporters that officials would know Thursday if the cases are...
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Category: Intelligent design/creationism
A creationist squawks about "godless atheists" suppressing academic freedom.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:10 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Score another one for science.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 6:30 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Intelligent design/creationism
Iowa's first anti-evolution bill in a decade focuses on academic freedom.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:40 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Housekeeping
Scooped by a fellow Scienceblogger on my own upcoming paper...
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Category: Iowa/area news
Answer: a metric fuckton.
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Category: General Epidemiology
Flooding challenges last long after the water's gone.
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