Academics and Distinctions
Iowa is one of 61 elected members to the Association of American Universities, a group of leading research universities in North America. It is also listed in Greene's guides as a "Public Ivy of the Great Lakes & Midwest."
The university is currently home to ISCABBS, an aging public bulletin board system that was the largest Internet community in the world prior to the commercialization of the world wide web.
The University of Iowa is also the home to the National Advanced Driving Simulator (a virtual reality driving simulator.)
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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