Alumni
Association Hosts Football Weekend In Desert
Consider the bright lights of Las Vegas and the excitement of Hawkeye football as they come together Sept. 16-19 in an exclusive University of Iowa Alumni Association athletic tour. On Saturday, Sept. 18, join us as we fly from Las Vegas to Phoenix to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes play Arizona State, an excursion that includes game tickets, ground transportation, a welcome lunch, and pre-game tailgate.More>>
Also,
don't forget Alumni Reunion Weekend 2004 June 10-13.
For more information, or to register, visit http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/arw/
UI
Physicists Win $1.6 Million Grant To Explore Nature Of Matter
The
Particle Physics Group in the University of Iowa College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences physics and astronomy department has won a $1.6
million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore the basic
building blocks of matter.More>>
Department of Physics and Astronomy: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/
Mentoring
Program To Pair Experienced, New School Administrators
These days,
a principal has to be many things to many people: a leader to her students,
a manager and motivator to her teachers and staff, a sounding board
for parents and —in this age of greater school accountability— a
liaison to the state and federal governments. But college courses only
go so far toward preparing new school administrators for these sometimes
daunting tasks. That's why the University of Iowa College of Education's
Educational Policy and Leadership Studies department has designed a
new program to train experienced school administrators as mentors to
up-and-coming school
leaders. More>>
College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/
Carolyn
Jones, Iowa Alumna And UConn Professor, Named UI Law Dean
Carolyn
Jones, a graduate of the University of Iowa and the UI College of Law,
has been named the 16th dean of the law school by UI President David
Skorton. Currently a professor of law at the University of Connecticut,
Jones will succeed N. William Hines as dean on July 1. More>>
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
Investigator
Says Football Recruiting Allegation Is "Without Merit"
Neither the University of Iowa nor the UI football program encouraged or facilitated a sexual relationship between a football recruit and a young woman during the recruit's visit to the UI last fall, Iowa Deputy Attorney General Douglas R. Marek said in a written report to UI President David Skorton. More>>
U.S.
News & World Report Issues New Graduate School Rankings
The University
of Iowa continues to maintain and gain recognition for its academic
programs, with No. 1 ranked Speech-Language Pathology and No. 2 ranked
Audiology leading the way, according to new rankings of graduate programs
by U.S. News & World Report for its 2005 "America's Best Graduate
Schools." More>>
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology: http://www.shc.uiowa.edu/
Study
Aims To Predict Driver Safety For Parkinson's Patients
Using a
five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, a team of University of Iowa researchers will
study how Parkinson's disease affects driver safety. The team, led
by principal investigator Ergun Uc, M.D., assistant professor of neurology
in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and co-principal
investigator Matthew Rizzo, M.D., UI professor of neurology, engineering
and public policy, aims to generate data that will help predict driver
safety for individuals with this condition. More>>
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/
UI
Transplant Team Treats Youngest Liver Recipient
The
world's youngest, living, related donor liver transplant patient continues
to make excellent progress following her treatment at Children's Hospital
of Iowa at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. More>>
Department of Surgery: http://www.surgery.uiowa.edu/
Surprises
Found In Gene Variation Associated With Schizophrenia
Approximately
two percent of Caucasians have a gene segment variation that can cause
a certain form of schizophrenia. Most people with the variation, known
as a polymorphism, do not have the disease. A University of Iowa Health
Care study reveals a good prognosis for people who do have this form
of schizophrenia. The team also found that this polymorphism is associated
with overall benefits for human survival, and the initial mutation
occurred in a single common ancestor about 100,000 years ago. More>>
Mental Health Clinical Research Center: http://www.psychiatry.uiowa.edu/
Production
Is Selected For National American College Dance Festival
A University
of Iowa dance production is headed for the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C., after judging at the central regional festival of the American
College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA) March 10-13 at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. More>>
Department of Dance: http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/
Hancher
2004-05: Aretha Franklin To "The Velveteen Rabbit"
Tickets
are now available by mail-order for the University of Iowa Hancher
Auditorium's 2004-2005 performing arts season. Brochures — based
on the theme "We Deliver" — were mailed to Hancher's
full mailing list on April 9. More>>
Hancher: http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/
UI
Study: Marketing Doesn't Deter Student Drinking
(ABCNews.com, March 12)
Perceptions
about friends' drinking habits affect college students more than marketing
campaigns that encourage them to abstain or use alcohol responsibly.
That's the conclusion of a University of Iowa study in the latest issue
of Health Communication. "Social-norms" ads and poster campaigns
use facts or statistics to correct student misconceptions about the
drinking habits of their fellow students. The message is that most
students are moderate drinkers or non-drinkers. While social-norms
campaigns are all over college campuses, the authors of this new study
contend there are flaws in this approach to reducing student drinking. "These
campaigns are based on the assumption that students don't really know
what the correct norm is, that they are likely to underestimate how
many people are really drinking responsibly, and that a 'correct' message
will change their behavior," said SHELLY CAMPO, assistant professor
of community and behavioral health at the university. "These campaigns
also assume that students want to be like the typical college student,
which is difficult to define, particularly at a college or university
with a large or diverse student population." More>>
Community and Behavioral Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/cbh/
Damasio:
Facts, Logic Not Enough
(Washington Post, March 23)
The next
time you lock horns with your boss, your friend or your spouse and
she tells you to leave emotion out of it, tell her that science proves
that's a lousy idea. Block that emotion and all you're likely to produce
are bad decisions. That heretical insight is at the heart of a revolution
today in neuroscience and psychotherapy. Researchers working with patients
with brain damage from stroke, seizure or surgery have traced behavioral
problems to the loss or malfunction of an emotion-processing center. "If
that [neural connection to emotional memories] is broken down," says
University of Iowa neuroscientist ANTONIO DAMASIO about one such case, "you're
at the mercy of facts and logic, and that just is not enough." What
does any of this have to do with psychotherapy practice today? Simply
this: If emotion is so central to our behavior that we can't bypass
it without cost, then therapeutic approaches that appeal principally
to logic and reason are bound to fail. More>>
Department of Neurology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/neurology/welcome/
Gould
Comments On Teen Smoking Prevention
(Rocky Mountain News, March 23)
These two teenagers are an absolute mess. She has brain cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, stomach ulcers, wrinkled skin and bad breath — among other things. He suffers from bladder cancer, emphysema, heart disease, cataracts, dead feet and impotence — among other things. They are the "Iowa Smoking Teens" — life-sized cutouts created by the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa to give young people a graphic look at the dangers of cigarettes. "Smoking is a pediatric disease," said RENEE GOULD, a nurse with the center's Thoracic Oncology program. "Unfortunately, our program doesn't see smokers until they're about 40 years old and have been smoking the majority of their lives." Gould and colleagues take the life-sized cutouts and the posters to schools, state fairs and health fairs. "If we can keep one person from smoking by showing these striking images, it's worth our visit," Gould said. More>>
Gallery
Is More Than A Football Player
(New York Times, April 9)
The first
day ROBERT GALLERY walked into the classroom, ducking his head under
the doorway, dozens of eyes stared up at him, wide with awe. He still
smiles at the memory; a group of fourth to sixth graders rendered silent
before he could even say a word. The kids had been told an Iowa football
player would be their student-teacher, but nothing could quite prepare
them for Gallery. "There were a few Kodak moments there," Gallery
said, laughing. "It was great." More>>
College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/
Business
College Curriculum Emphasizes Ethical Issues
Recent corporate scandals have put additional focus on the ethics of doing business, a topic that provides context for decision making discussions in many core courses in the Tippie College of Business. More>>
Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/
Losing
ItWhen it
comes to cutting the fat, more and more people are opting for a surgery
invented at the University of Iowa to help them lose weight when
diets fail. What are the benefits, the risks, and the alternatives?
Iowa
Alumni Magazine: http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/apr04/exclusive/losingIt.html
College of Public Health –- Fighting The Epidemic: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/outreach/eops/2004Materials/FightingtheEpidemic.pdf
College of Public Health –- The Mediterranean Diet: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/outreach/eops/2004Materials/TheMediterraneanDiet.pdf
Sloths
And Cycloramas And Sandy, Oh My!
With former
UI president Sandy Boyd as its new interim director, Iowa’s
Museum of Natural History is bustling with plans to feature the complete
skeleton of a giant Ice Age sloth, conserve the Laysan Cyclorama,
and focus on habitats where environmental concerns and cultural diversity
meet. More>>
Museum
of Natural History: http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/iowa_environment/museum/Museum.html
UI News Services: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews
UI homepage: http://www.uiowa.edu/
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UI Alumni Association: http://www.iowalum.com
UI Foundation: http://www.uifoundation.org
UI Photos: http://www.uiowa.edu/~urphopix
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