April 2003 From The University of Iowa Alumni Association
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UPDATE
MARATHON DEBUTS
The
University of Iowa television spots, aired this season during halftimes
of the
Hawkeye men's basketball games, have been compiled into a 30-minute
video—UI Update Marathon—and can be downloaded and viewed by clicking
on this URL: http://www.iowalum.com/webcasts
GENERAL NEWS
- Dean of College of Law Will Retire In 2004
- Skorton Releases Report Of Investigative Committee
- Gift To Engineering Seeks To Promote Cleaner Environment
- UI Announces Business Competition For High School Students
HEALTH NEWS
- UI, VAMC Researchers Study Risk Of Rape In Military
- Children's Hospital of Iowa Performs Pioneering Surgery
- Cardiovascular Research Center Gets $11.4 Million From NIH
ARTS NEWS
- Iowa Summer Rep Selects Tom Stoppard As 2003 Playwright
- Emeritus Professor Himie Voxman Receives National Award
UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS
- Davidson Comments on Discovery (New Scientist, March 13)
- UI Graduate Creates New Banking Model (Fortune, March 17)
- Parents Advised on War TV Coverage (ABCNews.com, March 25)
- Dreher Quoted (U.S. News & World Report, April 4)
FEATURES
Dean
of College of Law Will Retire In 2004
N.
William Hines, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law and the
longest-serving
current law school dean in the country, has announced he will retire
as dean following the 2003-04 academic year. Hines' intentions to retire
as dean were announced at the Board of Regents, State of Iowa meeting
in Cedar Falls Thursday. A search committee to seek a new dean has
been appointed and will launch a nationwide search for a replacement
this summer.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/041103hines.html
UI College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
N. William Hines Biography: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/n-hines.php
Skorton
Releases Report Of Investigative Committee
University
of Iowa President David Skorton has released the report of an ad hoc
committee that investigated the University of Iowa's involvement with
the resolution of the criminal case in which a member of the UI men's
basketball team, Pierre Pierce, was accused of assaulting another UI
student.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/040903skorton.html
Gift
To Engineering Seeks To Promote Cleaner Environment
A $750,000
gift from the W. M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, Calif., to the University
of Iowa Foundation will allow UI College of Engineering researchers to
increase their knowledge of how plants can be used to clean contaminated
soils, sediments, and groundwater. The gift will equip the Environmental
Engineering and Sciences-W. M. Keck Phytotechnologies Laboratories for
studies in phytoremediation of organic xenobiotic chemicals, a technology
that recognizes the power of plants to recycle and treat waste chemicals
through nature's cycles.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/032603keck.html
UI College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/
UI
Announces Business Competition For High School Students
Young entrepreneurs
from across Iowa can win up to $500 in seed capital as part of a business
plan competition sponsored by the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center
(JPEC) at the University of Iowa. JPEC is currently accepting applications
for the 2003 Young Iowa Entrepreneurs Awards, a competition intended
to encourage entrepreneurial ventures among Iowa high school students.
Selected applicants will participate in a free June 24-27 UI entrepreneurship
seminar.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/040303biz-competition.html
UI's Entrepreneurship Program is named among top programs:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/040303entrepreneur-rank.html
Registration is under way for a summer camp for young entrepreneurs in grades
four to six: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/040803entre-camp.html
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/entrep/
UI,
VAMC Researchers Study Risk Of Rape In Military
Violence
towards women in the military has identifiable risk factors, according
to a study by Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) and
University of Iowa researchers. The study, involving more than 500
female veterans, found that workplace factors, such as the behavior
of superiors, were highly associated with military women's risk of
sexual assault during their military service.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/031103military-rape.html
Children's
Hospital of Iowa Performs Pioneering Surgery
Pediatric
surgeons at Children's Hospital of Iowa recently used a surgical robot
to assist their removal of the adrenal gland of a 22-month-old Iowa
girl, the youngest patient known to have so benefited from the advanced
technology.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/032103pioneer-surgery.html
Children's Hospital of Iowa: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa/
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Cardiovascular Research Center Gets $11.4
Million From NIH
A University
of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine cardiovascular
research program now in its fourth decade has received its seventh
consecutive grant renewal from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The five-year,
nearly $11.4 million grant was effective Jan. 1 and will help support
studies to understand how the nervous system affects the heart and
circulation, especially in relation to heart attacks, high blood pressure,
stroke, depression, and obesity.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/032603abboud-renewal.html
UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/
Iowa
Summer Rep Selects Tom Stoppard As 2003 Playwright
Iowa
Summer Rep 2003 at the University of Iowa will be a festival of plays
by English
theatrical wit Tom Stoppard, who won a 1999 Academy Award for his "Shakespeare
in Love" screenplay. The 2003 festival —"Tom-Foolery:
Three Comedies by Tom Stoppard" — features three plays
that have not been produced at the UI before: "Rough Crossing," "Travesties," and "The
Real Thing."
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/032703summer-rep.html
UI Department of Theatre Arts: http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/production/summerrep.htm
Tom Stoppard Bibliography: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/9432/stoppard/
Emeritus
Professor Himie Voxman Receives National Award
Himie Voxman,
former director of the University of Iowa School of Music and one of
the UI's most distinguished emeritus faculty, has been named a Lowell
Mason Fellow of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/040303voxman-award.html
UI School of Music: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/index.html
UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS
Davidson
Comments on Discovery
(New Scientist, March 13)
Using
gene therapy to switch off genes instead of adding new ones could slow
down
or prevent the fatal brain disorder Huntington's disease. The method,
which exploits a mechanism called RNA interference, might also help
treat a wide range of other inherited diseases. It involves a natural
defence mechanism against viruses, in which short pieces of double-stranded
RNA (short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs) trigger the degradation of
any other RNA in the cell with a matching sequence. If an siRNA is
chosen to match the RNA copied from a particular gene, it will stop
production of the protein the gene codes for. Huntington's is caused
by mutations in the huntingtin gene. The resulting defective protein
forms large clumps that gradually kill off part of the brain. Studies
in mice have shown that reducing production of the defective protein
can slow down the disease, and BEVERLY DAVIDSON at the University of
Iowa thinks the same could be true in people. "If you reduce levels
of the toxic protein even modestly, we believe you'll have a significant
impact," she says. Late in 2002, her team showed that it is possible
to reduce the amount of a similar protein by up to 90 per cent, by
adding DNA that codes for an siRNA to rodent cells engineered to produce
the protein.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993493
Versions of this story appeared March 13 on EUREKALERT, a science news Web
site; YAHOONEWS; CLINNIXPRO.net, and BBC NEWS.
Davidson Laboratory: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/davidsonlab/
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UI
Graduate Creates New Banking Model
(Fortune, March 17)
Washington
Mutual specializes in turning the accepted banking model upside down.
Led by ambitious CEO and UI alumnus KERRY KILLINGER, this Seattle thrift
bank has grown from a relative unknown into a $268 billion banking
powerhouse in just under a decade. It has vaulted ahead of the competition
as the nation's largest thrift and sixth-largest bank overall. And
it has done so in part by aggressively snapping up rivals in a calculated
buying spree. But what is really turning heads, it seems, is the company's
unorthodox retail approach. Washington Mutual has been not only dogged
in its pursuit of customers but creative as well.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,433191,00.html
Tippie College of Business Alumni: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/bizatiowa/spring2002/1970s.html
Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/
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Parents
Advised on War TV Coverage
(ABCNews.com, March 25)
Many
parents are vigilant when it comes to monitoring the movies their kids
watch
and the video games they play. But now that coverage of the war in
Iraq has redefined "reality television," how can parents
best shield their children from the violent images? Shielding older
children from graphic war imagery is significantly more difficult
than with younger children, short of locking them in their bedrooms
until the end of the war. Still, television should not be the primary
way that kids learn about the war; parents should mediate. "Kids
in the pre-teen years should have their television time limited more
to network news, which is a bit more 'sanitized,'" said SCOTT
TEMPLE, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University
of Iowa.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/2020/kidsandwar_020325.html
UI Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html
Dreher
Quoted
(U.S. News & World Report, April 4)
If
demand for physicians is strong, it's nothing compared with the need for
registered
nurses--1 million by 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nursing schools are responding with "acclerated career-entry" programs
designed for people who already have a bachelor's. Acclerated or "generic" master's
degrees, which generally take three years, let students spend the first
year earning a B.S.N., with the remainder for a master's of science
in nursing. "Why would a bachelor's-prepared applicant...want
to get [only] a second bachelor's in nursing when they can get a professional
master's or doctorate in every other healthcare field?" asks MELANIE
DREHER, dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Iowa's professional
master's takes just four semesters, including a semester-long clinical
internship.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/articles/premium/04med.box.php
UI College of Nursing: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/
Outreach
Dentistry Is Offered To Young Iowans
Better than
the tooth fairy: Pediatric dentistry outreach offers health care to
young Iowans in need.
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2002_v40/04042003/teeth.html
UI College of Dentistry: http://www.dentistry.uiowa.edu/
UI
To Offer New International Studies Major
A
new major will equal a "world of possibilities":
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2002_v40/04042003/world.html
Alumnus
Lives His Dream at National Baseball Hall of Fame
Baseball fans
around the world might think it's too good to be true, but for Tim Wiles,
87BA, 89MA, it's all in a day's work. Or it could be. As research director
of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Wiles knows
he's living a dream.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/apr03/exclusive/play_ball.html
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