Registration Under Way For UI Alumni Reunion 2005

The University of Iowa Alumni Association (UIAA) is inviting alumni to reconnect with old friends, reminisce about former days on campus, and make new memories during Alumni Reunion 2005 from June 10-12 in Iowa City.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/040505alumni_reunion.html
UIAA Alumni Reunion 2005: http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/arw/index.html

New UI Strategic Plan Calls For Increased Diversity, Public Engagement

A new five-year strategic plan for the University of Iowa, presented today to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, outlines five new and renewed goals designed to propel the UI toward its aspiration to become one of the ten most distinguished public universities in the country.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/031505strategic_plan.html
Office of the President – Strategic Planning: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/strat_planning/

UI To Earn $6.75 Million From Cancer Technology Partnership

The University of Iowa is expected to earn about $6.75 million as a result of a deal announced by Pfizer and Coley Pharmaceutical Group. Under the agreement, Pfizer will develop, manufacture, and commercialize ProMune, a cancer treatment developed by Coley in part by technology provided by the UI.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/032405cancer.html
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center:
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cancercenter/

Gary Fethke To Step Down As Dean Of Tippie College

Gary Fethke, dean of the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, has announced that he will step down as dean at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. He will continue to hold the Leonard A. Hadley Professorship in Leadership and will teach as a faculty member in the Departments of Economics and Management Sciences.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/032505fethke.html
Henry B. Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

U.S. News Ranks UI Graduate Programs Highly Among Public Universities

According to the latest rankings of graduate programs by U.S.News & World Report, the University of Iowa is making strides toward meeting a primary goal of its Strategic Plan: to become one of the 10 most distinguished public research universities in the nation. Based on the magazine's rankings for the 2006 edition of its annual "America's Best Graduate Schools," the UI has six top 10 graduate colleges and programs among public universities, and an additional 13 among the top 15 public universities.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/040105ranking.html

UI Study: Exercise-Induced Shortness Of Breath Not Always Caused By Asthma

Asthma is the most common cause of exercise-induced shortness of breath in children and adolescents. While a diagnosis of asthma is often correct, University of Iowa pediatric pulmonary physicians caution that other unrelated conditions also can cause shortness of breath during exercise. In cases where the asthma diagnosis is questionable, the UI experts recommend further testing to identify the true cause of exercise-induced shortness of breath.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/033105asthma-study.html
Children’s Hospital of Iowa: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa/index.html

UI Helps Show Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Reduces Infection

University of Iowa researchers contributed to a study that showed that a combination vaccine significantly reduces, in women, new cases of infection and disease associated with four types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Nearly 20 million Americans are infected with HPV, which is linked to cervical cancer, abnormal pap tests, and genital warts.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/040705hpv-study.html
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: http://obgyn.uihc.uiowa.edu/

UI Studying Non-Hormonal Medication For Women With Hot Flashes

The University of Iowa is taking part in a new international study of a non-hormonal medication for the treatment of hot flashes in postmenopausal women.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/040705hot-flashes.html
UI Health Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/index.html

UI Faculty Member Robinson Wins Pulitzer Prize For "Gilead"

Marilynne Robinson, a faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was identified today as the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Robinson was honored for "Gilead," an epistolary novel about the experiences and thoughts of a small-town Iowa minister.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/040405pulitzer-robinson.html
Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
Pulitzer Prize Winners With UI Ties: http://www.iowalum.com/pulitzer/pulitzerwinners.html

Lan Samantha Chang To Direct University Of Iowa Writers' Workshop

Fiction writer Lan Samantha Chang has been selected to become director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Chang, who is an alumna and former visiting faculty member in the workshop, is currently Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/april/041105chang_iww.html
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
Department of English: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/

Skorton: Students Like "Facebook" Communication
(Inside Higher Ed, March 16)

DAVID J. SKORTON, the president of the University of Iowa, has a profile in "The Facebook," an online "social network" service that students nationwide have flocked to since it was started last year. The Facebook, like Friendster and similar services, lets participants set up profiles of themselves and link those profiles to their friends' profiles, their friends' friends' profiles, etc. The Facebook focuses on college students, and is open only to participants with e-mail addresses at the growing number of colleges that are part of the network. Skorton was encouraged to sign up by two of those who are now among his nearly 1,000 friends: Lindsay Schutte, president of the student government at Iowa, and Josh Skorton, the president's son and a student at Stanford. David Skorton said via e-mail that "the reaction so far has been terrific and the undergraduates seem to like communicating with me in this way."
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/16/facebook3_16
Office of the President: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/

UI Says Kinnick Renovation On Time, Under Budget
(CNN/SI.com, March 22)

The $87 million renovation project for Kinnick Stadium is on schedule in some phases, ahead in others, and within its budget, University of Iowa officials said Tuesday. The new 14,200-seat south stands, with new home and visitor locker rooms underneath, will be complete in time for the first home Hawkeye football game on Sept. 3, said JANE MEYER, senior associate athletics director. Work on a new entrance plaza on the south side of the 75-year-old stadium and a new press box on the west side will continue through the summer and fall, she said. The entire project is scheduled to be complete in time for the start of the 2006 football season. No work is being done on the playing field, but the renovation project has forced cancellation of the annual spring football game this year. Even though fans may be inconvenienced, Iowa football coach KIRK FERENTZ called the renovation a "win-win for everybody." A version of the story also ran on the website of the DETROIT FREE PRESS.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/03/22/bc.fbc.kinnickstadium.ap/
Facilities Management Kinnick Renovation Web Cam: http://www.facilities.uiowa.edu/kinnickcam/kinnickcam.htm

Former UI Players Rally Around Teammate
(Chicago Tribune, March 25)

Members of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA's 1980 Final Four team continue to rally around teammate Kenny Arnold. The former Calumet High School star has been disabled by complications from a brain tumor and is unable to work. Arnold's former Hawkeyes teammates have established a trust account in his name to help with his medical bills and other living expenses.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-0503250269mar25,1,3443219.story

Law Alumnus Invents "Alcohawk" Breathalyzer
(Chicago Tribune, April 3)

This year's NCAA tournament already has wrenched even the most seasoned beer guts into over-imbibing at sports bars, and we haven't even gotten to Monday's championship yet. All of the dangerous crossroads between bars and cars are why Brian Eddy, a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA law-school grad who once interned for a DUI attorney, created the Alcohawk personal alcohol screeners with a buddy. They're not just for detection but also for prevention of drunken driving. "Everyone's got a friend who says, `Oh, I've only had three or four.' And really they've had eight or nine," said Eddy, now 30 and an attorney in Minneapolis.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/q/chi-0504020313apr03,1,5814301.story?coll=chi-leisureq-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/

UI Researchers Improve Huntington's In Mice
(Innovations Report, April 5)

Researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have taken another step toward a potential treatment for Huntington's disease (HD). Using an approach called RNA interference (RNAi), the scientists reduced levels of the disease-causing HD protein in mice and significantly improved the movement and neurological abnormalities normally associated with the disease. HD is a devastating, inherited, neurodegenerative disease that is progressive and always fatal. The disease-causing gene produces a protein that is toxic to certain brain cells, and the subsequent neuronal damage leads to the movement disorders, psychiatric disturbances and cognitive decline that characterize this disease. "Many of the current approaches aimed at treating HD are indirect and target the symptoms of the disease. RNA interference gives us the first opportunity to attack the fundamental problem and reduce protein expression from the disease gene," said BEVERLY DAVIDSON, Ph.D., the Roy J. Carver Chair in Internal Medicine and UI professor of internal medicine, physiology and biophysics, and neurology. "Our study is the first demonstration that a therapy designed to inhibit protein production has a beneficial effect." Innovations Report is based in Germany. The same story also appeared on the Web site of RXPGNEWS.COM.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-42554.html
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/InternalMedicine/Default.htm

Conroy Made A Great Program "Extraordinary"
(Washington Post, April 7)

FRANK CONROY, the memoirist and longtime director of the celebrated University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, died Wednesday. He was 69. Conroy died at his home in Iowa City of colon cancer, said JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON, acting co-director of the workshop. "Frank took a great program and made it an extraordinary one," McPherson said. Versions of this Associated Press article appeared April 6 and 7 on the web sites of ABC NEWS, CNN, BOSTON GLOBE, NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSDAY, USA TODAY, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, CHICAGO DAILY SOUTHTOWN, BALTIMORE SUN, SAN JOSE (Calif.) MERCURY NEWS, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, MIAMI HERALD, SEATTLE TIMES, PORTERVILLE (Calif.) RECORDER, WIRED NEWS, CLEVELAND (Ohio) PLAIN DEALER, AKRON (Ohio) BEACON JOURNAL, MACON (Ga.) TELEGRAPH, ST. PAUL (Minn.) PIONEER PRESS, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, SAN LUIS OBISPO (Calif.) TRIBUNE, FORT WORTH (Texas) STAR TELEGRAM, TALLAHASSEE (Fla.) DEMOCRAT, FORT WAYNE (Ind.) NEWS SENTINEL, FORT WAYNE (Ind.) JOURNAL GAZETTE, WICHITA (Kan.) EAGLE, CONTRA COSTA (Calif.) TIMES, GRAND FORKS (N.D.) HERALD, LEXINGTON (Ky.) HERALD LEADER, MYRTLE BEACH (S.C.) SUN NEWS, BRADENTON (Fla.) HERALD, COLUMBUS (Ga.) LEDGER-ENQUIRER, CENTRE DAILY TIMES in Pennsylvania, CHARLOTTE (N.C.) OBSERVER, TIMES PICAYUNE in Louisiana, BILOXI (Miss.) SUN HERALD, DULUTH (Minn.) NEWS TRIBUNE, THE OREGONIAN, KANSAS CITY (Mo.) STAR, MLIVE.com in Michigan, WORCESTER (Mass.) TELEGRAM, MONTEREY COUNTY (Calif.) HERALD, THE LEDGER in Florida, THE GUARDIAN (U.K.), WILMINGTON (N.C.) MORNING STAR, WILKES-BARRE (Pa.) TIMES LEADER, TUSCALOOSA (Ala.) NEWS, INDIANAPOLIS STAR, NEW ALBANY (Ind.) TRIBUNE, EVANSVILLE (Ind.) COURIER & PRESS, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, NORTH COUNTY (Calif.) TIMES, MUNSTER (Ind.) TIMES, RAPID CITY (S.D.) JOURNAL, TAHLEQUAH (Okla.) DAILY PRESS, CANOE.ca in Canada, CJAD in Canada, MACLEANS in Canada, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, ORLANDO SENTINEL, MSNBC, WJLA in Washington, D.C., and OMAHA WORLD HERALD.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32463-2005Apr6.html

Native Exposure

"There is much that Native American culture can offer mainstream American culture," says Michelene Pesantubbee, a UI assistant professor of religious studies with a joint appointment in the American Indian and Native Studies Program who teaches an undergraduate course called Introduction to Native American Religious Traditions. "The more exposure we can find to different ways of looking at the world, the more ways we can find to live together in a compatible way."
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2004_v42/04012005/index.htm

Iowa's Way With Words
The American Academy of Poets declares April National Poetry Month. In recognition of the importance of poetry in the life and history of University of Iowa, here are a few poems by poets with strong UI ties.
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2004_v42/04012005/poetry.htm

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