Alumni Reunion 2006  Is June 9-11

The University of Iowa Alumni Association (UIAA) is inviting alumni from the honor years of 1966, 1961, 1956, and 1946 to return to campus for Alumni Reunion 2006, scheduled for June 9-11 in Iowa City.  For more information on UIAA Alumni Reunion 2006: http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/arw/index.html

UI Museums To Focus On Education, Research In Humanities, Environment
 
In an effort to strengthen the role of its museums in education, research, and service, the University of Iowa has refocused the missions of its two museums on the Pentacrest. Effective immediately, the Museum of Natural History and the Old Capitol Museum on the Pentacrest will be jointly administered, with the Natural History Museum focusing on nature and the environment and the Old Capitol Museum focusing on humanities and culture, said Pam Trimpe, director of the museums. More >>

Museum of Natural History : http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/

Old Capitol Museum on the Pentacrest: http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/

U.S. News Ranks Nine UI Colleges And Graduate Programs In Top 10
 
U.S. News & World Report has ranked nine University of Iowa colleges and graduate programs among the top 10 best in the United States, and an additional 10 in the top 25, when compared with other public universities. More >>

Graduate College : http://www.grad.uiowa.edu/

Board Of Regents Appoints Gary Fethke Interim UI President
 
The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, has named Gary Fethke, outgoing dean of the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, as interim president of the UI effective June 30, when President David Skorton plans to step down. Skorton has accepted a position as the next president of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. More >>

Henry B. Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

Study Shows Depression Is Factor In Withdrawal From Life-Sustaining Treatment

As debate about the right to die and end-of-life care continues to swirl around the country, new research from the University of Iowa shows that for some patients and their families, these decisions should include consideration of both physical and mental health. More >>

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/

Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/

NIH Selects UI To Test Modified Bird Flu Vaccine
 
The National Institutes of Health has selected the University of Iowa as one of six sites to study whether a vaccine additive can make a vaccine for the H5N1 strain of avian (bird) influenza more effective. More >>

Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/InternalMedicine/Default.htm

$13.7 Million In Gifts Support UI Center For Macular Degeneration
 
Gift commitments totaling $13.7 million -- including $10 million from the family of the late Roy J. Carver, Sr. -- will fund three new endowed chairs at the University of Iowa, create a new genetics testing laboratory, and rename the UI's world-renowned Center for Macular Degeneration. More >>

Carver Family Center for Macular Degeneration: http://cmd.ophth.uiowa.edu/

Carver Research Building A Landmark For Scientific Discovery
 
University of Iowa officials, along with state government and education leaders, representatives from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, and members of the family of the late Roy J. Carver, Sr. today formally dedicated the Carver Biomedical Research Building (CBRB), the newest facility in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. More >>

Hancher Auditorium To Send Joffrey Ballet River-To-River In Summer 2007
 
The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium will celebrate its 35th anniversary by giving a gift to the people of Iowa. In the summer of 2007 "Hancher's Anniversary Gift to Iowa" will send the famed Joffrey Ballet river-to-river, with free outdoor performances in Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Muscatine. More >>

Arts Iowa Calendar: http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa/

"It's All Good" During 2006-07 Season At Hancher Auditorium
 
Tickets are now on sale by mail order or fax for the 2006-07 performing arts season at the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium. A brochure, "It's All Good," was shipped to Hancher's full mailing list on April 7, and order forms may also be downloaded from the auditorium's website. More >>

Hancher Auditorium: http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu.

Russi Comments On iPods
(USA Today, March 15)
 
An increasing number of professors at Duke and other college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players. They become study aids for students, allowing them to fast-forward to a part of a lecture they may not have understood the first time or review complicated themes before exams. "It's just a further expansion of the knowledge base," says CHRIS RUSSI, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Iowa. He recently built a website that holds audio and visual files of lectures. Skeptics hope the rush to experiment with iPods won't affect classroom teaching. "There is no substitute for the energy exchanged one-on-one in a living classroom," says DAVE COLLINS, a marketing lecturer at the University of Northern Iowa. "I would compare it to listening to a CD or podcast of Dave Matthews as opposed to being at a concert." More >>

Department of Emergency Medicine: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/emergencymedicine/index.html

Frost Helps Reclaim Hurricane-Damaged Documents
(Clarion-Ledger, March 27)
 
To GARY FROST, the stains and smudges left by Hurricane Katrina on the pages of a Civil War letter have done what historians can only dream of: Given an old relic a new story to tell. The four-page letter, written on blue hotel stationery by Jefferson Davis to then-U.S. President James K. Polk, had been among the rare manuscripts on display at Beauvoir, Davis' home, now a museum and library, in Biloxi. Like so much of the Gulf Coast, the 52-acre estate was no match for Katrina's fierce winds and tidal surge. The storm tore part of the mansion's roof, leveled buildings, obliterated the library pavilion, and washed the letter and a dozen other artifacts on display in the library's first floor more than 700 feet away. Frost, a preservationist with the University of Iowa Library, volunteered his energy and expertise in the cleanup, and in doing so earned first crack at reclaiming Davis' damaged letter. Chemical poultices, cleansers, and a handful of other tricks could only do so much to bring it back to its original condition, Frost said. The paper is based in Biloxi, Miss. A version of the story also ran on the websites of the BILOXI SUN HERALD, also based in Mississippi, the TIMES PICAYUNE in New Orleans, KATC-TV in Louisiana, and other media outlets. More >>

Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/

Support Project CALM: http://www.givetoiowa.org/calm

Alumni Fly Hawkeye Flag In Illinois (Kansas City Star, April 4)
 
Some UNIVERSITY OF IOWA alumni elected to show school pride in an odd way two weeks ago, hanging an Iowa flag atop a state building -- in Illinois. A construction crew in Springfield, Ill., apparently raised the University of Iowa's Hawkeye emblem while working on a historic building last week, unaware that only U.S. and state flags are typically allowed to fly atop state buildings. The rules apply to state buildings that are under construction as well, so state officials in Illinois ordered the university flag taken down last weekend. Several workers for the project's general contractor, Halverson Construction Co., attended the UI and apparently wanted to show pride in their alma mater. More >>

Hoover Discusses Testing In Special Report
(CBS Evening News, April 3-4)
 
HIRAM D. "H.D." HOOVER, professor emeritus of the Iowa Testing Programs in the University of Iowa College of Education, is interviewed for a two-part story on academic testing. "The Trouble With Testing" aired April 3 and "Too Much Testing?" aired April 4. Both stories may be read or viewed via Web browser at the following links:
Too Much Testing? More >> = ILC-SearchStories
The Trouble With Testing More >> = ILC-SearchStories

College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/

Me and My Microbes: An eye-opening UI class gives students new respect for their microscopic friends and enemies. More >>

Card Art: Before libraries had computers, they had the card catalog. An inventive UI project turns obsolete pieces of paper into fanciful works of art. More >>

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UI National News Highlights: http://www.uiowa.edu:80/~ournews/national.html

UI Alumni Association: http://www.iowalum.com

UI Foundation: http://www.uifoundation.org

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