University of Iowa Mourns Virginia Tech Victims

University of Iowa Interim President Gary Fethke has joined the entire UI community and the rest of the country in expressing sympathy for, and solidarity with, the Virginia Tech University campus following Monday's deadly shootings there. The U.S. Flag atop the Old Capitol will remain at half-staff through Sunday, and a memorial service and other activities are planned on the UI campus next week. More >>

Lickliter Thrilled To Be A Hawkeye

As newly appointed University of Iowa head men's basketball coach Todd Lickliter answered questions during his introductory news conference, one message was loud and clear. He couldn't be more thrilled to be a Hawkeye.
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U.S.News Ranks 21 UI Programs Among Top 10 In Nation Among Public Schools

U.S.News & World Report now ranks 21 University of Iowa graduate programs and colleges among the 10 best in the country among public universities, placing five of them in first place. "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008" ranks the UI's physician assistant, nursing service administration and gerontological/geriatric nursing graduate programs as first among public universities. Previous No. 1 rankings of two other UI graduate programs -- speech-language pathology and audiology -- are being carried over into the guidebook's print edition, which hit newsstands April 2. More >>

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Lie, UI Officials Congratulate Wall Street Journal For Pulitzer Prize

University of Iowa finance professor Erik Lie congratulated Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Forelle and James Bandler for the Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting they were awarded today and said he was grateful his research into stock options backdating helped them break the story. More >>

Shock Options A UI Finance Professor Targets Unscrupulous Executives (Iowa Alumni Magazine): www.iowalum.com/magazine/apr07/shock_options.html

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

UI Reflects On April 13 Tornado Anniversary

A year has passed since tornadoes tore through Iowa City, and scars from the storm remain on the University of Iowa campus. Dozens of trees have yet to be replanted. UI Fleet Services employees continue to work in a mobile home because their building was destroyed by the storm. And Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters are living in temporary quarters until their house is rebuilt. But the April 13 anniversary also served as a reminder of the strength, resilience and compassion of the campus community, UI leaders say. More >>

UI College Of Engineering Alumnus Receives Congressional Gold Medal

When surviving members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen gathered in Washington, D.C. March 29 to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, a University of Iowa College of Engineering Alumnus was among them. Luther H. Smith of Villanova, Pa., joined some 300 colleagues at a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. More >>

University of Iowa College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/

UI Researcher: Crocodiles Likely Swam Across The Atlantic

What can fossils of ancient animals tell us about the history of modern animals? Quite a bit, according to Chris Brochu, associate professor of geoscience in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Brochu is the co-author of an article published in the March 7 issue of the Royal Society Journal that tells how a fossil of a crocodile that lived millions of years ago in Puerto Rico helped reveal that related crocodiles likely came to live in present-day South America by swimming across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa. More >>

UI Department of Geoscience: http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/

Study Links Emotions And Moral Judgment
 
Would you smother a baby to save the lives of a room full of people? Faced with this hypothetical scenario, most people would let emotion override cold, hard logic. But scientists investigating the role of emotion in moral judgments have found that damage to a particular region of the brain, critical for emotional processing, seems to eliminate the emotional component, leaving only the rational response to this type of moral dilemma. More >>

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

UI Researcher Promotes Quitting Smoking As Achievable Process
 
Smokers have seen the graphic images of lungs drenched in black, tar-like substances. They know the dangers of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and emphysema. Yet health-risk awareness does not seem to prompt smokers to put out their cigarette. More >>

UI College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/

UI Team Identifies Protein That May Promote Migraines
 
A University of Iowa study may provide an explanation for why some people get migraine headaches while others do not. The researchers found that too much of a small protein called RAMP1 appears to "turn up the volume" of a nerve cell receptor's response to a neuropeptide thought to cause migraines. More >>

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/gradprgm.htm

UI Press Releases Iowa Poetry Prize Winners
 
"Sunday Houses the Sunday House" by Elizabeth Hughey and "American Spikenard" by Sarah Vap, winners of the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize, is now available from the University of Iowa Press. More >>

University of Iowa Press: http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/

Longtime University Symphony Conductor Dixon Dies
 
James A. Dixon, professor emeritus of the University of Iowa School of Music, longtime conductor of the UI Symphony Orchestra, and former music director and conductor of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, died April 3 in Iowa City at the age of 78. His death was attributed to complications from pneumonia and flu, for which he had been hospitalized for about 10 days. More >>

UIAA Distinguished Alumni Award:http://www.iowalum.com/daa/dixon.html

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra: http://www.uiowa.edu/~orchestr/UISO.htm

Vonnegut Taught At Iowa Writers' Workshop
(Chicago Tribune, April 12)

A story about the death of author Kurt Vonnegut notes that in 1965, Vonnegut left the family home in Cape Cod and rolled into Iowa City in a dilapidated Volkswagen to join the faculty of the University of Iowa's IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP. It would turn out to be an auspicious move. A colleague at the workshop, critic Robert Scholes, became his champion and devoted a chapter to Vonnegut's fiction in "The Fabulators," a 1967 book of criticism that began to alter the view of Vonnegut in scholarly circles. More >>

Former Iowa Poet Laureate and longtime workshop instructor Marvin Bell remembers Vonnegut: http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/

The Writing University: http://writinguniversity.uiowa.edu/

Kurtz Helps Craft Model Organ Donation Law
(Washington Post, April 4)

A story about the effort to craft a new model uniform law for organ donations that some ethicists and health care experts are concerned it tilts too far to allowing donations. "What we're trying to do is come up with a set of uniform rules that will encourage more donations," said SHELDON F. KURTZ, a University of Iowa law professor who helped craft the model law. "The death of any donor is always unfortunate, but the question is, can some good come from it?" Among many changes, the measure expands the list of people who can consent to an unconscious patient becoming a donor, and makes it clear that a person's decision to be an organ donor cannot be revoked by anyone else. More >>

UI College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/

Slate To Publish IEM Data
(Slate.com, March 20)
 
Slate, the daily online magazine, has launched a 2008 Political Futures Database, which utilizes data from three prediction markets to forecast the outcome of 2008 Presidential and Congressional races. Until Election Day 2008, Slate will publish hourly updates of the key data from the three prediction markets: the Iowa Electronic Markets at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, ntrade.com, and Casualobserver.net, beginning with the Republican and Democratic Presidential primary races and adding 2008 Congressional races. More >>

Iowa Electronic Markets: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

Havens Comments On 'Grey's Anatomy'
(Gannett News Service, March 19)
 
Not counting "American Idol," "Grey's Anatomy" has been the top-rated series on TV among viewers ages 18 to 49. TIM HAVENS, a University of Iowa professor of communications, says that “Grey’s” shares a quality with a certain 1980s cop show. "It is the first medical drama primarily centered on women characters, and I think that's really unique and I think a lot of women respond to that," Havens says. "Back in the '80s, 'Cagney & Lacey' was the first female-centered cop show and that was really talked about because it was new and I think this gives something new to women." More >>

UI Department of Communications Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/

Learning To Expect The Unexpected
(Nursing Network, Winter 2006)

A nursing career can take a person to unexpected places. For Army Captain Eli Seeley, (B.S.N. 1997), that is true both figuratively and literally. His career as a trauma nurse has taken him from Iowa to Ft. Riley, Kan., to bases in San Antonio and El Paso, Texas, Bosnia, Iraq and Germany. More >>

Profile: Kembrew McLeod, Communication Studies
(fyi, April 9)

For a guy who sold his soul (repeatedly), Kembrew McLeod is doing OK. More >>

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