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Tickets on sale for Joffrey Ballet benefit for Hancher/School of Music
Soon after the flood of June 2008 extensively damaged the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium/Voxman Music Building complex, UI arts administrators had offers of help from both the Joffrey Ballet and the Des Moines Civic Center. The result of those generous offers will be a benefit performance by the Joffrey Ballet on Sept. 11, 2009 -- the night before the Iowa/Iowa State football game in Ames -- in the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines. Hancher and the School of Music will share the proceeds. More >>
Buy tickets online:
http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/benefit/joffrey
Hawkeye Poll: Majority of Iowans support recognition of same-sex relationships
A new University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll shows that only about one-third of Iowans oppose both gay marriage and civil unions. The random statewide telephone poll of 978 registered voters found that 36.7 percent of Iowans oppose recognition of gay marriage and civil unions. Overall, 26.2 percent of respondents support gay marriage and 27.9 percent oppose gay marriage but support civil unions. The poll was conducted March 23 through March 31. More >>
Related: Work of Iowa law student cited in Iowa Supreme Court's Varnum decision
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/april/040309varnum_decision.html
UI physicists help find evidence for new particle of matter
Scientists -- including UI researchers -- at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., recently found evidence of an unexpected particle whose unusual characteristics may reveal new ways that major building blocks of matter, called quarks, can combine to form matter. More >>
Department of Physics: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/
Henry Fund wins stock portfolio competition again
For the fourth consecutive year the Tippie College of Business' Henry Fund student investment portfolio was named best in its class at a national conference last month. More >>
Tippie College of Business: http://tippie.uiowa.edu/
Related: Despite economic crisis, investment banks still hiring UI finance students
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/032709banks_hiring.html
Related: UI business student wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/april/040309student_indy.html
Big Ten Network features UI programming in April and May
This month the Big Ten Network begins its Campus Programming Showcase, which will offer the University of Iowa and other Big Ten universities an expanded opportunity to air academic programming. Upcoming shows produced by the UI include, in April, the debut of a new "Iowa Magazine" episode titled "Sustainability" and, in May, a new episode of "Conversations from the Iowa Writers' Workshop" featuring author Andre Dubus III. More >>
Gene discovery could lead to male contraceptive
A newly discovered genetic abnormality that appears to prevent some men from conceiving children could be the key to developing a male contraceptive, said University of Iowa researchers who reported their findings in the April 2 online edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics.
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Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/CCOM/
Study shows summer jobs may help prevent suicidal tendencies in at-risk teens
A University of Iowa study found that when a friend of a friend attempts suicide, at-risk teens are more likely to seriously consider doing so. But at-risk teens are less likely to be suicidal if they hold summer jobs. More >>
Department of Sociology: http://www.uiowa.edu/~soc/
Wireless technology could boost hand hygiene compliance
University of Iowa researchers have collaborated on a pilot study to create a low-cost "green" wireless technology that automatically tracks the use of hand hygiene dispensers when health care workers enter and exit patient rooms. The new monitoring method could potentially reduce costs while increasing hand hygiene compliance, which is essential for infection control in hospitals. More >>
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/internalmedicine/
UI Health Care announces new voluntary cost reduction programs
As part of its ongoing efforts to reduce expenses in keeping with the decline in the overall economic situation, University of Iowa Health Care on April 7 announced two new voluntary expense reduction programs. More >>
UI Hospitals & Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/
New exhibition at Figge April 19 features famous UI Museum of Art works
Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art-organized exhibition in the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in Davenport, Iowa. "A Legacy for Iowa: Pollock's 'Mural' and Modern Masterworks from the University of Iowa Museum of Art," opens Sunday, April 19 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 2. More >>
Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Herrera credits Writers' Workshop
The National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, announced March 12, was shared by two writers with close connections to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Workshop alumnus Juan Felipe Herrera was honored for "Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems," and former faculty member August Kleinzahler was honored for "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City." More >>
Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
UI alumnus and longtime Phillies announcer Harry Kalas dies at 73
(ESPN.com, April 13)
Radio and TV broadcaster Harry Kalas, whose baritone delivery and signature "Outta here!" home run calls provided the soundtrack to Philadelphia baseball for nearly four decades, died Monday, April 13 after collapsing in the broadcast booth before the Phillies' game against the Washington Nations. He was 73. The son of a Methodist minister, the Naperville, Ill., native graduated from the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA in 1959 with a degree in speech, radio and television. He was drafted into the Army soon after he graduated. More >>
University of Iowa Athletics: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/
Kalas Obituary: http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/42947607.html
Brogden targets disease-causing bacteria in mouth
(Medical News Today, April 3)
Research to develop a narrow-spectrum antibiotic that can target a particular species of bacteria without harming the other "good" bacteria present was described at the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Harrogate on April 2. Professor KIM BROGDEN from the University of Iowa attached a broad-spectrum antibiotic to a protein that targets a receptor on a particular bacterium's surface. More >>
College of Dentistry: http://www.dentistry.uiowa.edu/
UI looks to cut binge drinking
(Chicago Tribune, March 28)
University of Iowa officials are working to cut down on the city's binge-drinking culture while local police are considering ways to limit late-night fights outside bars. UI officials said on Friday, March 27 that they will focus on binge drinking instead of underage consumption because they say binge drinking poses a greater public health risk. "We are not about to launch a new era of temperance," said University of Iowa Provost WALLACE LOH. "Drinking has always been part of the college scene." About 60 Iowa officials, community leaders and bar owners proposed ideas such as nonalcoholic events at bars and curbing tailgating at Hawkeye football games. More >>
IWP writers open Berlin storefront
(New York Times, March 29)
Berlin is reclaiming its heritage as a center of literary culture. International Writing Program veteran Thomas Pletzinger was one of seven young writers who rented a storefront as "a kind of highbrow sweatshop for the stitching together of sentences." Writers from not only Germany but also Poland, Mexico, the United States and England came to celebrate it's opening: "Sasa Stanisic, a co-founder who is originally from Bosnia and is the author of 'How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone,' a novel in German set during the conflict in Bosnia, was among them. He held forth in English about a recent trip to Iowa, where he was a fellow at the INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM at the University of Iowa." More >>
International Writing Program: http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers
Busted! (Iowa Alumni Magazine)
Following a path that’s taken her from former University of Iowa cheerleader to hospital CEO to federal whistle-blower, Pam Davis believes in standing up for what’s right. And she’s not finished yet. More >>
Better with letters (Parent Times)
Pen pal programs provide opportunities for students young and old through the University of Iowa Center for Diversity & Enrichment and the group Students to Assist Recruitment, or STAR. More >>
Photo feature: Physics comes to life through instructional resources (fyi)
It's one thing to read about acoustics, perpetual motion, and heat and fluids, but seeing these principles demonstrated is something altogether different—and awesome, if you ask us. Dale Stille and the rest of the instructional resources team in the Department of Physics and Astronomy put together quite a show for students of all ages. More >>
Related: Dale Stille profile
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues/issues2008_v45/04062009/profiles.html
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