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UI Alumni Invited To Homecoming Reunion 2005

University of Iowa alumni are invited to Homecoming Reunion Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, when a full slate of festivities is sure to bring back memories of great times on campus. The University of Iowa Alumni Association (UIAA) is sponsoring the celebration along with several UI colleges. Registration is now under way at http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/hrw; registration deadline is Sept. 16. More >>

New Center Formed To Study Undergraduate Education

The University of Iowa College of Education has launched a new center dedicated to the study of undergraduate education in America, from how academics and social experiences affect students to the methods used by schools to improve students' chances for success in the classroom and beyond graduation. More >>
College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/

UI Business Students Win Krause Challenge Investment Competition

The University of Iowa has won the 2005 Krause Challenge investment competition with an 18.77 percent return on its investment portfolio to beat Iowa State University, the University of Northern Iowa, and Drake University. The UI's investments also beat the annual Dow Jones industrial average of 4.53 percent and S&P 500 of 8.04 percent. More >>
Tippie College of Business-Finance: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/finance/

Public Policy Center Gets $16.5 Million Highway Study Grant

The University of Iowa Public Policy Center will receive a $16.5 million federal grant over the next four years to test a new mileage-based approach to financing public roads. Funding for the study — which will look at charging road users for miles actually driven — is included in a $286.5 billion highway and mass transit bill passed July 29 by Congress. More >>
Public Policy Center: http://ppc.uiowa.edu/
College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/

UI Ranked 21st Best U.S. Public National University

The University of Iowa is the 21st best public national university in the country, according to the latest rankings published by the magazine U.S. News & World Report. The ranking places the UI in a tie with Ohio State, Purdue, Rutgers and Texas A&M universities. More >>

Deadly Parasite Genomes Sequenced By International Team

A major international scientific effort, which included a University of Iowa biochemist, has sequenced the genomes of three related parasites that collectively cause death and illness among millions of people every year, mostly in impoverished third world countries. More >>
Department of Biochemistry: http://www.biochem.uiowa.edu/

UI Researchers Prevent Hereditary Deafness In Mice

Working with mice, University of Iowa scientists and colleagues from Okayama University, Japan, have shown that it is possible to cure a certain type of hereditary deafness by silencing a gene that causes hearing loss. More >>
Department of Otolaryngology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/otolaryngology/index.html
Molecular Otolaryngology Research Lab: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/otolaryngology/MorlLab/

National Cancer Institute Re-Accredits Holden Cancer Center

Leaders of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa announced that they have received a renewal of their formal designation as a cancer center from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The renewal includes a five-year, $11 million P30 Cancer Center Support Grant. More >>
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cancercenter/

UI Theater Professor Forsythe Wins Hubbard Award For Outstanding Education

Eric Forsythe, a professor in the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts and the artistic director of Iowa Summer Rep, has been selected to receive the Hubbard Award for Outstanding Education. More >>
Theatre Arts: http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/
ArtsIowa: http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa/

UI Museum Of Art Shows Design Work By Professor Emeritus Hu Aug. 20-Oct. 23

"Hu Hung-shu: My Heart and My Blood," a diverse exhibition of more than 60 artworks giving an overview of the design work by the University of Iowa professor emeritus, will be shown Aug. 20-Oct. 23 in the Carver Gallery of the UI Museum of Art (UIMA). More >>
Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/index.htm

Blumberg Writes On Spence Labs Attack
(Washington Post, July 17)

MARK BLUMBERG, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Iowa, writes a first-person account of the attacks on Spence Labs and Seashore Hall by animal right activists last fall. In the piece, he likens the attacks to terrorist attacks and expresses disgust at the activists' tactics. He also expresses frustration at a U.S. Senate hearing into animal rights groups that degenerated into partisan bickering. More >>
Neuroscience Graduate Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~neuro/NeuroHome.htm
About Mark Blumberg: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Blumberg/Blumberg.html

IEM, Partner To Open Hurricane Market
(Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, July 19)

Storm watchers, listen up. If you think you have the weather knowledge and financial fortitude, you'll soon have the chance to bet for -- or against -- the coastline nearest you. A trio of professors at the University of Miami is launching an electronic futures market to forecast where a hurricane will make landfall in the United States. Traders who buy or sell the right spot at the right time can cash in, maybe clearing enough profit to buy a small generator. Here's how the market is designed to work: Investors can open accounts by sending any amount from $5 to $500 to the Iowa Electronic Markets, or IEM, which is operated by the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, a University of Miami partner. All IEM transactions are made electronically and posted in real time. As soon as a tropical storm earns a name, the market will open, and online trading will begin. Depending where the storm is at the time, it will be declared an Atlantic or a Gulf storm, and only contracts, or shares, for that U.S. coastline will be sold. The newspaper is based in Ohio. The same story appeared on the Web sites of the CHARLOTTE (N.C.) OBSERVER, LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, MYRTLE BEACH (S.C.) SUN NEWS, MONTEREY (Calif.) HERALD, BRADENTON (Fla.) HERALD, BILOXI (Miss.) SUN HERALD, SAN LUIS OBISPO (Calif.) TRIBUNE, CENTRE DAILY TIMES (Pa.), GRAND FORKS HERALD, MACON (Ga.) TELEGRAPH, KANSAS CITY STAR, DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE and numerous other news organizations.
Iowa Electronic Markets: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

Skorton, Davisson Write On Asian Meetings
(Wall Street Journal, Aug. 2)

UI President DAVID SKORTON and associate professor ROBIN DAVISSON say in an opinion article that the United States has made it increasingly difficult for American colleges and universities to work overseas and recruit international students. They recently traveled to Asia and met with university and education officials there.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/august/080205wsj-reprint.pdf
About the President: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/bio.html
About Robin Davisson: http://www.anatomy.uiowa.edu/pages/directory/faculty/davisson.html

Kohatsu Questions Long Term Affects Of Atkins
(Financial Times, Aug. 1)

Atkins shot to global prominence about three years ago after its diets, which included eating steak and eggs, caught the imagination of a U.S. population battling rising waistlines and obesity. Atkins suffered as doubts grew about the effectiveness of the low-carb diet and as nutritionists started to advocate cutting only certain carbohydrates. NEAL KOHATSU, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa, said: "It [the Atkins diet] did result in weight loss but there were potential long term safety issues, which is why it was not embraced by mainstream people in nutrition."
Department of Epidemiology: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/epi/
About Neal Kohatsu: http://www.publichealth.uiowa.edu/epi/faculty/neal_kohatsu.html

A Campus Transformed

Helping to build our university, alumni support breathes new life into the campus landscape. More >>

Will You Still Love Me?

A UI researcher gets a real eye-opener when he persuades senior citizens to cast stereotypes aside and talk about issues of intimacy and sexuality. More >>

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