Fanfare To Mark Sept. 1 Hawkeye Football Game In Chicago
Black and gold will flow through Chicago's streets the last week of August as University of Iowa fans descend on the Windy City for the Hawkeye football team's Sept. 1 season opener against Northern Illinois University at Soldier Field. More >>
Related: Registration Under Way For UI Homecoming Reunion 2007 http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/hrw/index.html
UI External Support Is A Record $382.2 Million For 2006-07
University of Iowa faculty, together with staff and students, generated an all-time record $382.2 million in grants and contracts for UI research, education and service during fiscal 2007, a 4.8 percent increase from 2006. More >>
Research: http://research.uiowa.edu/
Researcher Challenges Explanations Of Children's 'Word Spurts'
Researchers have long known that children experience a vocabulary explosion at about 18 months of age, suddenly learning words at a much faster rate. Conventional theory offered complex explanations for the phenomenon. But new research by a University of Iowa professor suggests far simpler mechanisms may be involved: word repetition, variations in the difficulty of words, and the fact that children are learning multiple words at once. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
UI, Iowa City Students Participate In NASA Mars Mission Project
Two local teenagers and a University of Iowa graduate student have a rare opportunity to participate in a Mars mission. Juan Diaz, a graduate student pursuing his doctorate in the UI College of Education Science Education Program, has been paired with City High School students Tomas Daly and Fletcher Bates. The three will explore the surface of Mars as participants in the Phoenix Student Intern Program for the 2007-08 Phoenix Mars Lander Mission, a NASA project involving 13 teams selected from across the country. More >>
Science Education: http://www.uiowa.edu/admissions/undergrad/majors/at-iowa/ScienceEd.html
Men's Golf Coach Hankins, Former Women's Coach Thomason To Lead Team U.S.A.
Mark Hankins, the newly named men's golf coach at the University of Iowa, and former UI women's Coach Diane Thomason will coach the United States men and women's golf teams, respectively, at the 2007 World University Games. The World University Games are being held Aug. 8-18 in Bangkok, Thailand, with competition scheduled for Aug. 14-17 at Water Mill Golf and Gardens in Nakhonnayok, Thailand. More >>
Athletics: http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/sports/index.html
UI Researchers Urge Caution When Using Dietary Supplements
Recent research conducted by faculty from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the UI College of Public Health suggests that patients who fail to inform their physicians about herbal dietary supplement use may be at increased risk for certain side effects. More >>
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.int-med.uiowa.edu
Altering A Protein Makes Mice Less Fearful
A University of Iowa study shows that loss or chemical inhibition of a protein, known as acid sensing ion channel protein, reduces innate fear behavior in lab animals, making normally timid mice relatively fearless. The findings might provide useful insight into anxiety disorders and may even point the way to a new therapeutic target. More >>
Carver College Of Medicine: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/CCOM/index.html
UI Hospitals And Clinics Specialists Once Again
Rank Among The Best
A survey of hospitals in the United States published in the latest issue of U.S.News & World Report magazine again ranks University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics among the nation's best hospitals. More >>
UI Hospitals And Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/index.html
University of Iowa International Writing Program Celebrates 40 Years
The University of Iowa International Writing Program, the unique "United Nations of Writing," will begin the celebration of its 40th anniversary by welcoming writers from 31 countries to a busy fall residency, late August through late November on the UI campus in Iowa City. More >>
International Writing Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp
Poetry By The Detainees Of Guantanamo Bay Finds Its Way to America
The University of Iowa Press responded to international interest in "Poems from Guantanamo," an anthology of poetry written by detainees imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, by moving its publication date from Aug. 15 to Aug. 1. More >>
University of Iowa Press: http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu
Hygienic Lab Tested Chinese-made Toy For Lead
(Chicago Tribune, Aug. 8)
The makers of a Thomas & Friends spinning top on Wednesday initiated a voluntary recall of the product, prompted by a Tribune test that found a painted wooden handle on one of the toys contained 40 times the legal limit for lead. The toymaker, Schylling Associates, of Rowley, Mass., said the recall would cover 24,000 Chinese-made tops shipped by the company between June 2001 and July 2002. Tribune recently had the Schylling top tested by the Hygienic Laboratory of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA as part of a broader examination of the hazards hidden among popular children's products. More >>
Related:Atchison Named Director Of University Hygienic Laboratory: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/july/071707atchison-uhl.html
Hygienic Laboratory: http://www.uhl.uiowa.edu
Iowa City One Of 30 Best Towns In America
(Outside, August 2007)
In its annual survey of the best places to live, Outside magazine picked Iowa City as the best in the Midwest. "Surrounded by hills and bisected by the Iowa River, the liberal college town is or has been home to notable writers like 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner JAMES ALAN McPHERSON and the late Kurt Vonnegut, who penned part of the seminal 'Slaughterhouse-Five' here. The University of Iowa's nearly 30,000 students keep this oak-lined Pleasantville real, with six yoga studios, the famed Prairie Lights independent bookstore, and everything from Ethiopian cafes to grilled-cheese stands." The article is not yet available online.
Study Examines Negative Talk Among Girls
(ABC News, July 16)
Girls who dish to their friends about their problems may actually be increasing their misery by doing so. Such are the findings of a study released July 15, in which researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that "co-rumination" -- in other words, excessively discussing problems with close friends -- appears to increase anxiety and depression in young and adolescent girls. Psychology experts grappled over exactly how the findings should be interpreted. "It should be noted that this is shows a co-occurrence of two behaviors . . . and not a causal relationship," said DR. CHRIS OKIISHI, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. "In other words, this study does not show that one causes the other -- just that they occurred at the same time." More >>
Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html
UI Study: Women Rule The House
(Ellwood City Ledger, July 15)
"A team of academic researchers spent two years and a whole lot of money figuring out something that any married woman could have told you in about 10 seconds, and for free: The ladies rule," writes Larissa Theodore. "At least, that is, when it comes to home life. While some four decades after the start of the women's liberation movement, women still face lower pay, glass ceilings and residual condescending attitudes in the professional sphere, a two-year study out of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA proves they have more power at home." This syndicated story is appearing widely. The newspaper is based in Pennsylvania. More >>
From Burundi To Canada To Kansas To Iowa, A Star Runner Chases Her Dream
When Diane Nukuri left her native Burundi for the Francophone Games in Canada, she told her family she wouldn't be back. That was six years ago, and Nukuri--a distance runner who had competed for Burundi in the 2000 Olympics--was only 16. "I wanted to keep running and going to school, and I didn't know if I could safely do that back home," she says. So after arriving in Canada, Nukuri called an emigrant cousin she'd never met, persuaded the woman to take her in, and slipped away from her teammates. Nukuri's flight wasn't an escape so much as a pursuit. In fall 2006, her quest brought her to The University of Iowa, where she enrolled as a communication studies major and immediately became a standout athlete. More >>
Flower Power: Bob Brooks And Company Help Keep Campus Green
The next time you stop to smell the rhododendrons, you might want to thank Robert Brooks. He's associate director of campus and facilities planning for landscape services in UI Facilities Management. Brooks and his crew of 43 employees are responsible for designing and maintaining everything around buildings and above-ground on campus, including sidewalks, institutional roads, signs, lighting, and more than 1,000 acres of grass, shrubs, trees and flowers. More >>
HawkeyeSports.com: http://hawkeyesports.collegesports.com/
UI News Services: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews
UI Website: http://www.uiowa.edu/
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
UI Photos: http://www.uiowa.edu/~urphopix
UI NEWS DIGEST - For University of Iowa news on a daily basis, you are invited to subscribe to the UI NEWS DIGEST by following these instructions:
Point your Web browser at
http://list.uiowa.edu/archives/ui-news.html, click the link that says "Join or leave the list (or change settings)," and follow the instructions. Alternately, you can subscribe via email. To do so:
1. Send your request to mailto:listserv@list.uiowa.edu
2. In the body of the message, write "subscribe ui-news"
@IOWA is a MONTHLY email newsletter of Iowa news summaries prepared through a joint effort of University News Services, the UI Alumni Association, and the UI Foundation.
Editor: Stephen Pradarelli, email: stephen-pradarelli@uiowa.edu
Production: Communications, UI Alumni Association
Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Update My Information | Archives
The University of Iowa Alumni Association,
One West Park Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52246
Phone: 319-335-3294 or 800-469-2586