February 2003

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POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST

Alumni Reunion, June 5-8Alumni and friends of the University of Iowa are invited to return to campus this spring for the UI Alumni Reunion, June 5-8, to reconnect with the University of Iowa, classmates, friends, and faculty that you haven't seen in a while. Enjoy the opportunity to relive memories of your days on campus. The University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Alumni Association will be honoring the graduating classes of 1963, 1958, 1953 and all years prior during Alumni Reunion 2003. Be sure not to miss one of the highlights of reunion weekend, the Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony, which will honor the 2003 recipients of the highest honor bestowed by the UI Alumni Association. Visit www.iowalum.com/reunions for information about the weekend's events.

GENERAL NEWS

HEALTH NEWS

ARTS NEWS

UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

FEATURES
GENERAL NEWS

New UI Journalism Building CampaignGannett Foundation Commits $250,000 To UI Journalism Building Campaign
The Gannett Foundation of McLean, Va., The Des Moines Register and the Iowa City Press-Citizen have pledged a gift of $250,000 to the University of Iowa Foundation for the UI journalism building campaign. Pamela Creedon, the UI journalism and mass communication school's director, said the gift demonstrates Gannett's commitment to the future of journalism education at Iowa.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0113gannett.html
UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication: http://www.uiowa.edu/~journal/
UI Journalism and Mass Communication Building: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/news/buildings/journalism/index.shtml

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Tippie College of BusinessFinancial Times Ranks UI MBA Program Among Top In World
 The Financial Times of London has ranked the Tippie School of Management at the University of Iowa 52nd among the top full-time MBA programs in the world. Published Jan. 20, the rankings highlight the top schools among the 1,500 MBA programs in the world. The Tippie School's rank placed it 36th among U.S. programs and 15th among programs at public U.S. universities.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0122mba-rank.html
UI Tippie School of Management--M.B.A. Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/registrar/catalog/TippieCollegeofBusiness/TippieSchoolofManagementMBAProgram.html
UI Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

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UI Marketing Students Rate Super Bowl Ads
A group of marketing students at the University of Iowa paid close attention to commercials aired during the Super Bowl, taking part in a survey of the best and worst ads. The big winner in the survey was Anheuser Busch, although no particular ads stood out, according to Baba Shiv, associate professor of marketing in the Tippie College of Business. He organized the survey as a teaching tool for his marketing and advertising classes.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0127super-bowl-ads.html

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UI Dept. of PsychologyHousehold Tasks Problematic For Female Cardiac Patients
Returning too soon to traditional household tasks, such as cleaning and laundry, may be contributing to poor health and even death among female cardiac patients. Two recent studies led by Jerry Suls, a professor of psychology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, suggest that the type and duration of the household chores that typically fall to women leads them to overexert themselves more often than men following a cardiac event like a heart attack.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/020303female-cardiac.html
UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
UI Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/

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Engineer Gets $771,000 NIH Grant To Study Blindness
In a research project that uses artificial intelligence to search for inherited causes of blindness, Andrew Williams, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, has won a three-year, $771,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/020403blindness-study.html
UI College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/

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HEALTH NEWS

UI Health Care Eye Specialist Warns Of Glaucoma Risk
There are approximately 2.2 million Americans age 40 and older who have glaucoma, and half are at risk for going blind because they don't know they have the disease. You could be one of them.Glaucoma is a condition in which the optic nerve, responsible for transmitting visual information from the eye to the brain, is damaged. It can be associated with elevated pressure within the eye and could lead to vision loss. It may begin with loss of peripheral vision, then advance to a reduction in central vision and then can potentially lead to blindness.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0122glaucoma.html
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/
UI Health Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/

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UI College of NursingFirst-Of-Its-Kind Degree Offered By UI College Of Nursing
Starting this week, the University of Iowa College of Nursing is offering a new degree program that provides an option for people looking to start a new career. Like students in medicine, dentistry, law and other professions, students in this program already have completed an undergraduate degree. The professional Master's in Nursing and Healthcare Practice (MNHP) not only addresses the growing nursing shortage, but also responds to one of the most rapidly growing segments of applications to nursing programs: career changers.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0124nursingdegree.html
UI College of Nursing Professional Masters Program: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/academprog/profmasters/
UI College of Nursing: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/

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Physician Studies Hypnosis As Sedation Alternative
Hypnosis may conjure up images of swinging pendulums and people obeying strange commands to act like chickens, but a University of Iowa physician is studying hypnosis for a very different purpose: as a possible alternative for drug-induced sedation.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/020603hypnosis.html

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ARTS NEWS

Hancher AuditoriumRecording Of Hancher-Premeired "Nuevo" Garners Grammy Nomination
The Kronos Quartet's recording of "Nuevo," a program of Mexican popular music co-commissioned by the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium, is a Grammy Award nominee in the "Best Classical Crossover Album" category. The 2003 Grammy Award nominations were announced Jan. 3 in Los Angeles by the Recording Academy. The Kronos Quartet performed the world premiere of the "Nuevo" concert last March 2 in Hancher Auditorium.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0110kronos.html
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/

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Workshop Faculty Galvin, McPherson Win Literary Awards
Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty members James Galvin and James Alan McPherson are among nine writers who have been awarded Lannan Literary Fellowships. The nine new winners will share $545,000 from the Lannan Foundation, which launched its literary fellowship program in 1989 to honor writers of exceptional quality. In addition to being members of the permanent faculty of the Writers' Workshop, both Galvin and McPherson are workshop graduates.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0117lannan-fellowships.html
UI Writers' Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/

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Hancher, Iowa City Schools Partner With Kennedy Center
The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium and the Iowa City Community School District have been selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to participate in the Partners in Education Institute, May 14-17. Twelve arts organizations and school system teams nationwide were selected to participate in the institute, which will focus on the development of arts education programs for teachers.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/020703kennedycenter.html

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UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

Brain ImagingAndreasen Comments On Brain Imaging
(Time, Jan. 20)
The brain, wondrous as it is, poses a special challenge for scientists. Mental disorders play out in a 3-lb. universe that is largely inaccessible without drastic -- and extremely risky -- surgery. At least it was until the 1970s, when the first crude pictures of the living brain were taken. Today researchers can peer into that universe with a variety of scanning technologies that capture the brain in action and send back beautifully detailed images that are the next best thing to being there. The best results come from combining two or more scanning methods. Some capture the size and shape of brain structures; others freeze-frame the ever shifting activity of nerve cells as they fire and subside. With this information, doctors are beginning to understand--at the level of the neuron--how mental illnesses occur. "Brain imaging," says DR. NANCY ANDREASEN, a leading schizophrenia researcher at the University of Iowa and the MIND Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., "has changed the face of psychiatry." Schizophrenia is where much of the pioneering work in this field has occurred, and the images on the following pages trace the remarkable journey that scientists are taking as they search for the roots of this disorder and perhaps someday a cure.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030120-407352,00.html
UI Mental Health Clinical Research Center: http://www.psychiatry.uiowa.edu/clinical/Default.html
Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html

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National Advanced Driving SimulatorNADS Readies For $5.1 Million Study
(CBS News, Jan. 29)
Iowa drivers will soon do something that would ordinarily be ill-advised and illegal: Get behind the wheel after guzzling vodka-laced fruit juice. The liquored-up motorists will be drinking and driving in the name of science. Researchers will test their performance and reaction times in the world's most sophisticated driving simulator. The final touches are being put on software and instrumentation at the NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR in preparation for the three-year, $5.1 million study. The simulator is owned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and run by the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. The payoff for researchers - and taxpayers who covered the majority of the cost - is the promise of reducing crashes and deaths. When the trials begin this spring, more than 300 participants will be tested on their ability to drive at varying levels of impairment.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/29/tech/main538387.shtml
National Advanced Driving Simulator at UI: http://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/

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Weinstein: Much Scoliosis Misinformation
(Newsday, Feb. 5)
The long-held belief that a curvature of the spine should be aggressively treated to prevent a lifetime of pain and disability is often wrong, according to results from a new study. Doctors at the University of Iowa have been following untreated scoliosis patients for 50 years - before bracing and surgery became popular - and their final report found little evidence of suffering. "There is a lot of misinformation in the literature," said Dr. STUART WEINSTEIN, an endowed chairman of orthopedic surgery at the Iowa medical school and lead author of the study that appears today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Patients have been told that they will be crippled by scoliosis. For the majority of patients, this is not so. Most children never need treatment."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsback053117390feb05,0,4904711.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/orthopaedicsurgery/index.html
UI Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

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Iowa River BankUI Lovebirds Pick River
 (Chronicle of Higher Ed, Feb. 14)
A feature on the romantic hot spots around America's college campuses says of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: "With the Iowa River running through the campus, lovebirds have developed a new term to describe their smooching sessions near the water: 'river-banking.'"
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i23/23a00801.htm
Iowa River Webcam: http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/webcam/

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FEATURES

Dr. Ponseti Has Healing TouchPonseti Has Healing Touch
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/feb03/exclusive/ponseti.html

Shambaugh House Provides Glimpse Of Earlier Time
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/feb03/housekeeping.html

UI Office Helps Iowans Save History
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2002_v40/02072003/pieces.html

Lloyd Flips For Gothic Coin Design
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2002_v40/02072003/lloyd.html

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