$1 Billion Campaign Surpasses Goal By $58 Million, Final Year Sets Record
 
UI and UI Foundation officials have announced that the University of Iowa's $1 billion "Good. Better. Best. Iowa" campaign—the largest such effort in Iowa history—surpassed its goal by more than $58 million. Read More >>

Professor Says Hamas Victory Is An 'Earthquake' In Middle East Politics
 
A University of Iowa law professor and Middle East expert said she is shocked by the results of the recent Palestinian elections and likens them to a political earthquake. Read More >>

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

Gifts Totaling $6.2 Million To Create Major Genetic Testing Lab At UI
 
The University of Iowa's Center for Macular Degeneration will be able to significantly advance its mission with the creation of a large-scale nonprofit genetics testing laboratory, made possible by two gifts totaling $6.2 million. The lab will be named the John and Marcia Carver Nonprofit Genetic Testing Laboratory in recognition of a $5 million gift from John Carver's mother, Lucille A. Carver of Muscatine, Iowa. The Foundation Fighting Blindness, a longtime major supporter of UI eye research, pledged an additional $1.2 million to support the work of the new laboratory. Read More >>

Center for Macular Degeneration: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/DEPT/EDUCAT/training/3-services-CMD.htm

UI Is Among Top Providers Of Peace Corps Volunteers
 
The University of Iowa has been recognized as one of the largest providers of volunteers for the Peace Corps in 2005, a demonstration of the university's commitment to civic engagement, according to Provost Michael Hogan. This year, 41 UI alumni are serving as Peace Corps volunteers, making the university the 25th largest alumni provider for the international aid organization among large colleges and universities. Read More >>

Civic Engagement Program: http://volunteer.uiowa.edu/index.php

UI Virtual Soldier Program Receives $1.6 Million To Help Design New Armor
 
The body armor worn by future U.S. soldiers likely will have a University of Iowa connection, thanks to a $1.6 million, three-year contract the army has signed with the UI's Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) Program. Read More >>

Center For Computer Aided Design: http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu/

UI Imaging Specialists Named In Industry Magazine's Top 10
 
Three imaging experts at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and UI Hospitals and Clinics have been voted "best of the best" by their peers in a survey run by Medical Imaging, a leading imaging industry magazine. Read More >>

Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/
UI Health Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/

UI Expert Discusses Meth Report, Substance Abuse In Iowa
  
Stephan Arndt, a University of Iowa expert on methamphetamine and other substance abuse, finds some positives in a recent state report on meth lab reduction in Iowa. He comments on the report and other ongoing meth supply and use problems in the state. Read More >>

Audio File: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2006/audio/012506_arndt-meth.mp3
Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html

UI Radiologist Sees Bigger Role For PET Imaging In Cancer Care
 
A limitation of current cancer care is the difficulty of quickly assessing how well a therapy is working. However, expanding the use of existing positron emission tomography (PET) technology can provide early and accurate assessment of a tumor's response to a particular therapy allowing physicians to better tailor a patient's treatment, according to Malik Juweid, M.D., associate professor of radiology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Read More >>

Department of Radiology: http://www.radiology.uiowa.edu/

Grant Will Support UI Patient Voice Project
 
The Patient Voice, a University of Iowa Arts Share project that links chronically ill patients with the writing expertise of graduate students in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been awarded a $9,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson/Society for the Arts in Healthcare. Read More >>

Writers' Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/

UI Writers' Workshop Alumnus Adam Haslett Wins 2006 PEN/Malamud Award
 
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus and recent visiting faculty member Adam Haslett has been selected, along with Tobias Wolff, to receive a 19th-annual PEN/Malamud Award. Given annually since 1988 in honor of the late Bernard Malamud, this award recognizes a body of work that demonstrates excellence in the art of short fiction. Read More >>

Arts Iowa: http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa/

Iowa Citizens Say They'll Miss Skorton
(Ithaca Journal, Jan. 21)
 
Iowa City community leaders and residents were surprised and saddened by the news that University of Iowa President DAVID SKORTON will depart later this year. "It's a total shock. I really thought Dave would be here until he retired. He was a great ambassador for the UI and Iowa City community," said Craig Gustaveson, president-elect of the Downtown Association. "He was so approachable," Gustaveson said. "That is one of the things I liked so much about him. It'll be hard to replace him." Skorton — who has spent more than two decades at UI in various roles including professor, physician, vice president for research and external relations — is well-known and well-liked in the Iowa City area. "He had tremendous vision and insight," said Iowa City Mayor Ross Wilburn. "He had a commitment to economic development, civic engagement and diversity." The paper is based in New York. Read More

Office of the President: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/index.html

Robinson Speaks At Maine Seminary Convocation
(Bangor Daily News, Jan. 24)
 
Ministers lined up Monday to thank author MARILYNNE ROBINSON for her respective and realistic portrayal of their profession in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel " Gilead." Robinson, a professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was the keynote speaker at the Bangor Theological Seminary's 101st Convocation held at the Hammond Street Congregational Church. Despite her own commitment to her faith, Robinson warned her audience Monday that it must be sensitive to the needs of the "unchurched." "We have got to be tenderly respectful of the unchurched because we have no idea what they are actually thinking," she said. "And sometimes the most moving, religious ideas that I hear come from people who have considered themselves to have no background in religion at all. If the churches could find any way to give them what they hope for, they probably would come to church," she said. "What they don't find in churches, if they should ever wander into one, is anything to explain to them what it's all about. Because there's a [perception] that has seeped into some parts of the culture that we don't talk about ideas here." Read More >>

Marilynne Robinson, Faculty: http://www.uiowa.edu/admissions/virtual-tours/vtFACULTYsay/vtfacu_robinson.html

Redlawsk: 'Noncandidates' Try Not To Look Eager
(Sacramento Bee, Jan. 30)
 
With just over 1,000 days remaining until Americans elect a new president, Iowa is producing a bumper crop of presidential wannabes — all of whom are working hard not to look like presidential wannabes. Noncandidates abound. With the state's fabled caucuses still two years away in January 2008, the politicians are participating in a time-honored ritual, where they all insist they're not running, even as they try to charm seen-it-all Iowans in stops at farms and coffee shops. "No one wants to look too ambitious," said DAVID REDLAWSK, professor of political science at the University of Iowa. "There's a real fear that you'll be tagged as jumping the gun." The paper is based in California. Read More >>

Department of Political Science: http://www.polisci.uiowa.edu/

Paper Reviews Adams' 'Pathology Of Love'
(New York Times, Jan. 30)
 
It would seem that in Iowa, where CHARLOTTE ADAMS is based, relationships are tempestuous. In five dances presented at the Joyce SoHo on Friday men and women struggled, combatively and tenderly, for the upper hand. There were no real winners in the dances, which highlighted movement phrases rather than fluid choreography. Ms. Adams, a dance faculty member at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, opened her program with "Blind Dogs Sing of Love," a work for seven from 2004 that features a painting by Margaret Wenk of a sword piercing a red heart. Dancers posed provocatively on a long wooden bench as Monteverdi selections played. The stage seemed to swarm with bodies, until dancers paired up; with arms and legs in sync, they spun and leapt into the air like water from a fountain. Hair flew. "The Pathology of Love," created by Ms. Adams in collaboration with the dancers Tony Orrico and Nicole Wong, was the most arresting work. Read More >>

Department of Dance: http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/index.html

Baseball Lore Listed On Website
(Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 10)
 
Sean Forman was working toward his doctorate in applied mathematics at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA during the winter of 1999-2000. The subject matter was coming rather easily to him — numbers always have — and his adviser had gone off to Italy. Forman found himself with some free time and no direct supervision and created Baseball-Reference.com. If a statistic or piece of information exists, Forman's voluminous Web site will likely have it or provide a link to a resource that does. Read More >>

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Smoke Signals

No butts about it—as efforts increase to convince smokers to quit, the issue arouses heated opinions about public health versus private rights. Read More >>

Reaching for the Skies

High-flying engineering students help bridge the gap between humans and technology. Read More >>

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