UI Seeing Green: Launches Ambitious Energy Conservation Plan

The University of Iowa is on track to save more than $5 million in reduced energy expenditures for the 24-month period ending in June 2007, thanks to efforts launched by the Energy Conservation Advisory Council. Those accomplishments, and plans for future conservation measures, are summarized in the UI's new Energy Conservation Strategic Plan -- the most ambitious in the UI's 160-year history, and one of the most comprehensive in the Big Ten. More >>

Energy Conservation Website: http://energy.uiowa.edu/

‘Legacy Letter Project’ Invites Seniors To Put Memories In Writing

People age 50 or older who have learned life lessons along the way are encouraged to share that wisdom by writing a letter to University of Iowa
students. The "Legacy Letter Project" will accept letters through May 1. More >>

Aging Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/~interdi/aging/
Leisure Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/~interdi/leisure/
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/

Financial Times Ranks Tippie Tops Among MBA Programs

The Financial Times newspaper has ranked the full-time MBA program at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business among the best in the world in a recent survey, and ranked its accounting program in the top 10. More >>
Tippie School of Management: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/mba/
Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/
Tippie Professional Program in Accounting: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

UI Nets NASA Grant To Develop Pilot-Avionics Interface

Safer air travel is the goal of a new University of Iowa engineering study that is funded by a five-year, $887,628 grant from NASA. The project is designed to investigate common causes of pilot error by using simulated and real flight testing, according to principal investigator Tom Schnell, associate professor of industrial and mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Computer Aided Design's Operator Performance Laboratory in the UI College of Engineering. More >>

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: http://www.mie.engineering.uiowa.edu/
College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/
Center for Computer Aided Design: http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu/

A Little Goes A Long Way: Students Study Microfinancing In India

A group of 17 University of Iowa students recently visited India for the UI class "Microfinance for Women-Run Enterprises" and met hundreds of microloan recipients, most of them women, who started their own businesses and significantly improved their standards of living. More >>

Department of Geography: http://www.uiowa.edu/~geog/
Women in Science & Engineering (WISE): http://www.uiowa.edu/~wise/

Iowa Governor Proposes Budget To Promote Stem Cell Research

In a visit to the University of Iowa's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Jan. 25, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver advocated lifting the state's ban on embryonic stem cell research and announced that he will propose a $12.5 million investment to create the Iowa Center for Regenerative Medicine in Iowa City. Culver noted that other states, including Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri, are moving forward with research programs and legislation that includes opportunities for embryonic stem cell research, putting them at a competitive advantage over Iowa. More >>

Video (Quicktime): Remarks by Iowa Gov. Chet Culver during his visit to the UI Carver College of Medicine:
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/january/images/012507culver384K_Stream.mov

Video (Quicktime): Remarks by Dr. Mark Anderson, Potter-Lambert Chair of Cardiology, during Gov. Culver's visit to the UI Carver College of Medicine: http://newsreleases.uiowa.edu/2007/january/images/012507anderson384K_Stream.mov

Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

Animal Studies In Land Of Midnight Sun Illuminate Biological Clocks

The temperature hovers around freezing, but the sun is up for 24 hours each day. How do animals living in the continuous light of the Arctic summer know when to sleep and when to be active? Do they maintain a 24-hour cycle of rest and activity, or does living in continuous light alter their circadian rhythm? Answering these questions may improve our understanding of biological clocks -- the internal, genetically programmed cycle of rest and activity that affects the behavior, metabolism and physiology of all animals, including humans. More >>

Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/

UI And USC Scientists Identify Brain Region That Maintains Addiction

Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Iowa have identified a part of the brain that plays an important role in addiction. The researchers found that patients who experienced damage to a silver dollar-sized brain region called the insula were significantly more likely to lose their addiction to smoking than patients with lesions to other parts of the brain. More >>

Department of Neurology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/neurology/
UI Hospitals & Clinics:http://www.uihealthcare.com/index.html

'Iowa Writes' Web Project Turns 1, Seeks Work By Iowa Writers

To launch its second year of showcasing work by Iowa writers of all experience levels, the "Iowa Writes" project is seeking poems, stories and book excerpts to feature on the University of Iowa Web site, http://www.uiowa.edu, under the "Daily Palette" link. More >>

The Daily Palette: http://researchintermedia.art.uiowa.edu/dp/index.php?artwork=272
The Writing University: http://atlamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/main/info/21/

Noteworthy: West Music Helps Bring Antique Grand Piano To Old Capitol Museum

Through a generous gift-in-kind donation of $73,200, Iowa City's West Music Company has helped bring live music back to the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum with an 1878 Steinway and Sons grand piano. The 1,500-pound antique piano is the latest piece to be added to the collections at Old Capitol Museum and is located in the museum's recently renovated Senate Chamber. More >>
Old Capitol Museum: http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/tour/index.html

Article Salutes UI Art Building West
(Louisville Courier-Journal, Feb. 4)

Museum development consultant Chris Dercon of Munich, Germany, said that most of what's really hot in art in America is getting ready to happen in what we usually think of as the flyover states. "Forget the East Coast. Forget the West Coast," he said. Judging from an exhibit in St. Louis and architecture in Iowa, he may be right. "Let's applaud the decision by the American Institute of Architects on Jan. 12 to make the Steven Holl Architects' University of Iowa School of Art and Art History building its 2007 Honor Award for Architecture." The building, which the AIA calls "a hybrid instrument for teaching based on the idea of open edges and center," was one of 11 projects selected from nearly 700 submissions. More >>

School of Art and Art History: http://www.art.uiowa.edu/

You’ve Got Socks: Students Get Laundry E-mail Alerts
(San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 1)

Thanks to software installed along with new high-efficiency washers last fall, University of Iowa dormitory residents can receive e-mail alerts when their laundry cycles have finished. The school paid for the $13,000 annual software fee in part by raising the cost of a load of laundry by about 50 cents, a UI official said. More >>

University Housing: http://housing.uiowa.edu/index.htm

UI Press Publishes Guantánamo Detainee Poetry Collection
(Harper's, Jan. 23)

A story about the forthcoming book, "Detainees Speak: Declassified Poetry From Guantánamo Bay," notes that it is being published by the University of Iowa Press. One of the featured poets, Jumah al-Dossari, originally from Bahrain, was seized by Pakistani security forces in late 2001 and turned over to the United States. The U.S. military brought him to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, where, he claims, he was beaten, his life was threatened, and he was isolated from other prisoners for long stretches of time. More >>

UI Press: http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/

Teched Off: Drews Says Wireless Etiquette Needed
(Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 26)

As the number of wireless access points for laptop computers has increased on campuses, so has the number of reports of web surfing, text-messaging and gaming during class, causing students to become distracted from their studies. Jane Drews, information-technology security officer for the University of Iowa, believes that a solution to wireless distractions is etiquette education. "From the person who endlessly chats on a phone while in a restaurant, to someone's pager or cell going off in the middle of a presentation or lecture, we are creating a society of very rude technology users. We have an online class offered to freshmen that includes a responsible computing module, with a section on etiquette. I've suggested it be expanded to include classroom etiquette, too." More >>

Information Technology Services: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/its/

Planet Protector

Inspired by his Iowa upbringing and heroes, a UI alumnus turned pioneering space professor keeps a watchful eye on the skies that teem with unsuspected dangers. More >>

'We're All Color'

A fledging teacher struggling to cope in a segregated school discovers there are no easy, black-or-white answers to the question of racial identity. unsuspected dangers. More >>

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