January 2003

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UI Old CapitolRecent selected University of Iowa news summaries prepared through a joint effort of University News Services, the UI Alumni Association, and the UI Foundation.


Editor: Linda Kettner, E-mail: linda-kettner@uiowa.edu

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In This Issue

ANNUAL REPORT

The University of Iowa president annually issues a report about the state of the university. Read the 2002 University of Iowa Annual Report, "Blueprints for the Future," at http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/news/annual_report2002/

GENERAL NEWS

HEALTH NEWS

ARTS NEWS

UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

FEATURES
GENERAL NEWS

Wilson Gift To Boost Hancher's Endowment For Educational Programs
Janice and Herb Wilson of Iowa City have made a generous gift to the University of Iowa Foundation to create an endowed fund to support Hancher Auditorium's educational programming.

The Janice A. and Herbert A. Wilson Arts Education Fund will support the Hancher Stage Door series, artist-in-residence activities and Iowa Communications Network (ICN) broadcasts, which provide arts exposure and education to thousands of grade K-12 students in Iowa each year.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1213wilson-gift.html
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/

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Boyd Appoints Two Groups To Review Aspects Of Pierce Case
University of Iowa Interim President Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd has announced the appointment of two groups to look into different aspects of the Pierre Pierce case. One team will investigate the university's involvement with the resolution of criminal charges against Pierce. Another committee will assess campus climate issues regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1216boyd-appoints-panels.html

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Old Capitol Dome Treks 115 Miles
If local residents along a 115-mile route between Galena, Ill. and Iowa City looked out their windows on the morning of Monday, Jan. 6, they may think they'd been magically transported to the University of Iowa's historic Old Capitol.

That's because they saw a part of the building -- the signature Old Capitol dome, about 18 feet wide in its wrapping and some 12,000 pounds in weight -- strapped to a flatbed truck moving past their front yards. The new dome, constructed by Renaissance Restoration Inc. of Galena, Ill. replaces the original, destroyed in a $5.6 million fire on Nov. 20, 2001. An important part of the Old Capitol restoration project, the dome will be gilded with gold and placed atop the Old Capitol building in early 2003.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1231old-cap.html
Photos of Old Capitol Dome "on-the-move":
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0105dome-photos.html
Old Capitol Museum: http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/

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NADS Awarded $2.9 Million For Alcohol, Driver Performance Research
The National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa has received $2.9 million from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to research the influence of alcohol on driver performance and behavior. The $2.9 million award is the first part of a proposed $5.1 million overall NADS project and will include a series of studies to be conducted over the next three years.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1231nads.html
NADS at UI: http://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/

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UI American Studies Cookbook Collects Recipes, Cultural Tidbits
American food is shrouded in mystery. Where did Jell-O come from? Why do some oats cook in one minute while others take 20? When did popcorn start appearing in movie theaters? And just who is Betty Crocker? The answers to these questions and many others can be found along with a host of regional, ethnic, and time-honored family recipes in the first-ever University of Iowa American Studies Cookbook.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1218cookbook.html
UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/news/

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HEALTH NEWS

Many Resources Are Available To Help Children With Delayed Talking
In addition to photos or a lock of hair, a baby book typically includes milestones such as first words and sentences. But sometimes these milestones are delayed, and children don't talk "when they should," causing concern for parents and caregivers. Delayed talking or problems with fluency have many different causes, so it is important for parents to seek out appropriate resources for diagnosis and treatment, said Debora Downey, a speech pathologist with the Center for Disabilities and Development at University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics. Early intervention is vital, as an undiagnosed language disorder can later be difficult to remediate and contribute to other learning problems.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1216delayed-talking.html
Center for Disabilities and Development at UIHC: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/uhs/index.cfm

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UI Studies Point To Alcohol Abuse Treatment Needs Of Older Iowans
Two University of Iowa investigations point to alcohol abuse problems in two groups of older Iowans: citizens age 65 and older and prison inmates age 55 and older. The two analyses, which appear in the November-December issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, suggest that both groups are not sufficiently diagnosed or treated for their problems.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1219alcoholabuse.html
Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse and Evaluation: http://iconsortium.subst-abuse.uiowa.edu/consortium.html

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Survey Finds Rural Kids At Greater Risk In Motor Vehicle Crashes
Children ages 6 and younger riding in motor vehicles in rural areas of Iowa are safely secured in the vehicle less often than those in more populated areas, according to study results compiled recently by the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC).

The study, conducted last summer, found that in communities with fewer than 2,500 residents, 62 percent of the children were appropriately restrained. By comparison, Iowa's largest communities (more than 50,000 residents) averaged 80 percent. Communities with the lowest rates of child restraint use were Sigourney (55.6 percent) and Pocahontas (60 percent). The highest rates were recorded in Cedar Falls (92 percent) and Iowa City (89.9 percent).
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1231children-risk-crashes.html
UI Injury Prevention Research Center: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/IPRC/

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ARTS NEWS

UI Opera Theater Production Wins National Opera Association Award
The University of Iowa Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theater has won first prize in the Opera Production Competition sponsored by the National Opera Association (NOA), an international organization that serves the opera performance and educational activities of academic institutions and small regional opera companies.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/december/1219operaaward.html
UI Martha-Ellen Tye Opera Theater: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/cosi/opera.htm
UI School of Music: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/
UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/

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Writers' Workshop Alumna Gish Jen Wins Lucrative Writing Honor
Gish Jen, an alumna of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with a $250,000 Strauss Living, the most lucrative literary honor in the United States. The Strauss Livings provide $50,000 per year for five years, to provide writers the freedom to devote their time and energy exclusively to writing. Two writers have been selected for the award every five years since 1983, and half the honorees have had connections with the Writers' Workshop.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/january/0108gish-jen.html
UI Writers' Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowaf.edu/

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UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

"Sun Rings" Is In Critic's Top Ten
(Los Angeles Times, Dec. 22)
Music critic Mark Swed listed notable music events of 2002, ten musical happenings that went inspiringly right in 2002. Topping the list was "Sun Rings," "Terry Riley's empyrean masterpiece for the Kronos Quartet, chorus, electronic sounds from outer space, and lavish visual projections provided one wild ride at its UNIVERSITY OF IOWA premiere, along with music of supreme beauty and spiritual impact. A response to the Sept. 11 attacks and a comprehensive call for peace, this cosmic, 95-minute string quartet is a whole new chapter in the age-old quest for a music of the spheres."
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/classical/cl-ca-swed22dec22.story
UI Sounds of Space and the Kronos Quartet: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/KronosSounds.html

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Ciochon Doubts Bigfoot's Existence
(Denver Post, Jan. 5)
A story about the growing support among scientists for a serious investigation into the existence of Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest says that Daris Swindler, an acclaimed expert in the arcane study of fossilized primate teeth, believes that a famous cast of a large footprint is a genuine record of a hairy giant that sat down by a mudhole to eat some fruit. "Daris said that?" asked RUSSELL CIOCHON, a prominent paleoanthropologist and professor at the University of Iowa. "He's an important figure. But I still don't think Bigfoot
exists in any form."
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1089877%257E,00.html
UI Museum of Natural History: http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/Site/temporaryexhibits.html

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Arterial Health Studied
(New York Times, Jan. 7)
Fish, vitamin C and a drug used to treat gout all helped to improve arterial function, according to two studies released by the journal Circulation. The studies, conducted separately, involved smokers, not because the researchers were looking to make smoking safer, but because smokers show very clear reductions in the ability of blood vessels to change their size in response to changes in blood pressure, a measure of cardiac health called endothelial function. The studies were conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. The UI study looked at a drug used to treat gout, called allopurinol, which suppresses an enzyme that contributes to the production of free radicals, chemicals known to damage the circulatory system. Before treatment, the blood vessels of the smokers being studied were less responsive to a change in pressure than those of nonsmokers used as a comparison group.

A story about the Irish study and noting the UI study appears in the website of Irish television station UTV at
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=27410, a British website FEMAIL
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=154044&in_page_id=2,
the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2632187.stm, and the TIMES OF LONDON.
UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

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Presidential Salaries Soar
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 9)
Million-dollar-plus salaries for college football coaches are punching holes in athletic budgets nationwide, and now similar market forces may push the salary of the University of Washington's next president to new heights. With many presidential searches underway and a spate of recent hires at major universities across the nation — as well as skyrocketing salaries for some private college presidents — UW officials may have to pony up half a million dollars or more to get the best person for the job, observers say. Rutgers University in New Jersey hired away UW's President Richard McCormick for an annual salary of $525,000 late last year, after spending nearly $279,000 in the search. Rutgers' last president made $362,000 a year — $75,000 of which came from private money. The University of Michigan's new president, Mary Sue Coleman, left the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA last year for a salary of more than $650,000, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a major trade publication. And, while Indiana University and the University of Minnesota are among those still looking for new presidents, the University of Iowa's search ended this month when it hired an internal candidate for about $281,000 a year, according to the school's Web site.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/103381_president09.shtml

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FEATURES

University Highlights Its Outreach Function
Outreach has become a buzzword on campus recently, but it's not a new concept. Making faculty and staff resources available to people throughout the state is an inherent part of the University, as it has been for years.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues2002_v40/12062002/outreach.html

Fans Follow Hawkeyes to Miami
The Hawks may not have won the game, but their fans showed up in record numbers. The UI Alumni Association offers a peek at the first set of pictures available from the UIAA Miami tour.
http://www.iowalum.com/AthleticTours/Miami.html

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