Kiplinger's Ranks UI Among Top 50 Public Universities For Value Education

The University of Iowa is among the top 50 public universities in the country when it comes to offering academic excellence at an affordable price, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's 2006 ranking of the 100 "Best Values in Public Colleges." The ranking, which appears in the February issue of the magazine, placed the UI 47th in the country based on in-state tuition. Read More >>
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Tippie Beijing MBA Program Builds Iowa-China Ties
 
The University of Iowa recently graduated its first class of students from the Tippie MBA Program in Beijing, building China's agribusiness industry and strengthening ties between Iowa and the world's fastest growing economy. On top of that, the program has offered Iowa business scholars the unique opportunity to witness firsthand the evolution of an agrarian economy into a modern, post-industrial economy. Read More >>
Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

UI Web Project Seeks Submissions From Iowa Writers
 
Iowa writers of all ages and experience levels are invited to submit short works for possible Web publication, as the University of Iowa's popular Daily Palette site expands to feature art forms in addition to visual arts. The expansion is made possible through a Year of Public Engagement grant to The Iowa Review, a literary journal at the UI. Read More >>
The Daily Palette: http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/YAH-DP/12082005.html
The Iowa Review: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/current_issue.html

Skorton Participates In University Presidents Education Summit
 
University of Iowa President David Skorton joined college and university presidents from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico Jan. 5-6 at the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education in Washington D.C. Co-hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, the summit focused on how to attract more foreign students and scholars to the United States, and related issues. President George W. Bush addressed the meeting on Thursday, Jan 5. Read More >>

UI Researchers Discover Star Orbiting A 'Medium-Sized' Black Hole
 
University of Iowa researchers have found a star orbiting a "medium-sized" black hole -- about 1,000 times more massive than the sun -- in the nearby starburst galaxy M82, a development that may help explain how medium-sized black holes form and evolve, according to a paper published in the Jan. 5 issue of Science Express, the online version of the journal Science.
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
Department of Physics and Astronomy: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/

Glucose Control Cuts Risk Of Heart Disease In Type 1 Diabetes
 
Intensive glucose control lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke by about 50 percent in people with type 1 diabetes, researchers report in the Dec. 22, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The University of Iowa was among 28 centers nationwide that participated in the study. Read More >>
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/InternalMedicine/Default.htm

UI Researchers To Examine Health Of Iowa Munitions Workers
 
Researchers in the University of Iowa College of Public Health are beginning a new comprehensive health study to determine whether conventional weapons workers at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAAP) near Burlington have elevated rates of death or adverse health effects such as cancer compared to other workers. Read More >>
College of Public Health: hhttp://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/oeh/

Nursing Dean Dreher Leaving UI
 
Melanie C. Dreher, the Kelting Dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing, has announced her resignation from the college after nine years to accept the deanship at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. Dreher's resignation will take effect May 31. Read More >>
College of Nursing: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/

Pianist Hong Completes UI Residency With Hancher-Sponsored Concert
 
Alpin Hong, the charismatic young pianist whose impact has been compared to "Beatlemania," will complete a University of Iowa residency with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 in Clapp Recital Hall on the University of Iowa campus. Read More >>
Hancher: http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/
School of Music: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/

Black: Gulf War Syndrome Persists After 10 Years
(Kansas City Star, Jan. 3)
 
More than a decade after the Gulf War, veterans deployed to that war are still more likely to suffer from health problems. Researchers found that more than 28 percent of deployed Gulf War veterans suffered from a complex of unexplained symptoms called chronic multisymptom illness, or CMI, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. That figure compares with almost 16 percent of nondeployed veterans with similar symptoms. The results of the study appear this month in the American Journal of Epidemiology. "It's a good news-bad news story," said Dr. DONALD W. BLACK, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. "The good news is that fewer veterans report symptoms at 10 years (after the war). The bad news is that for many veterans the symptoms persist." The same story appeared on the Web site of the SPRINGFIELD ( Mo.) TIMES LEADER and ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH. Read More >>
Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

Ross: Check Expiration Dates On Drugs
(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Jan. 3)
 
If you'd never open your refrigerator and pop the top on the milk jug -- two weeks past its expiration date -- and chug it down, then why would you open your medicine cabinet and pop a pill that's two months -- worse yet, two years -- past its expiration date? MARY ROSS, pharmacy supervisor at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, poses that not-so-rhetorical question to make a point: People tend to take the expiration dates on their food products much more seriously than expiration dates on their prescription and over-the-counter drugs. "But, over time, the chemical makeup and potency of medications changes," Ross said. "Taking outdated medications may also mean you are taking a pill that is not going to help you. Many medications become ineffective past their expiration date. Heat, cold and moisture can also affect a medication's potency." The same story appeared on the Web site of the MONTEREY COUNTY ( Calif.) HERALD, FT. WAYNE (IND.) NEWS-SENTINEL and ARIZONA REPUBLIC. Read More >>
UI Hospitals & Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/

Stem Cell Production Company Started At UI
(St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jan. 10)
 
An eastern Iowa company has acquired a robotic machine designed to isolate stem cells from umbilical cord blood or adult blood that scientists said will provide endless research opportunities. Cellular Engineering Technologies Inc. bought the $50,000 Robosep machines on Dec. 29 and ran initial tests the same day. CET, founded in 2000 by its president and chief executive officer, Dr. Alan Moy, operated through the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA until July 2005. It then became an independent company and moved to Coralville, Iowa. The Ledger is based in Illinois. The same story appeared on the Web sites of the NEW YORK TIMES, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE, WASHINGTON POST, NEWSDAY, CBSNEWS.com, BUSINESSWEEK, FORBES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE, BILOXI SUN (Miss.) HERALD, GRAND FORKS (N.D.) HERALD, SAN JOSE (Calif.) MERCURY NEWS, COLUMBUS (Ga.) ENQUIRER, BRADENTON (Fla.) HERALD, FORT WAYNE (Ind.) NEWS SENTINEL, PORTERSVILLE (Calif.) RECORD, DURANT (Okla.) DAILY DEMOCRAT, MEXICO (Mo.) LEDGER, CARTHAGE (Mo.) PRESS and BOONVILLE (Mo.) DAILY NEWS, and numerous other news organizations. Read More >>
Technology Transfer at UI: http://research.uiowa.edu/techtransfer/

Sayre Comments On Frey Book
(Sydney Morning Herald, Jan. 13)
 
The Smoking Gun website reported some significant discrepancies in James Frey's memoir about addiction, "A Million Little Pieces." He has joined a line of memoir writers that stretches back through American history to one of its founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's autobiography, says Professor ROBERT SAYRE, omitted any reference to his children born out of wedlock. Further, "it certainly includes false or excessive representations, and omissions, if not fabrications." Sayre, professor of English at the University of Iowa, says there was a common thread that he could follow from "A Million Little Pieces" that wound its way deep into the American character. "There's so much emphasis in our culture on redemption," Sayre says. "We've always had lots of autobiographies about people's conversions. It strikes a big chord. It's a long historic theme in American culture. There's nothing that can pluck the heart strings like the story of a sinner redeemed." The newspaper is based in Australia. Read More >>
Department of English: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/

Eight is Enough
Iowa City man gives $1 million in scholarships for eight UI sports. Read More >>

Inside the Situation Room
A judge and former adviser to President Bill Clinton convinces UI students that national security isn't just for politicians. Read More >>

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