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UI Children's Hospital ranks in nation's Top 25
University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, ranks among the best children's hospitals in the U.S., according to a survey conducted by Parents magazine. Parents surveyed more than 100 children's hospitals to determine where the more than 3 million American children hospitalized each year can get the best care possible. The results of the extensive survey are in the February 2009 issue of Parents magazine. More>>
Children’s Hospital: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/uichildrenshospital/index.html
Study shows need for standardizing nursing home social workers' credentials
Social workers play a vital role in improving the quality of nursing home residents' lives. But qualifications of nursing home social workers vary wildly in part because of low federal standards and inconsistent state laws, the first national study on nursing home social workers reveals. More>>
School of Social Work: http://www.uiowa.edu/~socialwk/
UI researchers go to the ends of the Earth for January studies
Three UI researchers in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy have gone to the opposite -- and very cold -- ends of the Earth to conduct research in January. Don Kirchner, research engineer, and William Robison, engineer III, are at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, while Scott Bounds, associate research scientist, is at Poker Flat Research Range, just north of Fairbanks, Alaska. More>>
Department of Physics and Astronomy: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/
Libraries specialists help area museums with flood restoration work
The Preservation Department at University of Iowa Libraries is helping three area museums recover after floodwaters damaged their collections. Items ranging from books and LPs to handmade baskets and antique muskets are being stored and worked on in various rooms throughout the Main Library and the University of Iowa Research Park in Coralville. More>>
Related: UI South Korean alumni donate to flood recovery during trip
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Preservation Department: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/
Students may qualify for double tax credit because of flood
Students attending the University of Iowa and other colleges or universities located in states included in the Midwest Disaster Area as defined by the IRS may now qualify for a doubling of an education tax credit when filing federal tax returns for calendar 2008. More>>
Sex difference on spatial skill test linked to brain structure
Men consistently outperform women on spatial tasks, including mental rotation, which is the ability to identify how a 3-D object would appear if rotated in space. Now, a University of Iowa study shows a connection between this sex-linked ability and the structure of the parietal lobe, the brain region that controls this type of skill. More>>
Related: UI brain researchers win major neuroscience award
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Graduate Program in Neuroscience: http://neuroscience.grad.uiowa.edu/
Three UI faculty members named AAAS Fellows
Three faculty members from the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine each have been awarded the distinction of 2008 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Those honored are: Garry Buettner, Paul Rothman and Marc S. Wold. More>>
Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/CCOM/index.html
Radon expert urges testing during National Radon Action Month
January is National Radon Action Month, which serves as a good reminder for homeowners to test for radon, according to a University of Iowa expert in radon research. More>>
College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
UI doctoral student publishes book on creating balance in life
This time of year, people are more likely to feel stressed out with school, work and last-minute holiday shopping woes, especially with the current economic recession. Jay M. Greenfeld, a doctoral student in the University of Iowa College of Education's Counseling Psychology Program, believes that individuals have a choice in how they respond to difficult situations. To help them, he wrote a self-help book titled, "My Choice -- My Life: Realizing Your Ability to Create Balance in Life." More>>
Related: Numerous UI authors made Times holiday 'Notable Books' list
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Counseling Psychology Program: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/counspsy/
Arabic writer-without-borders had productive time in the state of 'YES!'
Arabic-language writer Tarek Eltayeb knew nothing about Iowa before he came to the University of Iowa this fall as a participant in the International Writing Program. But he knew the meaning of the word that sounds the same in Arabic -- an emphatic "YES!" And by the time he returned to his home in Austria, he'd definitely had a positive experience, writing 50 poems and beginning a novel. And he had spent more time in this state of Yes! than he had spent in Sudan, the ancestral homeland with which he strongly identifies. More>>
International Writing Program: http://iwp.uiowa.edu/index.html
Former Hawkeye Caldwell named Colts head coach
Jim Caldwell, a four-year letterwinner for the University of Iowa football team in the late 1970s, joined an exclusive fraternity later Jan. 13 when he was named head coach of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts. Caldwell, a four-year starter at defensive back for Iowa in the mid-1970s, was the associate head coach of the Colts. He is filling the void created by the retirement of current Colt head coach Tony Dungy. More>>
Related. Iowa football back in the top 20
By winning four consecutive games and six of its final seven, the University of Iowa football team cracked both top 20 polls released Jan. 9. The Hawkeyes finished the season 9-4 overall, 5-3 in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa was the lone Big Ten team to win a bowl game this season -- 31-10 over South Carolina in the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1. More>>
Alumni Association Outback Bowl slideshow: http://tinyurl.com/7ukkjg
Big Ten Network to air 'Iowa Magazine: Vitality' in February
The next edition of the University of Iowa's Big Ten Network series "Iowa Magazine" will feature stories on the Iowa Electronic Markets; the Maia Quartet celebrates 10 years at Iowa; Informatics at Iowa; and the future of flight training at the Operator Performance Lab. More>>
Iowa Electronic Markets: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
Porter comments on impact of bankruptcy filing
(Wall Street Journal, Jan. 9)
Filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, under which debtors can work out a plan to reduce some debts and pay back creditors over three to five years, is a painful and potentially costly option for homeowners. The proceedings can cost borrowers about $4,000, according to KATHERINE PORTER, a University of Iowa law professor, and result in a blot on personal credit reports for seven to 10 years. Porter made the comments in an article about a Senate bill aimed at giving strapped homeowners more leverage in renegotiating their mortgages. More>>
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
Canady comments on face transplant surgery
(CNN.com, Dec. 17)
The recent face transplant surgery by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland, Ohio hospital, was the first of its kind conducted in the United States. In the surgery, 80 percent of the female trauma patient's face was transplanted. The transplant recipient has to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his or her life to prevent rejection of the donated tissue. "Once you start suppressing immune systems so they don't reject composite tissue, you suppress the immune system from fighting off infections," said DR. JOHN CANADY, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and professor of plastic surgery at the University of Iowa. "It's a delicate balance to reach in terms of keeping the transplant not rejected and still not having patients get into other problems." More>>
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/otolaryngology/index.html
Gordon to help define wisdom
(RedOrbit, Dec. 16)
A four-year initiative called Defining Wisdom at the University of Chicago -- supported by the Templeton Foundation -- hopes to answer the question through the help of 23 scholars. Among the scholars is JEAN GORDON of the University of Iowa, a communications scientist who has done a lot of work in the past on aphasia. She plans to use the Templeton money to study how our perception of wisdom varies with how others use language and how that relates to age. She will test 48 subjects using a variety of language measures. She wants to discover if wisdom is in the ear, or really, the mind, of the beholder. "People's perceptions are very tied up in speakers' competence with language. It's the way that we maintain social connections and maintain our identity," Gordon said. More>>
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders: http://www.uiowa.edu/~comsci
Budd studies coral in Atlantic, Pacific
(St. Maarten Time, Dec. 9)
The discovery of two species of coral once thought to be extinct provide an important link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, U.S. scientists said. The U.S. scientists, ANN BUDD from the University of Iowa and Donald McNeill of the University of Miami and Carden Wallace of the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Australia, sampled 67 locations around Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, and found the Isopora ginsburgi and Isopora curacaoensis. "We now know that Isopora last occurred in the region during the late Pliocene, a million years ago as part of a pulse of extinction, in which several genera that live today in the Indo-Pacific became extinct in the Caribbean," said Budd. "This research has further illuminated that these corals co-occurred with the two abundant modern Caribbean species often living side-by-side with the two newly evolved common Caribbean reef corals." More>>
Department of Geoscience: http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/
House of cards (from Iowa Alumni Magazine)
Dreams of a better life through home ownership have morphed into nightmares for millions of Americans, victims of greed, gullibility, and the failures of our financial system. How did we get into this mess, and—more importantly—where do we go from here? More>>
Remarkable People: Wangui Gathua
Wangui Gathua gets emotionally involved. It’s in her nature. Whether at home in Kenya, or studying abroad in the United States, she empathizes with those in need, and has a passion for doing whatever she can to make their lives a little better. It was that passion that brought her to Iowa. A teacher-turned-counselor at a girls’ school outside of Nairobi, Gathua found herself getting caught up in her students’ lives. They came to her with issues like pregnancy and financial problems that threatened to force them to drop out of school. More>>
'24' character Kanin named after Writers' Workshop’s Ethan Canin
Ethan Canin is a busy guy. Acclaimed author. Faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. White House Chief of Staff on "24." Well, at least his namesake is. Ethan Kanin is the White House Chief of Staff on the new season of FOX's allegedly real-time, action-adventure, white-knuckle-to-save-the-world series that had its season premiere Jan. 11. Canin, the UI faculty member, said that the character is, indeed, named after him. More>>
Diorama Panorama: Photographs from the UI’s Mammal Hall
(from fyi)
See photographs featuring some of the displays in the UI Museum of Natural History's Mammal Hall, including several panoramic shots. More>>
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