VISIT
UI AT THE STATE FAIR
“Iowa:
Your University” is the theme for the University of Iowa's
booth at the 2003 Iowa State Fair, which runs Aug. 7-17 in Des
Moines. The booth, which will be located in the southwest corner
of the
Varied Industries Building, will feature former Hawkeye student-athletes,
sports personalities, Herky and the UI cheerleaders, a fossil
hunt, calligraphy, demonstration and dozens of other exciting
interactive activities. And, for the first time, visitors to the
booth can
enter
daily drawings for tickets to Hawkeye and Hancher events, autographed
sports merchandise, and other great prizes. For more information
about this year's presence at the Iowa State Fair, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/statefair
UI
Professor Says Creative People Recall Dreams
People
who are creative, imaginative, and prone to fantasy are more likely to
have
vivid dreams at night and to remember them when they
wake up, University of Iowa research shows. David Watson, a professor
of psychology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
said that the more bizarre a dream was the more likely his subjects were
to remember it. Dream recall varied widely, with a few participants
remembering a dream every night and others never remembering a
dream
throughout the three-month study. On average, participants recalled
dreams three or four days per week. More»
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
Library
Holds Thousands Of Works By Iowa Authors
When Mark
Moscowitz started work on his movie “Stone Reader,” about
Cedar Rapids author Dow Mossman's book "Stones of Summer," one
of his stops was the UI Libraries' Iowa Authors Collection. Started
in 1945, the Iowa Authors Collection is among the oldest in the
library's special collections holdings. It now has 20,000 titles
written by
2,000 authors, making it likely the largest collection of Iowa-related
authors anywhere, as well as the papers of about 100 of them, including
Mossman. More»
UI Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/
UI Libraries Special Collections: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/
UI
Engineers Create Laboratory Model Of California Lake
University
of Iowa College of Engineering researchers have created the first
model of its kind that successfully imitates the behavior of a large,
thermally layered reservoir or lake. More»
College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/
College of Engineering Research: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/research/
UI
Junior Grant Schulte Named A “Top Ten” College Journalist
Grant Schulte, a junior in the University of Iowa College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, has been selected as one of the top 10 journalism
students in the country. Schulte was one of 10 journalism students
from across the United States to receive a $10,000 scholarship in
the Scripps Howard Foundation's annual "Top Ten" scholarship
program for college journalists. More»
School of Journalism and Mass Communications: http://www.uiowa.edu/~journal/
UI
Study Finds Salt-Taste Genes
Saltiness
often enhances our enjoyment of certain foods - think French fries
or a margarita. But salt is an essential
nutrient for humans and other animals,
and far from being a trivial matter of taste, the ability to detect
salt is critical for survival. A new University of Iowa study provides
insight
on how humans and other animals are able to detect salt. The study appears
in the July 3 issue of Neuron. More»
Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/
Department of Physiology and Biophysics: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/internalmedicine/index.html
Day
Care Centers Could Do More To Reduce Medication Risks
Preschoolers
who need to take medications while at day care centers in Iowa generally
are getting the right drugs on schedule, but more could be done
to reduce the risk of medication errors, according to a University of Iowa
study published in the May/June issue of the Journal of the American Pharmacists
Association. More»
Department of Family Medicine: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/familymedicine/
College of Pharmacy: http://pharmacy.uiowa.edu/
UI
Uses Advanced Technology To Treat Cervical, Endometrial Cancer
Cancer
specialists at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are using advanced
technology to provide an important new treatment option for women
diagnosed with cancer of the cervix or endometrium. More»
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cancercenter/index.html
UI Health Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/index.html
UI
Dermatologist Offers Sunscreen Tips
Local discount and grocery store aisles are stocked with sun protection
for kids, for faces, for lifeguards, for just about everyone. What kind
of sunscreen can offer the best protection for your skin? Here are a few
helpful hints for protecting your skin this summer. More»
Department of Dermatology: http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/home.html
Eberle
Wins Fellowship Award From The Voice Foundation
Katherine
Eberle, a member of the voice faculty at the University of Iowa School
of Music,
received the 13th Annual Van Lawrence Fellowship Award
from the Voice Foundation in Philadelphia June 5, during the foundation's
32nd Annual Symposium, “Care of the Professional Voice.” More»
School of Music: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/
UI's
Martinet Receives Lifetime Achievement Award In Ballet Education
Francoise
Martinet, emeritus faculty member of the University of Iowa dance department,
is the 2003 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Corps
de Ballet International, the global professional organization of ballet
teachers in higher education. Martinet will accept the award at a June
25 reception during the organization's International Conference in New
York
City. More»
Department of Dance: http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/
UI
Professor Builds Small Homes
(Chicago Tribune, June 28)
JAY SHAFER,
owner of Tumbleweed Tiny House Co., recently made his first sale — a tiny house he designed and built, now awaiting pick-up at Quality
Storage in Coralville, Iowa. The house, much like the one in Iowa City,
Iowa, that he lives in, is about the size of a one-car garage, but big
on character. “A lot of the money spent on quantity can be spent on quality
instead,” he said. The tiny house Shafer lives in is 130 square feet
small. The house has air conditioning and a propane-fueled heater and stove.
He sleeps in a loft upstairs, equipped with a television and VCR, but no
cable. “I live by what I think is necessary to my comfortable survival,
not my bare-bones survival,” said Shafer, an assistant adjunct art
professor at the University of Iowa. His 3-year-old house sits in the
backyard of his larger residence near Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City. More»
School of Art & Art History: http://www.uiowa.edu/~art/
Gruca
Comments On Box Office Expectations
(CNN Money, June 24)
The Movie “The Hulk” was not the box office smash many expected.
The week before the movie opened the Hollywood Stock Exchange, where players
trade (using play money) domestic box office expectations, “The Hulk” went
for as much as $202.45, meaning the market expected it to bring in $202.45
million in its first four weeks. According to University of Iowa business
school professor TOM GRUCA, Hollywood Stock Exchange traders tend to be
off on their box office bets by about 60 percent. Nor are private forecasters
any more reliable “There are just so many things that can affect how
a movie does,” said Gruca. “Everything from the weather to who
is in the NBA finals on a Friday night can make a movie go in the tank.” He
added that forecasting movies isn't going to get any easier. “Everybody
is competing for the same core audience,” he said. “That's
making it harder and harder to do the forecasting.” More»
Henry B. Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/
Squire
Comments On Grassley
(U.S. News & World Report, June 23)
A
profile of U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and chairman of
the Senate
Finance Committee, says that the image of the man off the prairie endures. "He
is an interesting character because even after all this time in Washington,
he has managed to continue to portray himself as a pig farmer from Butler
County," says PEVERILL SQUIRE, a professor of political science at
the University of Iowa. “I don't know that he does it intentionally,
but it does work to his advantage.” More»
Department of Political Science: http://www.uiowa.edu/~polisci/
10th
Anniversary Brings A Flood Of Memories
The summer of 1993 was a wet and tiring mess. Sandbags, traffic jams, water-filled basements, soaked offices, lots of rain, and muggy weather to boot. For sure, what has been billed as the Great Flood of '93 wasn't so great. Ten years later, several employees reflect on the crisis with relief. More»
Biomass
for the Masses: Innovative Oat-Hull Project Energizes Campus
Luck, location, and a little old-fashioned ingenuity have the University standing at the forefront of the state's--and possibly the nation's--renewable energy efforts. Since early January, the UI Power Plant has been adding oat hulls to the coal it normally burns to produce energy, lowering the University's energy costs and reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere. More»
Course
Stirs Students To Appreciate Surroundings
A new UI course has the lofty hope of challenging students to be awake in their own lives and aware of their surroundings. For anyone who has ever gone through a day on autopilot, “Storytelling and Urban Engagement” has a lesson to teach about opening your eyes and seeing where you are. More»
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