Join Us At The Iowa State Fair Aug. 12 to 22!

The Iowa State Fair, one of the most popular summer attractions in the nation with last year’s attendance topping 1 million, offers University of Iowa alumni a chance to reconnect with the black and gold. From our booth in the southwest corner of the air-conditioned Varied Industries Building we’ll give away tens of thousands of athletic posters, schedule cards, and Hawkeye tattoos. Also, we’ll have daily drawings for football and basketball tickets, as well as tickets for Hancher Auditorium productions and other coveted tokens, such as alumni T-shirts, pen-and-pencil sets, and calculators. Meet some of our most popular luminaries: President David Skorton, Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby, Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Bluder, and a host of Hawkeye legends from years past, including star football and basketball alumni and popular Hawkeye broadcasters. The booth also will feature interactive displays from many of our outstanding academic departments, a large exhibit from University Hospitals and Clinics, the Hawk Shop full of the hottest Hawkeye apparel, and athletic trophies, like Floyd of Rosedale. Don’t miss the fun from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. More>>

UI Revises Guidelines Governing Campus Visits By Prospective Student-Athletes

Revised and updated guidelines governing on-campus recruiting visits by prospective student-athletes have been approved by University of Iowa President David Skorton and will be implemented immediately. The guidelines prohibit underage drinking and sexual harassment; they note that recruits under the age of 19 are not allowed in bars after 10 p.m.; they require that entertainment of recruits be confined to the Iowa City-Coralville area, and they require that the recruits be escorted to their overnight accommodations no later than 12:30 a.m., unless they are participating in activities supervised or arranged by UI coaching staff. More>>

Saturn Welcomes Cassini Spacecraft As Exploration Begins

Although the Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to officially arrive at the planet Saturn on June 30, scientists studying the planet's magnetosphere received an official welcome on June 27 when a burst of plasma wave noise indicated that Cassini had crossed the planet's bow shock — the region where charged particles flowing outward from the sun collide with Saturn's magnetic field or magnetosphere. Scientists studying the rotational modulation of radio emissions from Saturn with the Cassini spacecraft are puzzled by apparent long-term variations in the radio rotational period of Saturn. University of Iowa Space Physicist Don Gurnett, head of the team that is analyzing the radio emissions, finds that the rotation period of the radio emissions — often viewed as the rotation period of the planet -- has increased by six minutes since it was measured in the early 1980s. More>>
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/june/062804saturn-rotation.html
Cassini Encounters Saturn's Bow Shock: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cassini/bow-shock/

UI Year Of The Arts And Humanities To Celebrate Culture Statewide

Beginning July 1, the University of Iowa Year of the Arts and Humanities will celebrate the rich cultural tradition of the arts and humanities at the university and throughout Iowa and forge cultural linkages between the academic community and communities around the state. The celebration begins quietly this summer before moving into full gear with a kick-off festival in September and dozens of events, programs, and performances throughout the academic year. One highlight will be the Oct. 6 campus visit and public lecture by Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. More>>
Year of Arts and Humanities: http://www.yah.uiowa.edu/

Iowa Electronic Markets Trade In Presidential Futures

Who will be elected president in November? Traders in the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) can make their predictions with dollars invested in this real-money, web-based futures market known for its accurate predictions of election outcomes. The IEM has opened its "winner-takes-all" market where contracts for the candidate with the largest share of the popular vote pay $1, while contracts for the losing candidate pay nothing. Operated as a research and teaching tool by six professors at the University of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the IEM political markets are open to the public. More>>
Iowa Electronic Markets: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

UI Surgeons Announce First Repair Of Mitral Valve With Robot

Nancy Ryan of Madrid, Iowa, wasn't motivated by the chance to be in a select group of medical pioneers. She just wanted to feel better.
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UI Cardiothoracic Surgery: http://aboutplastic.surgery.uiowa.edu/htmpages/cardiothoracic.htm

UI Hospitals And Clinics Specialties Rank Among The Best

For the 15th year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranks multiple specialties at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics among the best in the nation.
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UI Hospitals and Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/uihospitalsandclinics/index.html

UI Team Receives $5.7 Million Grant To Assess Reading Program

The Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education, has awarded a five-year, $5.7 million grant to University of Iowa researchers to assess the large-scale implementation of a reading curriculum in Chicago public schools. The grant was effective June 1. More>>
Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology: http://www.shc.uiowa.edu/wjshc/wjshchom.html

UI/Lakes Art Center Collaboration Wins Humanities Iowa Grant

The collaboration of the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium and the Lakes Art Center in Okoboji has attracted a $2,000 grant from Humanities Iowa for an educational event during the Iowa residency of jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. More>>
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/

Gurney's “What I Did Last Summer” Completes Iowa Summer Rep Bill

"Last Summer," A.R. Gurney's touching coming-of-age comedy, will complete the production line-up of Iowa Summer Rep when it opens at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 15, in E.C. Mabie Theatre of the University of Iowa Theatre Building. Additional performances by the UI's professional Actors Equity company will be at 8 p.m. July 16, 17, 23 and 24. More>>
Department of Theatre Arts Iowa Summer Rep 2004: http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre/production/summerrep.htm

UI Freshman Is Youngest Electoral College Member
(Chicago Sun-Times, June 17)

Kiran Patel is working at a fast-food restaurant this summer to pay for her freshman year of college, but she could have a much bigger job by winter: deciding who wears the title "President of the United States." The teenager from Cedar Rapids is one of the youngest members ever of the Electoral College, elected in April just days after her 18th birthday. In a speech at the April convention, Patel promised to use her position to help interest young people in politics and to emphasize the importance of their vote. She plans voter registration drives next fall as a student at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, where she will study microbiology and anthropology. She's also organizing one at Taco Bell, where she works the night shift. More>>

Tomkovicz Comments On Miranda Rulings
(Christian Science Monitor, June 29)

The US Supreme Court yesterday walked carefully through America's most important law designed to protect accused criminals during police interrogation. Upholding a decision by the Missouri Supreme Court, the high court ruled 5-4 that police may not under most circumstances deliberately question a suspect twice — the first time without advising suspects of their right to remain silent — in order to elicit incriminating statements. “It shows you how badly they're spilt over Miranda, what it means and how much breadth it could be given," says JAMES TOMKOVICZ of the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, who filed an amicus brief in one of the cases. "One of the more unfortunate aspects is that these badly split opinions — which were tied to the facts in the case — provide little guidance to law enforcement officers and the courts in future cases." More>>
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/

McLeod Discusses Music Downloading Debate
(Troy Record, July 1)

KEMBREW MCLEOD, an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and the author of "Owning Culture," is the author of a guest column on the debate over the downloading and sharing of copyrighted music. The newspaper is based in Troy, N.Y. This article originally appeared June 25 in the NEW YORK TIMES. More>>
Department of Communication Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/

UI: Women Less Likely To Recognize Heart Problems
(Good Housekeeping, July 6)

Iowa researchers have found women are much less likely than men to realize they have heart-related symptoms and receive worse advice on seeking medical care. The UNIVERSITY OF IOWA researchers discovered that, compared to male participants, women were much less likely to attribute their symptoms to cardiac-related causes and were less likely to receive suggestions from family and friends that they were having heart problems. Many women in the study were also more surprised to hear that their symptoms were due to a heart attack. The study consisted of 109 men and 46 women, of whom 60 percent did not realize their symptoms were due to cardiac problems, the researchers said. Many people assume the typical heart attack patient is a male, so women tend to look for other explanations for their symptoms, such as stomach problems, researchers explained. The article, picked up by United Press International, appeared on the iVillage website for women. A version of the story also ran on the website of the WASHINGTON TIMES.
UI Heart Care: http://www1.uifoundation.org/redirect?url=http://www.int-med.uiowa.edu/Divisions/Cardiology/&source=04AANWAA07

On The Trail With Lewis And Clark

While the country continues its bicentennial celebration of the Voyage of Discovery launched by President Thomas Jefferson and led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, alumna Bev Hinds tells western Iowa's part in the adventure. More>>

Over The Long Run Nice Girls Run Fast

Two alumnae—Bev Boddicker Docherty and Jenny Spangler—show that sometimes the race is against yourself. Despite kids, cold weather, and not making it to the Olympics, these two women take their running seriously. More>>
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