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UI earns 'Best Buy' designation in new Fiske Guide
In the face of today's rising tuition rates, students and families in all economic circumstances are looking for ways to get the best value for their education. The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010 has supplied one answer, naming the University of Iowa one of its 44 "Best Buy" universities. More >>
University of Iowa Admissions: http://www.uiowa.edu/admissions/index.html
Archaeologists share artifacts while cycling across the state with RAGBRAI
The Carlisle Clovis cache in Warren County dates to the end of the last Ice Age -- 11,000 years ago -- and represents the oldest excavated, intact archeological site in Iowa. It is also the site of the recovery of 38 unfinished stone tools possibly created to supply early hunters with material for spear points and butchery tools in a part of the state where good stone was hard to come by. To allow the public to view this collection, the University of Iowa Office of the State Archeologist will exhibit these tools in Milo, Iowa, on the third day of RAGBRAI 2009 as part of "Archaeology on the Road." More >>
Related: UI anthropologist: fossil may be from mystery ape, rather than early human
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/061709ciochon-fossil.html
Office of the State Archaeologist: http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/
Political scientists engage Chicago teens in polling project
Officials in Washington, Iowa, want to know what residents think the town's priorities should be. A University of Iowa outreach project will deliver the answers while teaching 28 high school students from Chicago a lot about polling, public policy and the value of higher education. More >>
Department of Political Science: http://www.polisci.uiowa.edu/
Entrepreneurial contest winner to start green business
University of Iowa senior Brandon Yoder is embracing Iowa's statewide green initiatives, hoping to create jobs for people in a troubled economy and help people live more sustainably through a company he plans to start in August, Green Transitions, Inc. More >>
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center: http://enterprise.uiowa.edu/jpec.php
UITV broadcasts flood commemoration on Web
The University of Iowa’s one-year flood commemoration, which took place June 15 at the Old Capitol Museum, may now be viewed online. The commemoration, whose theme was , “Remember, Reimagine, Rebuild,” featured remarks by UI President Sally Mason; Lt. Gen. Ron Dardis, adjutant general for the Iowa National Guard during last year's flood; U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack; and Eric Rossow, a 2009 graduate of the university who helped with sandbagging efforts during the flood; and others. More >>
UI Television: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/tns/videoservices/uitv.htm
UI nets $3.6 million grant for glaucoma research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, nearly $3.6 million grant to University of Iowa researchers who seek to understand the genes and disease processes involved in glaucoma, which is the second leading cause of irreversible blindness in the United States and the leading cause among African-Americans. The grant was effective July 1. More >>
UI Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/CCOM/
Schizophrenia research at UI receives $1.6 million NIH grant
University of Iowa research that aims to help improve treatments for schizophrenia has been funded by a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health. More >>
UI Hospitals and Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/index.html
Increased household endotoxin associated with poverty, people, pets
People with asthma often pay close attention to potential allergens lurking outdoors, but University of Iowa research shows they also may want to be wary of dust indoors that can contain endotoxin, a potent inflammatory agent that is a component of many types of bacteria. More >>
UI College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' selected for One Community, One Book
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is the 2009 selection for "One Community, One Book." The project promotes insights on human rights in the United States and across the globe and is coordinated by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR) in conjunction with other sponsoring organizations from Johnson County and the UI. More >>
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights: http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/human-rights/default.asp
'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars' pieces part of UI Libraries sci-fi fanzine acquisition
The University of Iowa Libraries has announced the acquisition of the Mariellen (Ming) Wathne Fanzine Archive Collection. This large collection of some 3,000 science fiction fanzines is an important accumulation of fan-created work and a significant addition to the fanzine holdings of the University Libraries. More >>
University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/
Single-game tickets for six football games now on sale
The UI Athletics Ticket Office began accepting orders for single-game tickets for six of the seven home games of the nationally ranked 2009 University of Iowa football team on July 6. More >>
University of Iowa Athletics Ticket Office: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/tickets/iowa-tickets.html
UI places 45th in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup
The University of Iowa has scored a school-record number of points in the annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup, a national program that honors institutions offering broad-based intercollegiate athletics programs that achieve at the highest level competitively, the UI Athletics Department announced today. More >>
UI Athletics Department: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/
Johnson throws out first pitch at Royals game
University of Iowa incoming freshman Morgan Johnson was recently honored by the Kansas City Royals after being named the Kansas City Star Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Johnson, a native of Platte City, Mo., threw out the first pitch before the Royals took on the Minnesota Twins June 30. More >>
UI Hawkeye Women’s Basketball: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/iowa-w-baskbl-body.html
UI tests road tax concept
(Kansas City Star, July 1)
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove - tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center. What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted. The UI, with the help of a $16 million federal grant, is beginning the field test that will eventually include 2,700 vehicles in six states. The vehicles equipped with computers and GPS devices will keep track of the miles traveled and send the data through wireless technology to a billing center that will compute "simulated" tax bills. More >>
Public Policy Center: http://ppc.uiowa.edu/dnn4/TransportationbrPolicyResearch
/RoadUserChargeStudy/tabid/65/Default.aspx
Kaaret comments on a new possible black hole type
(National Geographic, July 1)
An extraordinarily bright object in a galaxy 290 million light-years away could be a new type of black hole. Right now astronomers are confident that two types of black holes are out there. Smaller, so-called stellar-mass black holes are created by dying stars and only reach 20 to 30 times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes thought to sit at the centers of most galaxies, meanwhile, clock in at millions to billions of solar masses. "There's a big gap in between where we just don't know if nature makes black holes that weigh that much," said PHILIP KAARET, an astrophysicist at the University of Iowa, who was not part of the study team. More >>
Department of Physics and Astronomy: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/
Hildebrand comments on male birth control
(South Jersey Courier Post, June 29)
Researchers at the University of Iowa say they've stumbled on a genetic twist that could lead to a birth control pill for men. The discovery involves an inherited disorder that made sperm unable to swim forcefully. "They could still move, but they need this special, fast motion to actually penetrate the egg, and that would be limited," said Dr. MICHAEL HILDEBRAND, an Iowa researcher who helped lead the study. Hildebrand believes doctors could induce the disorder in men, making them incapable of impregnating women. The Courier Post is published in Cherry Hill, N.J. More >>
Former UI player remembers high school coach, mentor
(Denver Post, June 25)
Casey Wiegmann, the Denver Broncos' Pro Bowl center, considered his high school football coach Ed Thomas a mentor and someone who taught him what was important, such as taking care of loved ones and being a valued member of the community. Now, Wiegmann finds himself without that adviser after Thomas was shot and killed by a former player. Wiegmann graduated from Aplington-Parkersburg High School in 1991. Although his performance on the field in the town of 1,800 people helped him play for the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and then in the NFL, Wiegmann remembers his time spent with Thomas as about more than just the game. "You're not just learning football stuff from the man," Wiegmann said. "You're learning about life." More >>
University of Iowa Hawkeye football: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/iowa-m-footbl-body.html
'Iowa Insights' podcast: Sustainability, 'do-overs' and wind power innovation
The July 1, 2009 edition of "Iowa Insights" features interviews with Liz Christiansen, director of the UI Office of Sustainability, about Iowa's conservation efforts and sustainability in the classroom; Nonfiction Writing Program Director Robin Hemley about his book "Do-Over!" which chronicles his present-day re-creations of humiliating experiences from his childhood; and College of Engineering Dean Barry Butler about the college's leadership in the Iowa Alliance for Wind Innovation and Novel Development, or IAWIND. More>>
Researchers, staff rise to grant proposal challenge (fyi)
The university and surrounding communities recently marked the flood of ’08. But fewer folks know about the flood of ’09, a moniker jokingly applied by the staff of the Office of the Vice President for Research to a veritable inundation by grants. More >>
Vice President for Research: http://research.uiowa.edu/
Science in Motion: virtual human takes risks so real people don’t have to (Iowa Alumni Magazine)
The armored Humvee sprawls upside down, wheels spinning and vulnerable to enemy attack. Inside, a soldier struggles to escape, but his armored vest and weapon holster snag, trapping him and putting his life at risk. Fortunately, the soldier isn’t real. He’s Santos, a digital human created by University of Iowa engineers and researchers at the Virtual Soldier Research lab to carry out realistic missions in a simulated computer environment. More >>
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