@IOWA - June 2004

Some of the University of Iowa's most acclaimed alumni made their way back to campus to be recognized by the UI for their accomplishments. Thirteen alumni from diverse professions received the UIAA's highest honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, at a celebratory lunch at noon Saturday, June 12 in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.More>>
Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni: http://www.iowalum.com/daa/

UI Entrepreneurship Program Receives National Recognition

The entrepreneurship program offered through the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) at the University of Iowa has received national recognition for its innovative campus-wide program. In the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, the UI is named one of the top Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities in the United States. The UI entrepreneurship program has been ranked in the top 26 schools with comprehensive entrepreneurial programs at nationally prominent colleges and universities. More>>
Entrepreneurial Center: http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/resources/listings/j/jpappajohn-entrep.html

National Report: Gifted Children Often Kept Behind

Potentially thousands of academically gifted K-12 students are being denied opportunities to take challenging coursework that might lead to careers in math, science and other important fields — even as the United States' preeminence in these areas continues to slip. In many instances obstacles are being placed in the students' paths by the very people charged with educating them to their highest potential: teachers and school administrators. That is one of the preliminary findings of a national report due out in July from the University of Iowa's Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development.

PLEASE JOIN the Belin-Blank Center and the UI Honors Program from 3 to 5 p.m. July 2 for an open house for and dedication of the new Blank Honors Center. With the new center, the UI has become one of the first universities in the nation to offer under a single roof programs, services and support for academically gifted and talented students all the way from kindergarten through college. More>>
Open House Invitation: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/june/060904honors-open-house.html
Belin–Blank Center: http://www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr/

Booklet Provides Information To Help Fix Flood Damaged Artifacts

Recent floods have wreaked havoc on many Iowan's personal possessions, but preservationists point out that many of those items can be reclaimed and don't need to be thrown away. An online guide published by the Iowa Preservation and Conservation Consortium shows homeowners how they can save items that are waterlogged, mud-caked, or otherwise damaged from floodwaters. More>>

High School Students To Attend Arabic Institute June 13-18 At UI

Sixteen gifted high school students from across Iowa and the nation will have the opportunity to study everything from the Arabic language to the religious practices of Arabic speaking people during the Foreign Language Summer Institute (FLSI) June 13-18 at the University of Iowa. The institute is a one-week residential summer program for students who are currently in ninth through 11th grades. This is a collaborative program between UI International Programs and The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. More>>
Foreign Language Summer Institute: http://www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr/programs/flsi/

UI Working To Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Meet Kyoto Protocol Emissions Goal

In an attempt to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being generated in the Midwest, the University of Iowa recently joined the Chicago Climate Exchange. Under the terms of its membership, the UI is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 4 percent by the year 2006, as compared to the baseline years of 1998-2001. Graduate students in the College of Engineering are spearheading additional efforts at the UI to reduce emissions thought to contribute to global warming. More>>
College of Engineering Students: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2004/may/052804eng-students.html
College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/

UI Team Obtains Grant To Study Potentially Useful Flaw In Tumor Metabolism

Scientists have known for decades that cancer cells consume more glucose than normal cells. A longstanding assumption that the excess glucose metabolism was needed to make energy has not been borne out by research studies. This lack of understanding of why cancer cells need increased glucose metabolism has hampered the exploitation of this difference for cancer therapy. More>>
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/cancercenter/

UI Heart Care Researchers Show Implants Cut Hospitalization, Death Rates

UI Heart Care researchers are among the first in the nation to evaluate the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices to reduce the risk of mortality and hospitalization in advanced heart failure patients. More>>
Hospitals and Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/uihospitalsandclinics/index.html

UI Muscular Dystrophy Discovery May Lead To New Treatment Approaches

Expressing high levels of a sugar-adding protein known as LARGE in mice that lack the protein can prevent muscular dystrophy in these animals, according to studies by researchers at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Furthermore, the research suggests that LARGE protein also can restore normal function to a critical muscle protein that is disrupted by glycosylation (sugar-adding) defects in several different human muscular dystrophies. More>>
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

UI Museum Of Art Opens New Gallery With "Visions And Views" June 13

The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) will inaugurate its newly renovated Hoover-Paul Works on Paper Gallery with "Vision and Views: Master Prints from the Collection," an exhibition featuring a selection of early European prints from the museum's collection, on view at the UIMA June 13-Oct. 17. More>>
University of Iowa Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/information/index.html

Russell Comments On Macular Degeneration Study
(Forbes.com, May 11)

People who develop age-related macular degeneration tend to die earlier than those who don't get the vision-robbing disease, a new study reports. Why this happens isn't known, but experts suspect eye problems such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cataracts may be a sign of early aging or other pervasive systemic health problems, such as heart disease. DR. STEPHEN R. RUSSELL is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa. "We have known for a long time that patients with AMD have higher incidence of cardiovascular disease, and they are also weaker than normal," he said. "Why this is the case isn't known," he added, "but it does go along with the idea that there is general systemic disease." The article also appeared on the web site of WFIE-TV in Indiana. More>>
Dr. Stephen R. Russell: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/BIOGRAPH/russell.htm

Kerber Discusses Early Days of Feminism
(Washington Post, May 21)

By 1971, the so-called "second wave" of feminism — whose origin is often dated to the 1963 publication of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" — had gathered enough momentum to start rocking America's sociocultural boat. In profession after profession, women began forcing their way through previously barred doors. The study of history proved no exception, though the first women through those doors didn't have an easy time of it. "The scorn was incredible," says LINDA KERBER, a prominent University of Iowa scholar and former president of the Organization of American Historians. Kerber is talking about the resistance she and her colleagues encountered, even in the early 1970s, to the notion that studying women was a legitimate academic endeavor. Yet to examine the world from this new perspective was tremendously energizing as well. "All the inherited history has to be redone. There ain't no girls in it!" she says. "And suddenly, they matter." More>>
Linda Kerber: http://www.uiowa.edu/~history/faculty/kerber.html
Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: http://www.uiowa.edu/~history/index.html

David Disputes "Torture Lite" Label
(International Herald Tribune, May 24)

When a reporter asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently to comment on allegations of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, he demurred. While he was comfortable with the word "abuse," he hesitated to use torture to describe what happened in Abu Ghraib. Instead he substituted another T-word: "terrible." Rumsfeld is not alone; no one else in America seems able to say "torture," either, writes MARCELLA DAVID, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, in an op-ed piece. The media have picked up Rumsfeld's cue that while this is terrible, it isn't that bad — and further emphasize that it is neither as extensive nor horrific as that perpetrated by Saddam Hussein's regime. Of course, under Saddam torture wasn't as extensive and horrific as in Nazi Germany. But does that mean that thousands of Iraqis weren't tortured? Clearly, no. The truth is that we Americans simply don't get to make ourselves feel better by refusing to call what happened at Abu Ghraib torture or by characterizing it as "torture lite." Such an attitude ignores the accusations that some prisoners were sodomized or killed; it disregards the chilling photo of the hooded prisoner hooked up to wires; it discounts the reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross that many prisoners bear evidence of nerve damage. Indeed, it nurtures the culture that gives rise to incidents of abuse and torture. More>>
Marcella David: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/marcella-david.php
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/

Reagan Broadcast Four UI Games For $35
(Washington Post, June 6)

With radio becoming an integral part of American life in 1932, former President Ronald Reagan auditioned for a sports announcer's job at WOC, Davenport, Iowa. He had to stand in front of a microphone in a studio and make up a game. With extraordinary detail and excitement in his voice, he recounted much of the fourth quarter of a game in which he played for Eureka — only in his fictitious version, Eureka won a game it actually lost. WOC hired him to broadcast football. "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen. We are speaking to you from high atop the Memorial Stadium of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. . . ." he recalled in an early autobiography, "Where's the Rest of Me?" He was paid $35 total to do four Iowa games. More>>

Happly Ever After? Happily Ever After?

With the country divided and embroiled in the debate over gay marriage, Iowa couples bring the issue home. More>>

Fashion Guru

An Iowa graduate shows how much appearances do matter on the reality TV show “Extreme Makeover.” More>>

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