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'Remember, Reimagine, Rebuild':
UI marks flood anniversary June 15
The University of Iowa commemorated the anniversary of the historic flood of 2008 on Monday, June 15 at the Old Capitol Museum with displays of flood-related photographs and research, audio excerpts from the StoryCorps project, remarks by university officials and guests and a musical performance. View video of the event at: http://winmedia.uiowa.edu/president/20090615-flood.wmv
Record flood of 2008 results in UI flood research projects of 2009
One year after the historic flood of 2008, University of Iowa researchers -- including many from the College of Engineering's IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering research unit -- are conducting a dozen federally funded studies to learn more about flood-related phenomena and alleviate the effects of future floods.
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/061509flood-research.html
Related
- Krajewski named director of new Iowa Flood Center: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/061609floodcenter.html
- StoryCorps project preserves personal stories from university's historic floods: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/061509storycorps.html
- Survey reveals health effects of 2008 floods on UI students: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/061509flood-survey.html
Museum of Natural History announces new sloth bone discoveries
The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History's Tarkio Valley Sloth Project has discovered a bone from a type of giant Ice Age sloth never before recorded in Iowa. More >>
UI Museum of Natural History: http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/
Porter study shows how high homeownership costs
harm bankrupt families
Few Americans who struggle with high housing costs will be able to save their homes by filing for bankruptcy because of limitations in federal bankruptcy law, new research by University of Iowa law professor and bankruptcy researcher Katie Porter suggests. More >>
Katie Porter: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/katie-porter.php
Video: Erik Lie research suggests bankruptcy won't help GM much
New research by Erik Lie, a finance professor in the Tippie College of Business, suggests today's bankruptcy filing by General Motors will be of little help to the company's long-term prospects. In this video, he explains that his study shows most companies declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy emerge too soon and with too much debt to remain competitive with their peer companies. More >>
Related: Lie weighs in on General Motors bankruptcy (CNBC, June 1)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1137998950&play=1
UI Press releases paperback edition of Van Allen biography
The paperback edition of "James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles," Abigail Foerstner's acclaimed biography of the University of Iowa's famed space pioneer, will become available from the UI Press on June 1. More >>
UI Press: http://www.uiowapress.org
Study: veterinarians at high risk for viral, bacterial infections
from animals
The recent H1N1 influenza epidemic has raised many questions about how animal viruses move to human populations. While there is no evidence that veterinarians played a direct role in the current H1N1 epidemic, a new report by University of Iowa College of Public Health researchers shows that veterinarians are at markedly increased risk of infection with zoonotic pathogens, the viruses and bacteria that can infect both animals and humans. More >>
UI College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
UI-led team develops DNA compounds that could help treat lupus
A research team has generated DNA-like compounds that effectively inhibit the cells responsible for the most common and serious form of lupus. The findings could eventually lead to new treatments for this difficult disease, which affects up to one million Americans. More >>
Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/CCOM/
UI Health Care announces work force changes
As part of its ongoing efforts to reduce expenses, UI Health Care announced on June 2 that it will trim the size of UI Hospitals and Clinics' 6,600-member work force by eliminating some filled positions. The positions being eliminated will result from normal attrition, normal retirements and layoffs. In addition, many vacant positions will remain unfilled. More >>
UI Hospitals & Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/uihospitalsandclinics/
Related: President Mason provides update on budget, stimulus funding
http://budget.uiowa.edu/may19budgetupdate
UI Children's Hospital is part of national pediatric brain
injury initiative
UI Children's Hospital has been selected as the State Lead Center for Iowa to implement the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan. The plan, which was developed by the National Advisory Board of the Sarah Jane Brain Project, aims to develop a seamless, standardized, evidence-based system of care that will be accessible to children who have experienced brain injury and their families, regardless of where they live in the country. More >>
UI Children's Hospital: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/uichildrenshospital
Writers’ Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson wins Orange Prize
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson has been awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel, "Home," the companion to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Gilead." More >>
Iowa Writers' Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
Related
- Big 10 Network to air interview with Robinson
http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/june/060509ataglance.html#btn
- New Iowa City Book Festival set for July 18
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/may/051309book-festival.html
- Iowa Public Radio donates 'Live from Prairie Lights' recordings to UI Libraries
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/may/052709prairie-lights-archive.html
Hancher's 2009-10 season ranges far beyond the
University of Iowa
Tickets are now on sale for the 2009-10 Hancher performing arts season at the University of Iowa - and beyond. A free brochure details an "uncontained season" presented in 11 locations, including venues in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Chicago and Riverside, as well as the UI campus and Iowa City. More >>
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/
Big Ten recognizes 22 Sportsmanship Award winners
The Big Ten recently announced the 22 student-athletes named Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2008-09 academic year. These individuals were chosen from a group of 276 student-athletes honored throughout the academic year who had displayed positive sportsmanship. Iowa's winners are senior men's tennis player Christian Bierich and senior women's basketball player Wendy Ausdemore. More >>
Iowa men's tennis: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-tennis/iowa-m-tennis-body.html
Iowa women's basketball: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/iowa-w-baskbl-body.html
Jake Owen scheduled to open FRYFest concert Sept. 4
Country music star Jake Owen is scheduled to open FRYFest concert at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, followed by The Outlaws and headliner The Charlie Daniels Band. Owen is nominated for two Country Music Television (CMT) Music Awards for the song "Life in a Northern Town." Fry -- Iowa's winningest football coach -- will be recognized in this inaugural year of the festival, which is named in his honor and will take place the Friday before Iowa’s first home football game. More >>
FryFest: http://www.fryfest.com/
UI psychologist studies gestures in learning
(Scientific American, May 19)
Many scientists now think that gestures can help the person making them -- that moving your hands can help you think. Researchers have become increasingly interested in the connection between the body and thought -- in the ways that our physical body shapes abstract mental processes. New research by psychologist SUSAN WAGNER COOK of the University of Iowa and colleagues at other institutions looked at whether children coached to make the "v" gesture while solving math problems learned how to solve the problem better. More >>
Secondary gesture article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133204.htm
Hemley 'book blockade' piece sets off firestorm
(Inquirer, June 6)
University of Iowa English faculty member Robin Hemley wrote an Internet column about an illegal book tax in the Philippines he thought would be read by a few friends. But that May 1 column, titled "The Great Book Blockade of 2009," launched what Hemley calls a firestorm of protest against the Philippine government. More >>
Robin Hemley: http://english.uiowa.edu/faculty/hemley/
Program, parents help teens avoid risky behavior
(Science Centric, May 15)
Children's behavior is determined, in part, by their genes and by the settings in which they develop. A new longitudinal study describes how a family-based prevention program helped rural African American teens avoid engaging in risky behaviors, even if some of them may have had a genetic risk to do so. The study, by researchers at the University of Georgia, the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, and Vanderbilt University, appears in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development. More >>
Ponseti celebrates 95th birthday at work
(Chicago Tribune, June 4)
An Iowa doctor who developed a special treatment for clubfoot disease in children has celebrated his 95th birthday by doing what he loves doing. Dr. IGNACIO PONSETI marked the milestone on Wednesday working at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. He sees patients three times a week or consults with other doctors. More >>
Ponseti and clubfeet: http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/medicaldepartments/orthopaedics/clubfeet/
Remarkable people: Olivia Myers
The UI student, reigning Miss Iowa, and Miss America second runner-up shares her passion for learning. More>>
UI International Community: http://international.uiowa.edu/about/alumni/get-involved.asp
Q&A: Kelly Thornburg, Women's Resource and Action Center
Kelly Thornburg says watching women in her family negotiate complex and inefficient support systems while suffering from serious mental illness was a lesson in who has power and a voice in our country and world. Today she is helping UI undergraduate women develop public leadership skills, learn about civic involvement and network with women in public leadership from across the state through the Iowa National Education for Women’s (N.E.W.) Leadership Institute. More >>
WRAC Iowa: http://www.uiowa.edu/~wrac/
Iowa Insights podcast: Flood anniversary, disability studies and
safe drinking water
The June 2009 edition of "Iowa Insights," the University of Iowa Office of University Relations' monthly podcast, features an interview with campus planning director Rod Lehnertz on campus planning one year after 2008's historic flooding; English professor Stephen Kuusisto talking about new disability studies courses he's teaching; and engineering professor Craig Just talking about a handheld device invented at the UI that costs less than $10 and turns unpotable water into safe drinking water. More >>
Video Feature: UI future teachers mentor students through
school district collaboration
Future educators at the University of Iowa did everything from attend baseball games to provide campus tours through an innovative collaboration. The yearlong UI Leadership and Public Service Seminar offered through the UI College of Education Division of Counseling, Rehabilitation and Student Development in collaboration with the Iowa City Community School District, gave 10 UI undergraduate students an opportunity to meet weekly with junior high students for conversation, support and academic guidance - making a profound difference in the lives of these younger students. More >>
Iowa student mentors: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/031209student_mentors.html
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