March 2003

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UI Old CapitolRecent selected University of Iowa news summaries prepared through a joint effort of University News Services, the UI Alumni Association, and the UI Foundation.


Editor: Linda Kettner, E-mail: linda-kettner@uiowa.edu

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OLD CAPITOL DOME RETURNS

Old Capitol Dome ReturnsFollowing months of preparation, the University of Iowa raised a rebuilt and freshly gilded dome atop the Old Capitol on Monday, Feb. 24. The new dome, about 18 feet wide and weighing some 12,000 pounds, replaces the original, destroyed in a $6 million fire on Nov. 20, 2001. The most visible part of the Old Capitol restoration project, the dome was gilded with about $8,000 worth of gold leaf on Feb. 14 by Conrad Schmitt Studios of New Berlin, Wis.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022403dome-raising.html
Old Capitol Museum:http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/

GENERAL NEWS

HEALTH NEWS

ARTS NEWS

UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

FEATURES
GENERAL NEWS

UI Library Offers Reference HelpNew Service Brings UI Libraries Reference Help To Every Iowan
Iowans across the state will soon have access to online help from professional research librarians to find reference materials on the World Wide Web through a new service offered by the University of Iowa Libraries.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/021103library-reference.html
UI Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/

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UI Foundation LogoUI Foundation Sets New Records For Gifts, Givers In 2002
The University of Iowa Foundation recorded its most productive year ever in 2002, with record numbers of outright gifts, pledges and contributors. The foundation's total fund-raising productivity in 2002 reached nearly $169 million -- the highest total fund-raising productivity in the foundation's 46-year history, and nearly 36 percent above the total foundation productivity recorded in 2001.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/021203foundation.html
UI Foundation: http://www.uifoundation.org

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UI Dept. of Physics & AstronomyU.S. Space Pioneer Van Allen Toasts Pioneer 10 Spacecraft
"Like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, we all fade away." That is how Dr. James A. Van Allen, U.S. space pioneer and Regent Distinguished Professor in the University of Iowa department of physics and astronomy, reacted to the Feb. 26 NASA announcement that the working life of Pioneer 10, NASA's most venerable spacecraft, had come to an end.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022703pioneer10-vanallen.html
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Physics & Astronomy: http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/

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UI power plantUI To Burn Oat Hulls For Economic, Environmental Benefit
Tests conducted at the University of Iowa power plant this fall and winter found that burning oat hulls in place of coal not only saves money, but is better for the environment. The university investigated the fuel option in a cooperative project with Quaker Foods & Beverages, a division of Pepsico.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/030603oats-burn.html

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HEALTH NEWS

Preventing asthma-related urgent care visitsMedication Prevents Common Cold From Causing Asthma Crises
For people with asthma, the viral infections that cause the common cold are a major cause of health emergencies, including hospitalizations. However, an oral anti-inflammatory medication, used at home when cough from a cold first appears, is highly effective in preventing asthma-related urgent care visits and hospitalizations, especially for pre-schoolers. That is the health- and cost-saving message a University of Iowa Health Care pediatrician is getting out to colleagues and families.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022103asthma.html
UI Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

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UIHC Center for Pain Medicine & Regional AnesthesiaNew Center At UI Hospitals And Clinics Helps Manage Pain
Anesthesia specialists at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are now caring for patients in a state-of-the-art center that will significantly advance the field of pain management.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022603paincenter.html
Center for Pain Medicine & Regional Anesthesia: http://www.anesth.uiowa.edu/painmedicine/

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UI College of Public HealthState Health Registry Issues 'Cancer in Iowa: 2003'
In 2003, the state of Iowa will see an estimated 14,700 new cancer cases and 6,400 deaths due to cancer, according to "Cancer in Iowa: 2003," the annual report issued by the State Health Registry of Iowa, based at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. The projections are based on data from the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Iowa Cancer Registry. This year's report includes a special focus on colorectal cancer.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/march/030403cancer-report.html
UI College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/

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ARTS NEWS

Celebrate the FarmUI Museum Of Art Will Celebrate The Farm March 7-May 4
"Celebrating the Farm: The Art of Living on the Land" will bring three simultaneous exhibitions to the University of Iowa Museum of Art from March 7 through May 4. The exhibitions will be "Farm Life in Iowa: Photographs by A.M. Wettach," "Remembering the Family Farm, 150 Years of American Prints" and "Rural Visions: Paintings by Marvin Cone."
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022103celebrate-farm.html
UI Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/

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UI Writers' Workshop Wins AwardIowa Writers' Workshop Wins National Humanities Medal
The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop has been selected to receive the National Humanities Medal, presented by the U.S. government to honor America's leaders in the humanities. Only one organization has been honored in the past -- all the other honorees have been individuals -- and the Iowa Writers' Workshop is the first university-based organization to be honored. President George W. Bush presented the medal to Frank Conroy, director of the Writers' Workshop, in a White House ceremony Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/february/022703workshop-medal.html
UI Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/

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UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

University of Iowa Health Care LogoScientists Find Virus Slows AIDS (New York Times, Feb. 14)
Infection with a common harmless virus seems to slow the progress of H.I.V. and prolong the survival of AIDS patients, according to new evidence reported by American scientists. Those doctors on the research team included DR. JACK T. STAPLETON of the University of Iowa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/health/14IMMU.html (Registration required)
Dr. Jack Stapleton Biography: http://www.int-med.uiowa.edu/Divisions/ID/Directory/JackStapleton.html

A story on the same topic appeared February 14 in the USA Today, Los
Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, San
Francisco Chronicle, Omaha World Herald, Richmond Times Dispatch,
Washington Post, The Aage (Australia), The Australian, Syracuse Post
Standard, Santa Fe New Mexican and LAS VEGAS SUN.

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Dr. James Van AllenVan Allen Comments On NASA (New York Times, Feb. 18)
Scientists like JAMES VAN ALLEN led early successes in space exploration. Today, though, NASA is dominated not by scientists and engineers who think big but by technical managers who rely largely on outside contractors who have themselves been rocked by consolidation, layoffs and lean economic times. "There's been a steady decay in the competence and the feeling that you're really dealing with scientific peers," said Dr. Van Allen, who with his group at the University of Iowa has sent instruments on mission after mission with NASA over the decades. Reliance on outside contractors has left personnel at NASA centers like the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with little hands-on expertise. "They don't really know what's going on," Dr. Van Allen said. "They do what they are supposed to, in a very narrow sense, on a day-to-day basis."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/national/nationalspecial/18EROD.html (Registration required)
What Is A Space Scientist: http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/java/

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UI Dept. of Political ScienceSquire Discusses Iowa (The New Republic, Feb. 28)
An article about anti-war Democrats in Iowa quotes UI political science professor PEVERILL SQUIRE about the roots of the state's conflicted internationalist bent. "The state of Iowa has these conflicting traditions of being isolationist, staying out of other people's business. At the same time, the state is pretty internationalist, especially on trade." Iowa politicians have regularly backed the free-trade alphabet soup of GATT, NAFTA, PNTR, and TPA.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030310&s=lizza031003
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Political Science: http://www.uiowa.edu/~polisci/

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UI Tippie College of BusinessNelson On Markets (Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 1)
Tradesports.com has a futures market open for when Saddam Hussein will leave office. Tradesports CEO John Delaney says his firm is not a bookmaker, it's a futures market, and odds here are more reliable than "experts" because it is a consensus of worldwide opinion from people putting their money where their mouth is. There's something to that, says FORREST NELSON, a University of Iowa economics professor and a pioneer in political futures trading modeled after the markets that trade winter wheat and hog bellies. His markets have focused on presidential elections, and he says they have been more accurate than polls since 1988. About $150,000 changed hands during the 2000 election, said Nelson. He said the Commodities Futures Trading Commission 10 years ago ruled that his markets were not legal but were "not against the public interest." He said they allowed him to continue if he did not charge commissions. "There's a very fine line between what is gambling and what is not," he said, adding that the markets have a certain "social benefit." "One may argue that it's important to know when we go to war," he said. Nelson said the Department of Defense has talked to him about performing studies to see if markets can predict wars or other geo-political events better than analysts. "What if we had a market for terrorist attacks in existence in September 2001?"
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/iraq/0303/01iraqside.html
Dr. Forrest Nelson Biography: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/faculty/fnelson/

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FEATURES

Mary Gilchrist, director of UI Hygienic LaboratoryUI Battles Pathogens To Keep Farms Safe
Mary Gilchrist, director of the University Hygienic Laboratory, and her staff work to protect Midwestern farms from the threat of agricultural bioterrorism.
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues2002_v40/03072003/safety.html

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UI's hula slothUI's Popular Ambassador Is A Sloth
One of the most popular ambassadors for the University of Iowa towers ten feet tall, has such a thick neck that two Hawkeye ties are required for special occasions, and is covered with 1,500 henna-hued cows' tails.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/feb03/sloth.html

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