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Law Students Provide Legal Service To Abuse Victims Who Are Immigrants

University of Iowa law students are helping survivors of domestic abuse apply for lawful immigration status using a federal law that entitles victims of some violent crimes to apply for immigration status. The law allows women, men and children who are abuse victims to self-petition for their immigration status, without being dependent on their abusive spouse, partner or parent, said Jessica Taylor, a third-year law student who coordinates the program. She said that these legal remedies could eventually lead to permanent residency and citizenship.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/february/022305legal_services.html
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/

$1 Million Gift Supports UI English And Ophthalmology Departments

A $1 million gift commitment from University of Iowa graduate Barbara G. Bedell will benefit two key areas: the UI Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The ophthalmology portion of the bequest was made in memory of Bedell's husband, R. Bruce Bedell, who received his medical degree from the UI in 1965 and completed his residency at the UI in ophthalmology in 1970.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/february/022405bedell-gift.html
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
Department of English: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences: http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/

UI Athletes Score Above Average In NCAA Academic Progress Rate Report

University of Iowa student-athletes achieved an overall score above the average for Division I schools in 2003-04 Academic Progress Rate Reports made public today by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The UI achieved an overall score of 972 out of 1000, which compares with the Division I average of 948. Earlier this year, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors agreed that a score of 925, which is the equivalent of a graduation rate of 50 percent, would be the point at which teams would be subject to penalties after a two-year data gathering period.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/february/022805ncaa-report.html

UI Professors Advancing Citizenship, Social Studies Education In Latvia

As a team, University of Iowa College of Education professors Greg Hamot and Peter Hlebowitsh have built an international reputation for their curriculum development work in civics education. Recently, the U.S. State Department awarded the pair another grant of approximately $300,000 to conduct a new materials development project in the Republic of Latvia.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/030905latvia.html
College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/

UI Study Examines Hazing On College Campuses

A clear discrepancy exists between college students' perceptions of hazing and university policy and state law defining hazing activities, according to a University of Iowa study that examined students' perceptions of hazing.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/030105campo_hazing.html
Department of Community and Behavioral Health:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/cbh/

Iowa Baby Is World's First To Receive Life-Saving Robotic Surgery

Surgeons in Children's Hospital of Iowa at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City recently repaired a potentially lethal disorder in a six-day-old Iowa girl, making her the first patient to have this type of defect corrected with a robotic surgical system, and the smallest person to ever receive robotic surgery of any kind anywhere in the world.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/030305robotic_surgery.html
Children’s Hospital of Iowa: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa/index.html

Study Shows Link Between Residential Radon Exposure And Lung Cancer

Two University of Iowa researchers were part of a large multi-center study that provides direct evidence of an association between prolonged residential radon exposure and lung cancer risk.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/march/030905radon.html
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/oeh/
Department of Epidemiology: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/epi/

Hancher Launches Spot Website For Upcoming Artist Residencies In Iowa Towns

The University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium, in partnership with the Iowa communities of Marshalltown, Perry, Spencer and Iowa City/Coralville, will launch the first stage of its interactive Web site -- www.spotkids.com -- for the Hancher Family Arts Adventure on March 1.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/february/022505hancher-spot.html
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/

Kerouac Manuscript Unspooled At UI Museum
(Baltimore Sun, Feb. 15)

For the first time, fans of writer Jack Kerouac and beatniks old and new have a chance to see every word, edit and smudge of his original manuscript, unrolled end to end and under glass at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. It is the first time during its international tour that the yellowed and brittle manuscript has been shown unspooled. "This is the first time people anywhere will be able to get the full effect of the work," said HOWARD COLLINSON, the museum's director. "It does have the character of a piece of artwork, like some kind of performance art. But at the same time, I don't think it was an act of convenience that he put his novel together this way." The same story appeared on the Web sites of the ALBEQUERQUE JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES, NEWARK (N.J.) STAR LEDGER, BOSTON HERALD, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, NEWSDAY, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE, WASHINGTON TIMES, PORTERVILLE (Calif.) RECORD, RAPID CITY (S.D.) JOURNAL, DURANT (Okla.) DAILY DEMOCRAT, MUNSTER (Ind.) TIMES, CBSNEWS.COM, WBAY-TV, WTVO-TV, KATC-TV, and numerous other news organizations.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-celebrity-0215kerouac,1,225474.story
UI Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/information/index.html

Beeghly Comments On Antidepressants
(Fort Wayne News Sentinel, Feb. 25)

The antidepressant Zoloft did not drive a 12-year-old to murder his grandparents, a jury decided last week, but the news was hardly comforting to parents who have children on the medication. Antidepressants now come with ominous new governmental warning labels that describe a frightening link between the drugs and increased suicidal thought and behavior in children. So what is a parent to do? First, ask yourself if the medication your child is taking is working, and how long he has been on it, said child psychiatrist JAMES BEEGHLY, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa. "The greatest risk of suicidal thought is when they first start," Beeghly said. "If the child has been on for a couple of months, they have passed the major risk of suicidal use." The newspaper is based in Indiana.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/10989579.htm
Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html

UI Study: Hormone Therapy, Gallbladder Disease Linked
(Maclean's, March 1)

Postmenopausal women using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have a higher risk of developing gallstones and other forms of gallbladder disease, a recent study has shown. The gallbladder is a sac that stores bile, a digestive fluid produced in the liver. To look for a possible relationship between HRT and gallstone disease, Dr. ROBERT WALLACE and his colleagues at the University of Iowa analyzed data from the Women's Health Initiative, a study involving more than 22,500 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79. The women had been randomly assigned to take HRT or inactive pills. All women assigned to HRT took estrogen, and women who still had a uterus also took progestin to prevent an overgrowth of cells in the uterine lining that can lead to cancer. Maclean's magazine is based in Canada.
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/health/article.jsp?content=20050301_104620_5360
College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/

President's Residence Opened At UI
(Omaha World Herald, March 4)

The public has finally had a chance to see renovations at the president's residence at the University of Iowa. Work on the 1908 house began in autumn 2003. Crews installed large windows and mahogany woodwork reminiscent of the early 1900s. Though work on the $2.9 million project was completed in August, a literary lunch held Wednesday marked the first public event at the house since renovations were completed. "It is an icon of this campus," ROD LEHNERTZ, the university's director of campus and facilities planning, said Wednesday as he led a tour of the home. "And it is one that promotes outreach." The article also appeared on the website of WQAD-TV in Moline, Ill.

The Omaha World Herald story is no longer available online, but a version of this story can be found on the Iowa City Press-Citizen website:
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050303/NEWS01/503030315/1079

Mercury Rising
The debate over humankind's effect on the environment is heating up as more evidence emerges of melting Arctic icecaps, threatened species, and unusual weather patterns. At the UI, a group of engineering students works to be part of the solution, not the problem.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/feb05/exclusive/mercury_rising.html

What Makes Cambus Go?
The wheels on these buses go round and round because students care about serving their riders, whether they're driving the black and gold behemoths, dispatching, or maintaining the buses.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues2004_v42/03042005/index.html

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