On Iowa And Online: UI Launches Web Community For Alumni

University of Iowa graduates can now register for OnIowa.com, the UI's new, official online community for alumni. Among other features, the Website allows users to reconnect with friends and classmates, network with Iowa graduates, share news and search for alumni events in their area. All alumni who register for the community by April 30, 2007, will be automatically eligible to win one of four prizes, including two seats in the Kinnick Stadium Press Box for the Iowa vs. Western Michigan football game on Nov. 17, 2007.
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OnIowa Website: http://www.iowalum.com/oniowa/

Iowa Health Prediction Market Opens Trading On Avian Flu Market

To prepare for a bird flu pandemic, the University of Iowa has unveiled a new tool to help public health officials better predict when the disease will strike and plan ways to stem its effects. The Iowa Health Prediction Market is launching the Avian Flu Market, an information trading and aggregation system to help public health officials around the world collect and analyze information to accurately forecast the timing and extent of a human-to-human bird flu outbreak. More >>

Avian Flu Market: http://fluprediction.uiowa.edu/

'Project 3000': A Recipe For Hope Through Genetic Research

UI physicians and engineers have begun "Project 3000," which aims to identify all 3,000 U.S. men, women and children who have Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, a sight-robbing disease. More >>

Nonprofit Genetic Testing Laboratory: http://carverlab.org/index.shtml

UI Audiology Professor Featured In PBS Documentary 'Through Deaf Eyes'

The debate over how to best educate deaf children is one topic covered in the PBS documentary "Through Deaf Eyes," which premieres at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 21. The two-hour show features interviews with Douglas Baynton, an associate professor of history and audiology and speech pathology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. More >>

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/
Department of History: http://www.uiowa.edu/~history/index.html

Survey Says: UI Top University For Postdoctoral Students

A new survey of postdoctoral students by The Scientist magazine ranks the University of Iowa as the top research university for postdocs in North America and the fifth-best research institution overall. More >>

Tech Savvy: New Ventures Experts To Advise UI Research Foundation Board

The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) has recruited two leading national experts in university-based new ventures formation as the initial members of its Ventures Advisory Board. Pamela York, executive director of the UIRF, said Doug Johnson, director for the University of Minnesota Office of Business Development, and Alfred "Buz" Brown, managing director for BCM Ventures and president of BCM Technologies, have joined the panel. More >>

Research Foundation: http://research.uiowa.edu/techtransfer/research-home.htm

Blood Tests May Be Possible For Mental Health Conditions
 
Blood tests for panic disorder and other mental health conditions are potentially around the corner, based on results from a University of Iowa study. More >>

Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html

UI Study: Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke 'Thinking Outside Box'
 
Antidepressant treatment appears to help stroke survivors with the kind of complex mental abilities often referred to as "thinking outside the box," according to a UI study. More >>

Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

Autism Researchers Report Key Genetic Finding
 
A team of international researchers, including a psychiatrist at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, recently announced the publication of preliminary results from the largest genome scan ever conducted in autism research. More >>

UI Hospitals and Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/
Children’s Hospital of Iowa: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa/index.html

UI Dance Department Featured At Earth Festival In Kenya
 
A contingent from the University of Iowa Dance Department was featured at the "Earth: Healing the Rift" festival, Feb. 24 and 25 in Kenya. More >>

Department of Dance: http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/

UI Writers Well Represented In Granta's 'Best Young American Novelists'
 
Four alumni of University of Iowa writing programs are among the 21 fiction writers selected as the "Best Young American Novelists" by the British literary magazine Granta. The selections were announced March 1. More >>

Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
The Nonfiction Writing Program: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/index.html

Redlawsk Comments On YouTube Impact
(Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 16)

YouTube has become a fact of political life. Politicians can no longer afford unguarded moments, because what they say, any time or anywhere, can be shown to the world. To a certain extent, candidates have accepted this intrusion as a fact of political life, says DAVID REDLAWSK, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, and try to condition themselves to behave accordingly. Of more immediate concern for observers such as Redlawsk is that unlike other political advertising, YouTube attacks can be lobbed without a return address. "It's going to be extremely hard to ever deal with," Redlawsk says. "There's a sacrosanct vision of the first amendment ... but having said that, it's hard for me to imagine how you enforce regulations in an Internet environment." The Sydney Morning Herald is published in Australia. More >>

Political Science: http://www.polisci.uiowa.edu/

Photos Document Decline Of Rural Iowa
(Popular Photography, Feb. 26)

DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER's powerful black-and-white photos have documented rural Iowa -- and its demise -- in stark detail. "Ultimately, many rural communities across the Midwest will die," he writes in the prologue to his first book, "Driftless: Photographs from Iowa," to be published this fall. "In some ways the pictures I have made simply document the process." When Frazier, who now teaches photojournalism at the University of Iowa, started this project a few years ago -- at the time nothing more than an idea and a class assignment. More >>

School of Journalism & Mass Communication: http://www.uiowa.edu/jmc/

Repo Man: Writers' Workshop Alumnus Repossesses Cargo Ships
(L.A. Times, March 1)
 
If repossessing a used Chevrolet can be tricky, consider retrieving the Aztec Express, a 700-foot cargo ship under guard in Haiti as civil unrest spread through the country. Only a few repo men possess the guile and resourcefulness for such a job. One of them is F. Max Hardberger of Lacombe, La. Since 1991, the 58-year-old attorney and ship captain has surreptitiously sailed away about a dozen freighters from ports around the world. He taught history and English in Louisiana and Mississippi after graduating from the University of New Orleans and earning a master's degree from the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA WRITERS' WORKSHOP. More >>

Pascarella Questions Value Of Elite Degrees
(OhmyNews.com, Feb. 23)
 
Contrary to many parents' belief that a degree from a highly esteemed college is the key to future red carpet treatment for their child, researchers found that that's not always the case. "We haven't found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters," says ERNEST T. PASCARELLA of the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, in his book, How College Affects Students, an evaluation of hundreds of studies of the college experience. According to his research, highly selective colleges don't offer better teaching approaches than less-selective colleges. Interestingly, selective schools do slightly worse on two measures -- professors' feedback and the
number of essay exams. OhmyNews news is a multilingual news site originating in Korea. More >>

College of Education: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/

Photo Finish: Iowa Memorial Union Renovations Create Welcoming Space

The Iowa Memorial Union has been the center of campus life since it opened in December 1925. Over the past 80 years, the IMU has grown in size with the university, undergoing five major renovations. Over the past 16 months, construction workers in the IMU have remodeled or built anew roughly 14,000 square feet of recreational, social, study, retail, and work space. See some of the results in a photo feature prepared by University Relations photographer Tom Jorgensen for fyi, the university's faculty-staff newspaper. More >>

An Unnecessary Tragedy: Battling Malaria Across The Globe

Malaria is reaping more lives than ever, but it's also rallying interest from governments, private foundations, public health organizations, and individuals determined to squelch the suffering it causes. More >>

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