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UI President Sally Mason issues message about budget to alumni
Dear Alumni:
These are difficult times for The University of Iowa, but I want to assure you that we are doing all we can to make sure your university remains a strong and vital player in the life of the state, the country and the world. More >>
Related: Mason joins other Regents school presidents in forgoing salary increase, bonus
http://budget.uiowa.edu/presidents_salaries
Related: UI Health Care leaders announce voluntary cost reduction moves
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/031009cost_reduction.html
UI to begin offering new Certificate in Sustainability in fall 2009
Gone are the days when the environment was solely the purview of biologists, climatologists and engineers. If tomorrow’s world is truly going to be greener, teachers, dental assistants, grassroots advocates, government leaders and even artists must be prepared to contribute to sustainable systems and practices. To help put students on a path toward becoming effective leaders and agents of change for sustainability in whatever professional setting they choose, the University of Iowa will begin offering a new Certificate in Sustainability in fall 2009. More >>
Related: Iowa student engineers develop hand-held water sanitizer for a thirsty world
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/february/021609water_sanitizer.html
'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture
In his latest book, "Freaks of Nature," University of Iowa psychologist Mark Blumberg examines nature's oddities as a window for exploring the development and evolution of body, brain and behavior. He focuses on physical abnormalities -- how they happen and how creatures adjust to them -- to illustrate his belief that nature and nurture are inseparable and equally important to development. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
Behavioral studies show baboons, pigeons capable of higher-level cognition
It's safe to say that humans are smarter than animals, but a University of Iowa researcher is investigating the extent of that disparity in intelligence. And, it may not be as great a gap as you suspect, according to UI psychologist Ed Wasserman. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
UI Libraries digitizes early TV documents
The switch to digital telecasts is on, and to mark the occasion the Iowa Digital Library has released a new online collection celebrating the birth of American prime-time TV more than 75 years ago, when regularly scheduled TV programs were launched on the University of Iowa campus in a building at the corner of Iowa Avenue and Dubuque Street in Iowa City. More >>
The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/
State Health Registry provides latest on cancer in Iowa
The number of cancer deaths and new cancer cases in Iowa is projected to remain the same as last year, but cancer could soon exceed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the state, said an expert with the State Health Registry of Iowa, located in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health. More >>
Related: UI helps advance colorectal cancer awareness
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/030909colorectal_cancer.html
Related: UI Press releases cancer-survival memoir March 15
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/030609cancer_memoir.html
College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
New surgical implant tested at UI prevents total blindness
UI ophthalmologists and colleagues have tested and are now using a tiny surgical implant called Retisert to prevent complete vision loss and eliminate dependence on systemic, or whole-body, immunosuppression for people who have a rare, but potentially devastating, eye condition called sympathetic ophthalmia. More >>
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/ophthalmology/
UI study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'
Most people consume far too much salt, and a University of Iowa researcher has discovered one potential reason we crave it: it might put us in a better mood. UI psychologist Kim Johnson and colleagues found in their research that when rats are deficient in sodium chloride, common table salt, they shy away from activities they normally enjoy, like drinking a sugary substance or pressing a bar that stimulates a pleasant sensation in their brains. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
2009 Iowa Summer Writing Festival is now accepting registrations
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa is now accepting registrations for its 2009 sessions. Weeklong and weekend workshops including fiction, poetry, nonfiction and playwriting will run from June 7 through July 24. In all, 140 noncredit workshops will be held. More >>
Iowa Summer Writing Festival: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/
UI's Gompper wins Arts and Letters 'Academy Award'
David Gompper, professor of composition at the University of Iowa School of Music and director of the UI Center for New Music, is one of four composers selected by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the organization's 2009 "Academy Award." More >>
University of Iowa School of Music: http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/
UI Museum of Art to open IMU and Levitt Center galleries; receives NEH grant
The University of Iowa Museum of Art -- whose former building was severely damaged during the flood of 2008 -- has received an Emergency Flood Assistance grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help turn the Iowa Memorial Union's Richey Ballroom into an art gallery. More >>
Related: UI evaluates replacement for two flood-damaged building complexes
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/031309flood_damage.html
University of Iowa Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/
Greed is good for Iowa wrestlers: Hawkeyes secure 33rd Big Ten Championship
After winning a second consecutive Big Ten Conference wrestling team championship March 8, University of Iowa head coach Tom Brands paid Hawkeye fans the ultimate compliment by calling them greedy. "Our fan base is very greedy and I love it," Brands said, after being named Big Ten Coach of the Year for the second year in a row. More >>
Hawkeye Wrestling: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-wrestl/iowa-m-wrestl-body.html
McGlaughlin candidate For Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
Senior Colleen McGlaughlin is one of 30 softball student-athletes nationally to be nominated for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. McGlaughlin, along with Penn State's Danielle Kinley and Northwestern's Tammy Hill, are the only Big Ten nominees for the award. The award, which stands for "Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School," focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages those leaders to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact. More >>
Hawkeye Softball: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/w-softbl/iowa-w-softbl-body.html
Study finds hand gestures help math skills (School Library Journal, March 2)
A new study from the University of Chicago says that gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics. It's long been known that movement helps people remember and retrieve information about an event or physical activity associated with action. But psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow's article, "Gesturing Gives Children New Ideas About Math," is the first to show that gestures also help create new ideas. SUSAN WAGNER COOK, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, is a co-author of the study. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
Hunnicutt comments on recession (New York Times, Feb. 28)
Recessions have a way of upending the established order of things. For decades, Americans have worked longer hours, with fewer vacations, than people in most other industrialized countries. Now, suddenly, those who have managed to avoid unemployment are being asked to work less. Studies show that reducing work hours can increase productivity per hour. During the Great Depression, Kellogg's instituted a 30-hour workweek that was so popular vestiges of it lasted until the mid-1980s. Within two years, productivity had reached 40-hour levels, said BENJAMIN HUNNICUTT, a professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa and the author of "Kellogg's Six-Hour Day." Morale improved, and 85 percent of workers liked the change despite the lower pay, he said. More >>
Division of Interdisciplinary Programs: http://www.uiowa.edu/~interdi/leisure/
O'Connor impressed others at the UI (Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 27)
In a review of Brad Gooch's biography of Flannery O'Connor, critic Steve Weinberg wrote, "An only child of observant Catholic parents, O'Connor was reared first in Savannah and then in the more rural Milledgeville, a racially segregated Southern town that hosted a women's college, a prison and an insane asylum. Mary Flannery O'Connor transcended that milieu briefly by attending the renowned Writers' Workshop at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Still in her early 20s, she immediately impressed fellow students and professional writing instructors with her polished paragraphs. She did not shy away from depressing content, nor did she shy away from controversial racial and sexual allusions." More >>
Iowa Writers' Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/
UI alumnus was first African-American in NFL Hall of Fame (Black Athlete, Feb. 23)
Emlen Tunnell, who played football at the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, was one of the NFL's first defense-only stars, and became the first African-American inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. More >>
Hawkeye Football: http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/iowa-m-footbl-body.html
UI Alumni Association's Gridiron Glory: www.iowalum.com/magazine/football_history/1947.html
Remarkable People: Andy Stoll learns about his place in the world by exploring it
When Andy Stoll couldn't choose just one thing to do after graduation, he decided to do it all: to study filmmaking in Hong Kong; teach English in Kazakhstan; farm maize in Zambia; bartend in the Australian Outback; search for wild orangutans in the jungles of Borneo; trade stories with poets in India; and demonstrate pie making on Armenian national television. More >>
Oakdale Prison Community Choir creates unique learning opportunities
They won't be singing "Jailhouse Rock" or "Folsom Prison Blues." Rather, 20 inmates at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville are joining 20 volunteer community members and eight University of Iowa students to lift their voices in jubilant song as part of a groundbreaking choral experience this spring semester. More >>
Breaking the silence: Iowa family unites to give children of war-torn Uganda triumphant voice
The young woman labors atop a desk inside a bullet-ridden school in Lukodi, Uganda. She's scared and in great pain—but her doctor remains steady. By the twin glow of a car's headlights, he sterilizes a pair of kindergarten scissors with flame from a match. More >>
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