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May 2002
Recent 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
(linda-kettner@uiowa.edu)
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IN THIS EDITION:
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GENERAL NEWS
1. Iowa Poet Laureate Marvin
Bell Appointed To Second Term
2. Regents: State University
Budget Cuts--Enough Is Enough
3. Carmichael Uses Grant To
Study Asian Effect On California Air
4. Faculty Don Aprons, Oven
Mitts To Battle Budget Cuts, Tuition Hikes
HEALTH NEWS
5. Andreasen, Greenberg
Named To American Academy Of Arts, Sciences
6. UI Project Helps Secure
New Health Care Rights For Terminally Ill
7. Study: Gulf War Veterans
Have Poorer Health Status
ARTS NEWS
8. Hancher Auditorium Will
Celebrate 30th Anniversary In 2002-2003
9. Robert Hass Is Elected To
American Academy Of Arts And Letters
SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS
10. UI Launches Landmark
Campaign; Public Invited To Celebration
11. UI Alumni Reunion
Weekend Set For June 6-9
UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS
1. Arthur Andersen Recruits
Are In Limbo (Washington Post, April 17)
2. AARP To Join Prescription
Drug Lawsuits (New York Times, April 23)
3. Conroy Quoted On Writing
Courses (Christian Science Monitor, April 23)
4. UI Sends 300 Computers To
Nigeria Classes (AP Worldstream, April 29)
5. Patel Comments On
Mississippi Center (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 3)
GENERAL NEWS
1. IOWA POET LAUREATE MARVIN
BELL APPOINTED TO SECOND TERM
Marvin Bell, Iowa's Poet
Laureate and the Flannery O'Connor Professor
of Letters at the University
of Iowa, has been appointed to a second
term by Gov. Tom Vilsack and
Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson. Bell received
official notification in a
joint letter signed by Vilsack and
Pederson on March 29. His
second term will run from April 2002 through
March 2004.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0416bell.html
Marvin Bell Bio:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~humiowa/marvinbellipl.htm
2. REGENTS: STATE UNIVERSITY
BUDGET CUTS -- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
The Board of Regents, State
of Iowa, issued the following statement
Monday, April 22: the State of Iowa is in a budget crisis and
we
agree that everyone needs to
pitch in. The state's three public
universities have done their
part -- and more. We are being asked to
shoulder a disproportionate
share of the state's burden. It's time to
stop cutting the regent
universities -- it harms public higher
education and it harms the
state.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0422regentsstatement.html
Board of Regents:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~provost/regents/
3. CARMICHAEL USES GRANT TO
STUDY ASIAN EFFECT ON CALIFORNIA AIR
When The New York Times ran
an April 14 story about Asian air
pollution so thick that it
caused residents of Seoul, South Korea to
wear facemasks and blotted
out the sun, University of Iowa researcher
Greg Carmichael wasn't
surprised.
Armed with a new three-year,
$310,000 grant from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Carmichael, a professor of
chemical and biochemical
engineering in the UI College of
Engineering, is studying how
Asian pollution is increasingly
affecting air quality in
California and the rest of the Western
United States.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/may/0501carmichael.html
Greg Carmichael Bio:
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~chemeng/carmichael.html
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration: http://www.noaa.gov/
4. FACULTY DON APRONS, OVEN
MITTS TO BATTLE BUDGET CUTS, TUITION HIKES
Dozens of University of Iowa
professors will attempt to
produce a perfect-or at
least edible-batch of brownies, cookies,
cupcakes, or any other baked
good that can be sold Saturday, May 11
to raise money for student
scholarships. Organized by Wilfrid Nixon,
a professor of civil and
environmental engineering and a member of
the UI Faculty Senate, the
first-ever Budget-Cut Bake Sale runs from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. rain or
shine in Hubbard Park across from the Iowa
Memorial Union at Madison
and Jefferson Streets in Iowa City.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/may/0506bakesale.html
Wilfrid Nixon Bio:
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty_html/nixon_w.htm
HEALTH NEWS
5. ANDREASEN, GREENBERG
NAMED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS, SCIENCES
Two University of Iowa
researchers have each been named a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D.,
Ph.D., the Andrew H. Woods
Chair of Psychiatry and director of the UI
Mental Health Clinical
Research Center, and E. Peter Greenberg,
Ph.D., the Virgil L. and
Evalyn Shepperd Professor of Molecular
Pathogenesis and UI
professor of microbiology, were among the 177
distinguished scholars and
intellectuals selected as Fellows this year
by the academy, one of the
nation's most prominent learned societies
and research institutions.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0430AAAS.html
E. Peter Greenberg Bio:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~molbio/faculty/greenberg-frame.html
Nancy Andreasen Bio:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~neuro/Faculty/andreasenn.htm
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences: http://www.amacad.org/
6. UI PROJECT HELPS SECURE
NEW HEALTH CARE RIGHTS FOR TERMINALLY ILL
Investigators in the
University of Iowa College of Public Health were
instrumental in the
development of a new state law that provides
expanded rights for
terminally ill Iowans. Under the legislation,
terminally ill patients who
are not in the hospital will no longer
have to worry about
receiving unwanted and painful resuscitation
while they are dying.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0430DNR.html
UI College of Public Health:
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
7. STUDY: GULF WAR VETERANS
HAVE POORER HEALTH STATUS
Military veterans who were
deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991
reported poorer health
status than comparable veterans in the armed
forces at that time but who
were not deployed to the Gulf, according
to a study by University of
Iowa and Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) researchers and
colleagues.
The report, published in the
May 15 issue of the American Journal of
Epidemiology, also
identifies several important other factors
associated with worse
health-related quality of life among those
deployed to the Gulf. The
findings are based on an analysis of survey
responses and health outcome
scores from nearly 3,700 Gulf War-era
veterans from Iowa (both
deployed and non-deployed military
personnel) obtained five
years after the end of the Gulf War.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/may/0508gulf-war.html
UI Department of Veterans'
Affairs:
http://www.uiowa.edu/registrar/veterans.html
American Journal of
Epidemiology: http://www.aje.oupjournals.org/
ARTS NEWS
8. HANCHER AUDITORIUM WILL
CELEBRATE 30TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2002-2003
The University of Iowa
Hancher Auditorium will celebrate its 30th
anniversary in the 2002-2003
season, and tickets for the season are
now available by mail order.
The pearl is the precious gem that
represents 30 years, and the
free brochure that details the 2002-2003
season's music, theater and
dance attractions features pearl imagery
throughout and represents
Hancher as "A Pearl by the River."
Brochures have been mailed
to Hancher's full mailing list, so
everyone who regularly
receives Hancher mailings should receive a
brochure soon.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0415hancher.html
Hancher Auditorium:
http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/index.html
9. ROBERT HASS IS ELECTED TO
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
Poet Robert Hass, a visiting
faculty member in the University of Iowa
Writers' Workshop, has been
elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. The former U.S.
Poet Laureate will be inducted into the
academy in May.
The American Academy of Arts
and Letters is limited to 250 members,
so new members are selected
only when vacancies occur. Election to
membership in the academy is
considered one of the highest
recognitions of artistic
merit in this country.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/april/0426hass.html
American Academy of Arts and
Letters:
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0803658.html
SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS
10. UI LAUNCHES LANDMARK CAMPAIGN; PUBLIC
INVITED TO CELEBRATION
To help it launch the
biggest fund-raising effort in the state's history,
the University of Iowa is
inviting the public to two free events on
Saturday, June 8 in Macbride
Hall and Hancher Auditorium. Organizers
of the events promise
"intellectual fireworks, a sense of the UI's
prominent role in history,
and inspiration for the future" as the
university celebrates its
aspirations for even higher levels of
excellence and service in
the years ahead.
From 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the
auditorium of Macbride Hall, a roundtable
of seven of the UI's most
distinguished and thought-provoking faculty
members representing a
spectrum of disciplines will discuss
"The Power of
Perception: A Lens to Our World."
Then at 3 p.m.
in Hancher Auditorium, UI
alumni, contributors, friends, faculty,
staff and students will
gather for the official launch of the public
phase of the UI's
comprehensive fund-raising campaign.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/may/0515public-events.html
11. UI ALUMNI REUNION
WEEKEND SET FOR JUNE 6-9
The University of Iowa
Alumni Reunion Weekend from June 6-9 marks
the celebration of several
special events at the University of Iowa.
First, the university will
honor the anniversary of the graduating
classes of 1962, 1957, 1952
and all years prior. Second, the
university
will honor the College of
Public Health's departments of biostatistics,
epidemiology, and
occupational and environmental health, celebrating
the 25th anniversary of
their formation as academic units.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2002/may/0508alumni-reunion.html
UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS
1. ARTHUR ANDERSEN RECRUITS
ARE IN LIMBO (Washington Post, April 17)
In the past week, several
thousand college recruits around the
country were informed by
telephone and e-mail that their jobs no
longer exist at Arthur Andersen,
a company that had been one of the
nation's most active campus
recruiters. For Arthur Andersen recruits,
the problem has been
particularly acute because they were tied to the
firm as a growing number of
experts began questioning whether it
would survive. "It's a
mess," said LYNN PRINGLE, director of the
master of accountancy
program at the University of Iowa, where about
one-tenth of the 100
graduating accounting students accepted jobs at
Andersen. "The timing
is terrible for them." TY DOGGETT, 21, of
Seymour, Ill., a senior at
the University of Iowa who has accepted a
job in the tax department of
Andersen's Kansas City, Mo. office, said
he did not become
"alarmed by the situation" until the federal
government announced it had
indicted the firm. He said he has been
told his job offer remains
good. "They're telling me I still have a
job and I have to believe
it," Doggett said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62691-2002Apr16.html
UI Henry B. Tippie College
of Business, Accounting:
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/accounting/
2. AARP TO JOIN PRESCRIPTION
DRUG LAWSUITS (New York Times, April 23)
AARP says it intends to join
lawsuits around the country to help its
35 million members gain
access to lower cost prescription drugs.
Lawyers for the organization
said today that they would soon become
involved in two types of
cases. One challenges tactics used by
brand-name drug companies to
delay the marketing of low-cost generic
medicines. In 1984, Congress
passed a law intended to reduce the time
and expense of bringing
generic drugs to market. HERBERT J.
HOVENKAMP, a professor at
the University of Iowa who has written a
treatise on antitrust law,
said companies were "taking advantage of a
kind of loophole in the
statute" to delay generic competition.
Herbert Hovenkamp Bio:
http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/herbert-hovenkamp.php
AARP: http://www.aarp.org/
3. CONROY QUOTED ON WRITING
COURSES (Christian Science Monitor, April 23)
More students are in pursuit
of the perfect paragraph at colleges
across the United States,
and more colleges are adding creative
writing programs. Such
programs, which were once unknown at all but a
few schools such as the
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and the University of New
Hampshire. Today, more than
320 colleges and universities feature
in-depth creative writing
classes, and about 240 have established
creative writing MFA
programs, up from half a dozen such programs in
the early 1980s. At the UI,
for example, 600 aspiring fiction writers
applied last year for 25
slots in the writing program. "A lot of
English majors became
disaffected with deconstructionism and various
other scholarly fads that
were in vogue," says author FRANK CONROY,
who heads the Writers'
Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa
City. "They said, 'I
don't want to do that; I want to write.' And the
thing has just ballooned.
These days, we don't talk about theory very
much, because nobody's
particularly interested. We talk about books."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0423/p15s01-lehl.html
Frank Conroy Bio:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/frank.htm
4. UI SENDS 300 COMPUTERS TO
NIGERIA CLASSES (AP Worldstream, April 29)
More than 300 used computers
from Iowa are heading to classrooms in
Nigeria. The computers and
networking equipment, mostly donated by
Iowa City residents, were to
be shipped Monday to several Nigerian
universities.
"Universities in Africa are hard-pressed to find
equipment," said CLIFF
MISSEN, director of The WiderNet Project, a
nonprofit group at the
University of Iowa that works to improve
communications in developing
countries. "We saw that equipment was
going to landfills that
still had good life in it," he said. Missen
organized the
computer-donation project after teaching in Nigeria at
the University of Jos as a
senior Fulbright scholar in 1998. He said
16,000 students had to share
50 computers at Nigerian universities.
AP Worldstream is
international news distributed by the Associated
Press throughout Africa and
England.
A version of the story also
ran April 29 on YAHOO! NEWS.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020429/ap_wo_en_ge/us_nigeria_computers_2
The WiderNet Project:
http://www.widernet.org/
5. PATEL COMMENTS ON
MISSISSIPPI CENTER (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 3)
The University of Iowa
opened doors Friday to a research center where
biologists and engineers can
come to better understand fish habitat,
shifting river beds and
banks and other mysteries of the nation's
most fabled river. Situated
near a state fish hatchery on the
Mississippi River's west bank,
the Lucille A. Carver River Research
and Education Facility will
give scientists from around the world a
base for studying all
aspects of the river and its ecosystem, from
St. Paul, Minn., to St.
Louis, officials said. "This facility will
attract international
attention, " said V.C. PATEL, director of the
University of Iowa Institute
of Hydraulic Research. "We have a
facility in which people can
collaborate with us to look at
everything about this river
... and take what we learn from here to
other river systems."
The 7,000-square-foot building was made
possible from a $1.2 million
gift to the university from the Roy J.
Carver Charitable Trust of
Muscatine. The station is the dream of
Tatsuaki Nakato, the
center's associate director, who in 1995
floated along both banks of
the river from St. Paul to Cairo, Ill.,
studying bank erosion.
" I realized at that time that as researchers
we needed to be in the field
to make observations and better
understand the relationship
between human activity and nature, and in
this case the river,"
Nakato said.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/568/2719321.html
Carver Gift:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/1999/december/1202carver.html
Nakato's Trip:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/about/news/articles/iihr.pdf
V.C. Patel Bio:
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faculty_html/patel_v.html
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