May 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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UI PROGRAMS RANK HIGHLY
For a listing of UI programs and colleges that place nationally in the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report and other publications, check out the following URL: http://www.uiowa.edu/president/rankings.html

GENERAL NEWS

HEALTH NEWS

ARTS NEWS

ATHLETICS NEWS

UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

FEATURES
GENERAL NEWS

College of EducationScience Educators Net $270,000 In Federal Grants
The University of Iowa College of Education has received nearly $270,000 in federal grants to help K-12 teachers across Iowa -- particularly those in low-income schools -- learn how to more effectively teach math and science and better assess the results.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/041603education-grants.html
UI College of Education: http://www.uiowa.edu/~coe2/

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Tippie College of BusinessBusiness College Receives $25 Million Gift
Jerre Stead, a 1965 UI business graduate, and his spouse, Mary Joy Stead, have made a $25 million gift commitment to the UI's Henry B. Tippie College of Business to support a variety of programs and initiatives, college and UI Foundation officials have announced.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/042103stead-gift.html
UI Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

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Willard "Sandy" BoydBoyd To Remain On White House Cultural Committee
UI law professor Willard "Sandy" Boyd said he has no intention of not accepting an appointment to the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee, despite the recent resignations of three of its members to protest the conduct of the war in Iraq.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/042103cultural-committee.html
UI College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
Willard Boyd Biography: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/willard-boyd.php

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"Razing Appalachia" by UI professor Sasha WatersProfessor's Film To Air May 20 On PBS, Iowa Public Television
A documentary film by University of Iowa professor Sasha Waters will air nationally on the PBS program Independent Lens on Tuesday, May 20, including on Iowa Public Television at 11:30 p.m. The film, "Razing Appalachia," explores the controversial issue of mountaintop removal mining by following a grassroots fight to stop the process in West Virginia. Set in the town of Blair, in Pigeonroost Hollow in the misty folds of the Appalachian Mountains, the film follows the journey of several families as they struggle to protect their land. Waters is an assistant professor of cinema and comparative literature in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/may/050703film.html
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ccl/index.html

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HEALTH NEWS

UI Health CareUI Gets NIH Grant For Prostate Study
University of Iowa Health Care researchers have received a seven-year, $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study whether phytotherapy -- use of plant extracts -- is effective in treating the enlarged prostate.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/041003prostate-treatments.html
UI Health Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/

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Carver College of MedicineTime Capsule To Immortalize Elementary School Students
Fourth and fifth graders from 34 cities and towns across Iowa will earn a little bit of immortality via a time capsule at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/041503time-capsule.html
Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

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UI Researchers Discover New Cause of Muscular DystrophiesUI Researchers Discover New Cause Of Muscular Dystrophies
" No pain, no gain." So say those working out to build up their muscles; exercise causes tears in muscle membrane and the healing process produces an increased amount of healthy muscle. New University of Iowa research into two types of muscular dystrophy now has opened the door on a muscle repair process and identified a protein that plays a critical role.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/may/050803dystrophies-study.html
Department of Physiology and Biophysics: http://www.physiology.uiowa.edu/
Department of Neurology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/neurology/welcome.html

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ARTS NEWS

Hancher Auditorium Announces New SeasonHancher Auditorium Announces 2003-2004 Performing-Arts Season
Tickets are now available by mail-order for the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium's 2003-2004 performing-arts season. From its opening on Sept. 13, 2003, with silken-voiced American roots legend Emmylou Harris, through an April 16-17, 2004, Hancher-commissioned celebration of the Paul Taylor Dance Company's 50th anniversary, the season will be a melding of old favorites and new experiences.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/april/041503hancher.html
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.uiowa.edu/hancher/

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Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney Wins Truman Capote Award For Literary Criticism
" Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001" by Irish Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney, is the winner of the 2003 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $50,000 Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/may/050803heaney-capote-award.html
UI Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/

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ATHLETICS NEWS

FedEx Orange BowlUI Athletic Department Nets $250,000 On FedEx Orange Bowl
The University of Iowa Athletic Department managed its participation in the 2003 FedEx Orange Bowl at a profit of slightly more than $250,000, UI officials announced in coordination with the distribution of a summary of the university's expenses associated with participation in the Bowl Championship Series.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2003/may/050203orange-bowl.html
Hawkeye Sports: http://www.hawkeyesports.com

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UI IN THE NATIONAL NEWS

Slave Document Is "Stunning"Slave Document Is "Stunning"
 (Kansas City Star, April 16)
A story about the discovery in Missouri of over 4 million historic court records by and about African-American slaves says that before this cache of documents was discovered, historians had no idea how many slaves had put their faith, and their fates, in the courts. They thought Dred Scott was an anomaly. Now they are uncovering evidence of an underground grapevine that passed word about the freedom suits from slave to slave, emboldening men and women, and even teen-age children, to sue. Dozens won their cases, persuading juries of 12 white men to set them free. A few even won damages against their masters. "This is a stunning find. It's just phenomenal," said LEA VANDERVELDE, a law professor at the University of Iowa who is writing a book on the freedom suits.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/5638914.htm
UI College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
Lea Vandervelde Biography: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/l-vandervelde.php

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Filmmaker Mark MoskowitzFilmmaker Seeks UI Alumnus
(LA Weekly April 25)
Mark Moskowitz wasn't meant to be a writer, which isn't to say that he never tried. There were attempts at novels, born out of his lifelong love of reading, pages of hope accumulated, and ultimately abandoned, in some dusty drawer. Moskowitz's true - and no less noble - calling would turn out to be filmmaking, though even that muse was late in coming. Little did he suspect, when he set out in search of UNIVERSITY OF IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP alumnus Dow Mossman - putting on hold a prolific career as a producer of television political-campaign ads - he would end up with a feature-length documentary film. Stone Reader is a film about his search for Mossman, whose first and only (and long out of print) novel, The Stones of Summer, Moskowitz had picked up and just as quickly put down in 1972, but which, upon re-reading it some 25 years later, now seemed to him a masterpiece.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/23/books-foundas.php

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Bike Lovers Wed on UI CampusBike Lovers Wed On UI Campus
(New York Times, April 29)
An old-fashioned wedding it was not - no wedding dress, no walk down the aisle, no champagne - just a couple of bike enthusiasts taking their marriage vows in cycling gear and helmets. Andrea Mugge rode on a tandem bike with her father down a pedestrian path on the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA campus. She met the groom, Lee Venteicher, under an arch made of bicycle tires. "I've never been conventional," Mugge said. "I can't stand wearing dresses, so this was perfect." Versions of the Associated Press story also ran April 29 on the websites of WSET in Virginia, the ALBANY TIMES UNION in New York, THE MISSOULIAN in Montana, FREDERICKSBURG.COM in Virginia, the BISMARCK TRIBUNE in North Dakota, the PORTERVILLE RECORDER in California, the COLUMBUS LEDGER-ENQUIRER in Georgia, the BILOXI SUN HERALD in Mississippi, the MACON TELEGRAPH in Georgia, the WICHITA EAGLE in Kansas, the CENTRE DAILY TIMES in Pennsylvania, the AKRON BEACON JOURNAL in Ohio, the TIMES DAILY in Alabama, the FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE in Indiana, the TUSCALOOSA NEWS in Alabama, the DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE in Minnesota, the WILKES BARRE WEEKENDER in Pennsylvania, the KANSAS CITY STAR in Missouri, WCCO-TV in Minnesota, the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, the SEATTLE TIMES in Washington, the WYOMING NEWS and KTUL-TV in Oklahoma.

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UI law professor Marcella DavidDavid Comments On Sanctions
(Washington Post, May 4)
Private U.S. firms holding contracts to rebuild Iraq say continued economic sanctions pose a potential impediment to their work there, now that President Bush has declared an end to major combat operations and shifted the focus to reconstruction. The firms voiced their legal and practical concerns yesterday at a private meeting with officials for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is awarding most of the Iraqi reconstruction contracts. Some legal experts said the issue is largely theoretical. "It gets strange because of the politics involved," said MARCELLA DAVID, a law professor at the University of Iowa and an expert on Iraqi economic sanctions. "You have to basically argue that the sanctions need to be lifted because they're getting in the way of Bechtel doing their work, which is a hard sell. The fact is the U.S. is an occupying power, and it has a responsibility to provide for the basic needs of the population."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7768-2003May2.html

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FEATURES

Physicians Plant Gardens for Good HealthYou Are What You Eat
Two Iowa-trained physicians promote good health by planting gardens – for themselves and their customers.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/oct01/growing.html

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Iowa's Crew Team Pulls TogetherIowa’s Crew Team Pulls Together
Crew coach Mandi Kowal says “Rowing is the ultimate team sport.” Learn more about Hawkeye rowing and get tips for watching a regatta.
http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/apr03/rowing_feature.html

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