Begin Thinking Post-Season Bowl Game!

Thousands of Iowa fans are expected to follow Coach Ferentz and the Hawkeye football team to an anticipated post-season bowl game. Although specifics are not likely to be available until December when the Bowl Championship Series invitations are finalized, we'd like you to start thinking about joining us for the game and the festivities surrounding it. The UI Alumni Association will be providing both air-land and land-only tours for alumni and friends. To get the latest information on the tours when they are announced, please visit http://www.iowalum.com/athletictours/BowlTour04.htm

Minority Enrollment Up Again For Fall At UI

The number of minority students enrolled at the University of Iowa has increased for the fall 2004 semester. The percentage of minority undergraduate students remained the same, with all of the increases seen in graduate and professional students, according to a report prepared for the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. MORE >>

UI Among Top 10 Entrepreneurial Universities

The University of Iowa has been ranked ninth among the Top 25 Entrepreneurial Colleges in the United States as determined by the editors of The Princeton Review and Forbes.com. MORE >>
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center: http://www.iowajpec.org/

Iowa Electronic Markets Forecasted Bush Win In Presidential Election

The IEM continued its track record of predicting election vote-share, predicting Bush's victory within 1.1 percent of the actual outcome. At midnight on Nov. 1, the IEM's vote share market had Bush earning 50.45 percent of the popular vote, compared to 49.55 percent for Kerry. The actual vote count as of Nov. 4 showed 51.54 percent for Bush and 48.55 percent for Kerry. MORE >>
Iowa Electronic Markets: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

UI International Student Enrollment Steady In Contrast With National Trend

International student enrollment at the University of Iowa has remained relatively stable, defying the national decline reported in the recently released fall 2003 census, and the UI now has the 42nd largest international student population in the United States, according to figures from UI International Programs' Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS). MORE >>
International Programs: http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/

UI Center Receives $21 million To Coordinate Data In Diabetes Study

University of Iowa researchers in the College of Public Health and Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have received a $21 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to operate the data coordinating center for an international research consortium studying islet transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes. The network of five clinical centers will focus on improving the safety and long-term success of methods for transplanting islets, the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. MORE >>
The College of Public Health: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/

Baby Is World's Smallest Patient To Receive Robotic Surgery

John Meehan, M.D., a pediatric surgeon with Children's Hospital of Iowa, recently used the da Vinci robotic surgical system to treat the smallest patient in the world reported to ever receive surgery using the advanced technology. MORE >>
Children’s Hospital of Iowa: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/childrenshospitalofiowa/index.html

Managing Risk Factors And Early Intervention Can Lessen Stroke Impact

When it comes to effective stroke care, time is truly of the essence. So says Harold Adams, M.D., professor of neurology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and director of the Stroke Clinic at UI Hospitals and Clinics. MORE >>
Department of Neurology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/neurology/welcome/

Young Dancers Have Opportunity Of A Lifetime In Joffrey ‘Nutcracker’

More than 70 young eastern Iowa dancers will have the opportunity of a lifetime when they perform in the Joffrey Ballet "Nutcracker" Dec. 9-12 in the University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium. MORE >>
Hancher Auditorium: http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/

Fry Article Suggests UI 'Cradle of Coaches'
(MSNBC, Oct. 16)

A story about former Hawkeye Football Coach Hayden Fry's retirement in Nevada suggests that the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA is the new cradle of coaches. It says that seven of his former assistants or players at Iowa, where he coached for 20 years, are head coaches at Division I-A schools. Six others who worked or played under Fry for the Hawkeyes are offensive or defensive coordinators at I-A programs. Miami of Ohio has long claimed to be the "cradle of coaches," producing the likes of Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, Paul Brown and Jim Tressel. But with Fry's ever expanding coaching tree, Iowa at least deserves a spot in the nursery. MORE >>
Iowa Alumni Magazine “Coach”: http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/aug04/coach.html

Harris: More Students Seek Counseling
(New York Times, Oct. 26)

The college campus can be a stressful place. Surveys show that the number of college students with mental health problems of all types is steadily increasing. And some students find themselves emotionally at sea, struggling with problems from homesickness and relationship breakups to drug or alcohol abuse, severe depression or even thoughts of suicide. Experts say that, given the prevalence of emotional difficulties on campus, it pays to find out, before choosing a college, what mental health services are available. Most college mental health counselors, surveys show, also have noticed a sharp rise in the number of students with severe crises, like major depression, bipolar disorder and eating disorders and drug and alcohol problems severe enough to require hospitalization. Dr. MARK HARRIS, assistant director of counseling services at the University of Iowa, said his service saw 20 percent more students last month than in September 2003. And his colleagues at other universities are reporting similar increases. "What I'm picking up on the national list serve is that this has been the worst fall for emergencies in two decades," Dr. Harris said. "We're seeing a lot more anxiety disorders and panic attacks. With the global war on terrorism and terror alert codes, the world has become a pervasively more frightening place to live in." Less severe problems, like homesickness or roommate squabbles, can also be troubling enough to need treatment. MORE >>
University Counseling Service: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ucs/

Ciochon Comments On New Human Species Discovery
(Science, Oct. 29)

Archaeologists have made the startling discovery of a lost world of small archaic humans, who hunted dwarf elephants and Komodo dragons on an Indonesian island as recently as 18,000 years ago. The researchers uncovered the skull and skeleton of an adult human female with a brain the size of a small chimpanzee. This diminutive new species lived on the tropical island of Flores at the same time that modern humans inhabited nearby islands and were circling the globe. The leading hypothesis for H. floresiensis's origins is that it was descended from H. erectus, says paleoanthropologist Peter Brown. He theorizes that during thousands of years of isolation on the islands, the lineage shrank in a dwarfing process that has been observed in other island mammals. Eventually, these isolated little people evolved into a new species of human. "This shows that humans are not special cases: The evolutionary processes that shape life on Earth operate in the same way on humans," says paleoanthropologist RUSSELL CIOCHON of the University of Iowa in Iowa City. MORE >>
Anthropology: http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/

UI Ballet Master Basil Thompson Dies
(MSNBC.com, Nov. 2)

BASIL THOMPSON, an internationally acclaimed ballet master on sabbatical from the University of Iowa, died Tuesday in Lynchburg, Va., of sudden cardiac arrest. He was 67. Thompson, trained by the Sadlers Wells Ballet School in London, was a former soloist with the American Ballet Theatre in New York and former artistic director of the Milwaukee Ballet. He also was a former ballet master of the Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet, and only recently had reconstructed "Petrouchka" for the Joffrey's Nureyev Tribute. ALAN SENER, chairman of the University of Iowa dance department, said he had last seen Thompson at a performance of "Petrouchka" last week. "I sat one row behind his family, where I watched him dance all the parts from his seat," Sener said. He said the university had lost a tremendous asset in Thompson. "He provided a very valuable bridge between the professional field and academe. He was loved by the students and he provided an exuberance, a sense of vitality and a love of life, which he brought to both his teaching and his work on stage," Sener said. The Associated Press story appeared on the websites of NEW YORK NEWSDAY, the MIAMI HERALD, SEATTLE POST-INTELLEGENCER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE and numerous others. MORE >>
Department of Dance: http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/

Filmmaker Nicholas Meyer Focuses On Iowa Connection
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President Skorton Delivers Keynote Address On ‘Engagement’
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