Think 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/BowlTour05.html

UI Announces New Economic Development Focus
 
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, University of Iowa officials announced a new economic development initiative called Iowa Centers for Enterprise: Business and Commercialization Services, an innovative program of technology transfer and new business development including new leadership, new ideas and new approaches to university-private sector partnerships. Read More >>

Ciochon, Grassian, Lin, Soll And Wu Elected 2005 AAAS Fellows
 
Five University of Iowa faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) have been awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Read More >>

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/

UI Awards More Than $100,000 In Grants For Year Of Public Engagement
 
The University of Iowa has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to UI faculty, staff and students who proposed projects to connect the university with the state of Iowa as part of the Year of Public Engagement. Read More >>

Year of Public Engagement: http://www1.uifoundation.org/redirect?url=http://www.ype.uiowa.edu/

Engineer Receives $290,250 NIH Grant To Model Human Bones, Joints
 
Nicole Grosland, assistant professor of biomechanical engineering and researcher at the Center for Computer Aided Design (CCAD) in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, has been awarded a two-year, $290,250 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop image-based models of human bones and joints that may one day assist surgeons. Read More >>

College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/

Murray, Sheffield Elected To Institute Of Medicine
 
Two University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine faculty members have been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Read More >>

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

Nursing Researchers Herr, Titler Receive $2.8 Million Grant
 
Keela Herr, Ph.D., professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, and Marita Titler, Ph.D., director of Research, Quality and Outcomes Management in the Department of Nursing and Patient Care Services at UI Hospitals and Clinics, are recipients of a $2.8 million National Cancer Institute grant to study ways to improve cancer pain management in older adults. Read More >>

Nursing Services and Patient Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/nursing/index.html

Culp, Everett And Thompson Named Fellows To American Academy Of Nursing
 
The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) will induct three UI College of Nursing faculty members as fellows: associate professors Kennith Culp and Linda Everett, and clinical professor Edward Thompson, will be formally inducted at an AAN banquet Nov. 12 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Read More >>

College of Nursing: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/

UI Alumna Brunson Wins Silver Prize In International Craft Competition
 
Metalsmith and University of Iowa alumna Alison Brunson received the Silver Prize in the Metalworks Catergory of the Fourth Cheongju International Craft Competition, a biennial competition held in Cheongju City, Korea. Read More >>

School of Art and Art History: http://www.art.uiowa.edu/

UI Museum Of Art Explores Invented 'Tradition' Nov. 5-March 12, 2006
 
The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) will present "Crafting Tradition: Oaxacan Wood Carvings," an exhibition that explores the economic and cultural impact of the recently invented "tradition" of painted wood carvings, Nov. 5 through March 12, 2006. Read More >>

Museum of Art: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/

Adams Notes Lack Of 'Clot-Buster' Use
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 15)
 
Since 1996, the clot-busting drug t-PA, which had been used for years to treat heart attacks, has been approved as an intravenous treatment for strokes. Studies show that patients who get the drug have much better odds of recovering without major disability. But because the drug can cause serious bleeding in the brain, in most cases it must be given within three hours of the onset of symptoms, far sooner than when most patients finally get to the hospital. As a result, fewer than 5 percent of stroke patients get t-PA. "It's sad," said HAROLD ADAMS, a professor of neurology at the University of Iowa and spokesman for the American Stroke Association. "Maybe it is a tragedy. I'm very frustrated." Read More >>

Department of Neurology: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/neurology/welcome/

Kuperman: Behavior Affects Age Of First Drink
(Consumer Affairs, Oct. 18)
 
Having a first alcoholic drink at the early age of 12, 13 or 14 might be influenced more by a child's tendency to do things like lie, steal or skip school than by a family history of alcohol dependency, according to findings by University of Iowa and other investigators. "We found, somewhat surprisingly, that having a family history of alcohol dependency or anti-social personality disorder does not relate to age of first drink. However, the number of conduct disorder symptoms a child has does relate to the age of first drink," said SAMUEL KUPERMAN, M.D., corresponding author and professor of psychiatry in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The same story appeared on the Web site of MEDPAGE TODAY. Read More >>

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

Van Voorhis: Women Are Aware Of Risks In Delaying Pregnancy
(The Times, Oct. 20)
 
Women who delay trying for a baby until their mid-thirties are well aware of the impact their decision might have on fertility and are not risking childlessness out of ignorance, scientists said yesterday. Research from a team at the University of Iowa has revealed that contrary to much medical opinion, women who wait longest before attempting to become mothers are in fact better informed about the effect of ageing on fertility than those who have children earlier in life. BRAD VAN VOORHIS, who led the study, said: "Remarkably, a good education and understanding of the risks of aging on fertility does not appear to translate into an urgency to conceive. This study does not support the idea that we can improve the incidence of infertility through education on the role of aging." The research, presented yesterday at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Conference in Montreal, comes amid growing medical concern that women have unrealistic ideas of their ability to postpone child-bearing until their careers become established. The newspaper is based in the U.K. Read More >>

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: http://obgyn.uihc.uiowa.edu/

Suls Team Finds People Have Elevated Sense Of Selves
(ABCNews.com, Nov. 9)
 
When it comes to knowing who we are, most of us aren't very good at it. In fact, we don't even know ourselves well enough to know that we don't know ourselves. That's the picture that emerges from the work of researchers David Dunning of Cornell, Chip Heath of Stanford and JERRY M. SULS of the University of Iowa. For some time now they have been studying a large body of research into self-evaluation, and much of it reveals that most of us aren't nearly as hot as we think we are. That can have very serious consequences, because if we don't know who we are, we could be endangering others as well as ourselves. An editorial accompanying a lengthy report on the research in Psychological Science in the Public Interest (published by the American Psychological Society) sums it up nicely. Some - if not most - of us are spinning through life "blissfully incompetent," because we have such an elevated view of our own abilities. Read More >>

Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/

The UI You Don’t Know

Iowa Alumni Magazine staffers throw open the windows on some unassuming, little-known campus gems. Read More >>

Mr. Viking

From humble beginnings to the heights of pro football, Fred Zamberletti is one of the NFL’s most respected athletic trainers. Read More >>

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