UI First-year Honors Class Sets New Record

This fall's largest first-year class in University of Iowa history includes 642 honors students, or just over 15 percent of the class, a new record unto itself, said UI Executive Vice President and Provost Michael J. Hogan.
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UI Alumni Association, Foundation Boards Welcome New Leadership
 
The University of Iowa Alumni Association's and Foundation’s boards of directors recently welcomed new members. The Alumni Association have a new chairperson, chair-elect, and five other members — including Coralville City Administrator Kelly Hayworth and Channel 7 news anchor Ron Steele — to begin their terms of service this fall. The Foundation board re-elected Charles M. Kierscht to another year as chair, elected four new members, and celebrated the Foundation’s 50th anniversary.
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Wall Street Journal Ranks Tippie MBA Program

For the second year in a row, a Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters has ranked the University of Iowa's Tippie MBA Program as one of the top 20 regional MBA programs in the country. Tippie was ranked 16th in the Journal's regional rankings this year, the same position as last year. More >>
Tippie School of Management MBA Program: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/mba/

Engineer Receives $1.98 Million NIH Grant To Develop Biomechanics Toolkit

A researcher in the University of Iowa College of Engineering has been awarded a four-year, $1.98 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health to develop a software toolkit to help physicians better understand the behavior of human bones and joints. More >>
Center for Computer Aided Design: http://www.ccad.uiowa.edu/
UIHC Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/orthopaedicsurgery/index.html

UI's Old Capitol And Art Building West Projects Win AIA Honors

Two University of Iowa building projects received Honor Awards in 2006 from the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The projects, the Old Capitol restoration project and the new Art Building West, were recognized at the 2006 AIA Iowa Convention on Sept. 29. More >>
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Old Capitol Museum: http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/fire/fire_updates.html

UI Receives Cardiac Care, Bariatric Surgery Distinctions

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa named University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care and a Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric (weight loss) Surgery. More >>
UI Heart and Vascular Care: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/uiheartcare/index.html

UI Teams Up With Cubs' Star, Celtics' Owner To Fight Eye Disease

At a news conference Sept. 29 in Chicago, Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee announced his partnership with Boston Celtics CEO and co-owner Wyc Grousbeck and the Carver Nonprofit Genetic Testing Laboratory at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine to combat Leber congenital amaurosis, an important cause of genetic blindness in children. More >>
Make A Gift Online For Project 3000: http://www.givetoiowa.org/project3000
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Ponseti Association Named For Clubfoot Treatment Pioneer

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa at its meeting Sept. 27 in Cedar Falls approved the naming of a recently formed international association based at the University of Iowa dedicated to advancing the work a UI faculty member and world-renowned pioneer in the treatment of clubfoot. The Ponseti International Association for the Advancement of Clubfoot Treatment is named after Ignacio Ponseti, M.D., professor emeritus of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. More >>
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‘A Healing Touch,’ Iowa Alumni Magazine: http://www.iowalum.com/magazine/feb03/exclusive/ponseti.html

Pamuk, Former UI Visiting Fellow, Wins 2006 Nobel Prize In Literature

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Istanbul-born novelist Orhan Pamuk, a veteran of the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP). More >>
International Writing Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/

UI Writers' Workshop Schaeffer Library Will Be Dedicated Oct. 20

The Glenn Schaeffer Library and Archive addition to the Dey House, home of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will be dedicated in a free, public event at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20. More >>
Writers’ Workshop: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/

Wang Co-Authored Advertising Study
(U.S.News and World Report, Oct. 5)

Companies pay top dollar to get advertisements in "premium" spots near the end of TV programs. But that system may not work so well after all. A new study finds that the more consumers are absorbed in the narrative flow of a story, the more likely they are to resent the ads that disrupt it. A new study in the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research shows that the more consumers are absorbed in the narrative flow of a story-a process known as "transportation"-the less likely they are to respond positively to advertisements. "Media create the audience for most advertising. Consumers come to a medium for its content," explains Bobby Calder of the Kellogg School of Management and JING WANG of the University of Iowa. "If the ad interrupts the transportation experience, this in itself creates a negative experience associated with the ad."
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Tippie College of Business: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/

Soldiers' Votes Could Be At Risk
(St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sept. 28)

Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas. Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud. During the next six weeks, thousands of service members are expected to fax or e-mail ballots over international communications networks that are susceptible to interception and tampering, putting those votes at risk. "I can't for the life of me figure out how the Defense Department decided this is the right thing to do," said DOUG JONES, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa. The newspaper is based in Minnesota. The article originally appeared in the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS. More >>
Computer Science: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/

UI Research On Racial Identity Is Cited
(Medical News Today, Sept. 18)

UI research has shown that racial identity is not as straightforward as is commonly assumed. In fact, adolescents from multi-racial families tend to shift their reported racial category as they move from early adolescence to young adulthood, and more adolescents changed their category over time than stayed the same. "We conducted a preliminary exploration of various social and psychological factors that influence this fluidity," said lead author STEVEN HITLIN, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology at the University of Iowa, "and found suggestive evidence that higher socioeconomic background and homogeneous racial environments led to a lower chance of adolescents switching racial identification over time." More >>
Department of Sociology: http://www.uiowa.edu/~soc/

Nickelsburg: Scrolls Affirmed OT Translations
(Post Intelligencer, Sept. 20)

When the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in a cave at Qumran in the late 1940s, the texts in many ways shook up our ideas of Christianity and the Bible. But the scrolls also attest to "the general reliability of the Hebrew text on which most modern translations have been made," agreed GEORGE NICKELSBURG, professor emeritus of religion at the University of Iowa and an Issaquah, Wash., resident. At the same time, Nickelsburg said, the discovery indicates that in "the centuries before the turn of the era, Jews saw the texts of scripture as a dynamic entity whose wording could be tweaked here and there so that it spoke relevantly to new times and changing circumstances," he said. The paper is based in Seattle. More >>
Department of Religious Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/~religion/

Body of Evidence

Anthropology students find new meaning in the phrase "body of knowledge" in a course that focuses on matters of life, death, and whodunit. As their professor says, forensic investigation is "not all Humvees, leather pants, and lattes." More >>

24 Things We Love about Kinnick

At 77 years old, Kinnick Stadium opened this fall following a classy 21st-century renovation that retained the venue’s historic feel. Enjoy a photo feature highlighting the updated stadium and read three previously unpublished letters that Iowa's Heisman winner Nile Kinnick, 40BA, wrote in 1943 following a visit to Boston. More >>

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