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UI awarded $33.8 million for clinical and translational research
The University of Iowa was recently named one of 12 academic health centers nationwide to receive a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year, $33.8 million award is the second-largest research award in UI history. The CTSA will support the university's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, formally approved by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa in December 2006, to expand and enhance "bench-to-bedside" research -- laboratory discoveries that lead to patient-based studies in clinical settings. More >>
Article from Medicine|Iowa| - From Bench-to-Bedside: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/ccom/alumni/magazine/archive
Related: Leaders break ground for Institute for Biomedical Discovery
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and Lt. Gov. Patty Judge recently joined University of Iowa officials, state leaders and others for a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site of the future UI Institute for Biomedical Discovery. The new facility, to be built next to the Carver Biomedical Research Building on the UI health sciences campus, will house laboratories and office space dedicated to cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research in the biomedical and life sciences, involving scientists from across the entire campus. More >>
UI engineer helps release endangered mussels into Mississippi River
A freshwater mussel once plentiful along the muddy bottom of the Mississippi River was nearly wiped out in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by a booming demand for buttons and luminescent pearls. On Oct. 2, a University of Iowa engineer began work to try to revive the population of the endangered Higgins Eye (Lampsilis Higginsii) pearly mussels. More >>
College of Engineering: http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/
UI researcher looks for better routes for relief supplies to disaster sites
Halfway through another hurricane season and so far, the United States has avoided a direct hit from a major storm. But emergency planners are always thinking about the best way to build a supply chain overnight to move food, water and medical supplies to helpless people in areas that may no longer have functioning roads, airports or port facilities. Ann Campbell, a professor of management sciences in the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business, thinks a lot about that question. More >>
Tippie College of Business Management Sciences: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/mansci/
UI engineers receive $1.36 million grant to improve rain, flood forecasting
Sometime during the spring of 2008, University of Iowa engineers likely will become the envy of local meteorologists. That is when engineers at the University of Iowa College of Engineering's renowned IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering center will acquire four mobile radar units, thanks to a $1.36 million grant recently received from the National Science Foundation to improve rainfall and flood forecasting. More >>
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering: http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/
Iowa Caucuses become part of University of Iowa curriculum
Recognizing that the Iowa Caucuses place Iowa at the epicenter of political activity every four years, several University of Iowa professors have developed courses that tie into the caucuses. Two courses focus directly on the caucuses, educating students on the history and impact of the caucuses and encouraging them to study the candidates and campaigns. Two others connect to the caucuses by exploring foreign policy issues important in the upcoming election and discussing how Hollywood versions of presidents influence voters' expectations of real presidents. More >>
Department of Political Science: http://www.polisci.uiowa.edu/
Microbiologist will train technicians in India to test for bird flu
Trisha Kreman, a public health microbiologist at the University Hygienic Laboratory, is one of five scientists selected to train laboratory technicians in India to test for H5N1 avian influenza, often referred to as bird flu. The team, which departed for India Oct. 2, consists of three clinicians from state public health laboratories and two from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More >>
University Hygienic Laboratory: http://www.uhl.uiowa.edu/
Linchpin gene may be useful target for new breast cancer therapies
University of Iowa researchers have discovered a gene that plays a linchpin role in the ability of breast cancer cells to respond to estrogen. The finding may lead to improved therapies for hormone-responsive breast cancers and may explain differences in the effectiveness of current treatments. More >>
Department of Surgery: http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/surgery/
UI joins national effort to improve quality of nursing home care
The Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence in the University of Iowa College of Nursing and its fellow Hartford Centers nationwide have been awarded a one-year, $500,000 planning grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies to develop a HCGNE Nursing Home Collaborative. Since the early 1950s, the nursing home industry in the United States has grown to serve millions of people in tens of thousands of facilities. More >>
Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/hartford/
Old Capitol Museum will present exhibit on history of creative writing at UI
Beginning with the first verse-making class in the late 1800s through recent Pulitzer Prize awardees, a new exhibition at the Old Capitol Museum will show how diverse personalities and historical circumstances combined to make the University of Iowa "The Writing University." The yearlong exhibition, "A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa," opens at the Old Capitol Museum Oct. 12. More >>
The Writing University: http://at-lamp.its.uiowa.edu/virtualwu/index.php/main/
Old Capitol Museum: http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/
Works by UI alumna Elizabeth Catlett will be at UI Museum of Art
"I Am: Prints by Elizabeth Catlett," a selection of 27 prints by the renowned artist and UI alumna, will be on view Oct. 20 through Jan. 6 at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Included in the exhibition is a portfolio of six prints inspired by the poem "For My People" by Margaret Walker, an alumna of the Iowa Writers' Workshop who was Catlett's roommate at the UI. More >>
Museum of Art Exhibitions: http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/exhibitions/
McLeod: copyright law being misused (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18)
In an op-ed piece, UI communications professor Kembrew Mcleod writes that copyright laws are too often being used inappropriately, especially when it comes to online forums, like YouTube. "When people make overreaching copyright claims just to censor speech they don't like, they are abusing the law," he writes. "The Supreme Court has consistently held that copyright was designed as a means to promote the dissemination of knowledge and creative expression, not to suppress it. Of course, fair use is not a free pass that allows anyone to copy and distribute anything they wish, but it was nevertheless designed to make sure intellectual copyright and the 1st Amendment can peacefully coexist." More >>
Kembrew McLeod Bio: http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/faculty/mcleod/index.html
Noonan comments on gender, income (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Sept. 18)
More than 30 years after women entered the workplace en masse, they're now out-enrolling men in colleges and out-earning their husbands in a fourth of American households in which both spouses work, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Society still casts men as breadwinners and women in supporting roles, though. Most often men and women will say they want an equa srelationship, "but when you look at behaviors, it doesn't pan out that way," said Mary Noonan, an associate sociology professor at the University of Iowa who specializes in work, family and gender. "It could be that they don't really want to deep down inside." This societal contradiction is something sociologists are just beginning to study, said Noonan. More >>
Department of Sociology: http://www.uiowa.edu/~soc/
UI professor: blood test may help treat panic disorder (ABC, Sept. 21)
Harriet Brown, 39, has struggled with panic disorder her entire life. "I remember going out to lunch with colleagues," she said. "On one level I was fine. On another level, I was absolutely freaking out. I had sweaty palms. It was like play life. That's what it's been like for me, having to carry on when I feel horrible inside." Dr. Robert Philibert is developing a blood test that can help people like Brown who live with panic disorder. The test, which measures the gene expression in lymphocytes in a person's blood, would enable doctors to determine whether a patient has the condition. "Panic disorder will no longer be a purely descriptive diagnosis, but as with cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome and other conditions, a diagnosis based on genetic information," explained Philibert, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. More >>
Department of Psychiatry: http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/psychiatry/index.html
Christensen quoted on prescription drugs (U.S.News & World Report, Sept. 29)
According to an August report by the National Council on Patient Information and Education, only about half of patients take their medications as prescribed, and the longer someone is on a drug, the more likely he is to start skipping doses. "Medicine is not set up to worry about what happens when people leave the doctor's office," says Alan Christensen, a psychologist at the University of Iowa who has researched adherence. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
Be remarkable profile: Sandy Boyd
If you live in Iowa, chances are good that Sandy Boyd has made your life better somehow. Maybe you were a University of Iowa student during his 12-year presidential tenure. Maybe your attorney was one of his students at the UI College of Law. Maybe you were enthralled by the Hall of Dinosaurs when your sixth grade class visited the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago during his presidency there. And if you've ever received a service from an Iowa nonprofit organization, then Sandy Boyd has certainly made a difference in your life. More >>
Going green: More UI students pursuing careers related to the environment
University of Iowa undergraduate Holly Moriarty helped develop a pilot program on campus that recycled 17 tons of residence hall cafeteria leftovers by turning them into rich compost. As a result, the university cut down on waste, area residents got better organic materials to grow their gardens, and Moriarty earned a great grade in her Sustainable Systems course. She also took another step closer to her overall goal: saving the world. It might sound like the unrealistic dream of a young idealist, but Moriarty is hardly alone. She is one of a growing number of college students at Iowa and around the world looking to turn their college degrees into jobs that benefit the environment. More >>
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