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UI awarded $33.8 million for clinical and translational research
The National Institutes of Health has selected the University of Iowa as one off 12 academic health centers nationwide to receive a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). 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 >>
Homecoming parade promises to be 'super'
Herky may have to share the skies during the upcoming University of Iowa homecoming celebration, whose theme this year is "Our Heroes are Hawkeyes." Brandon Routh, an Iowa alumnus, actor and star of the movie "Superman Returns," will be among the honored guests during the 2007 Homecoming Parade in Iowa City on Friday, Sept. 28. Jim Keane, who played at Iowa in 1941 and 1942 and enlisted in the Navy during World War II before playing for the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, will serve as grand marshal. Other featured guests include the 2007 Homecoming Court, Hawkeye Marching Band, Spirit Squad, and other organizations from across Eastern Iowa. More >>
Homecoming Reunion 2007: http://www.iowalum.com/reunions/hrw
Miss the Sept. 1 football game at Chicago's Soldier Field?
Find photos and video of the black-and-gold "invasion" of the Windy City for the Sept. 1 football match-up between the Hawkeyes and the Northern Illinois University Huskies — won handily, we might add, by Iowa — at http://www.iowalum.com/hawksinchicago
UI ranked 24th best U.S. public national university
The University of Iowa is the 24th best public national university in the country, according to the latest rankings published by the magazine U.S.News & World Report. The ranking places the UI in a tie with Purdue University and the University of Connecticut. More >>
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Fortune, Forbes surveys rank Tippie programs among best in country
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/august/082207tippieranking.html
UI sociologist: college rankings permeate decisions in higher education
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/september/090507rankings-research.html
Gift of $6 million will expand UI study-abroad opportunities
A $6 million gift to The University of Iowa Foundation will help many more UI students study abroad. The bequest, from the estate of Ann U. Morse of Fort Myers, Fla., endows the Ann Morse Study Abroad Scholarships.
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International Programs: http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/index.html
Law professor finds bankruptcy not a black mark to credit card companies
Contrary to conventional wisdom, filing for bankruptcy is not a black mark that will make it all but impossible to obtain future credit, according to new research by a University of Iowa law professor. In fact, the study by Katie Porter shows that people who have recently declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy are flooded with pre-screened credit card offers. More >>
College of Law: http://www.law.uiowa.edu/
UI Libraries freezer helps restore books
Don't expect to find pints of rocky road or French vanilla when you open the door to the ice cream freezer in University of Iowa main library. This freezer is filled with water-damaged books and is used to help restore them to the collection where they belong. More >>
Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/
Researchers: HIV misinformation online could have dire consequences
The Internet is serving as a fertile medium for "HIV denialists" to spread false ideas about HIV/AIDS, which could have terrible public health consequences, according to Tara Smith, Ph.D., University of Iowa assistant professor of epidemiology. More >>
Department of Epidemiology: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/epi/
UI doctors practice creativity as part of writing group
Several University of Iowa physicians are trying their hand at something other than practicing medicine. In an occasional break from their daily scientific fact-filled lives, they're indulging their creative sides. More >>
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Writer helps people with chronic illness regain power over their stories—and their lives http://www.uiowa.edu/be-remarkable/portfolio/people/bunn-a.html
Department of Internal Medicine: http://www.int-med.uiowa.edu/
Laboratory at UI plays major role in diagnosing cancer
The unique laboratory of Dr. David R. Soll at the University of Iowa is making a big footprint in the field of cancer research, thanks to a new agreement reached between Soll and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. More >>
Department of Biological Sciences: http://www.biology.uiowa.edu/
Essays in UI Press' 'After the Bell' explore the impact of school
"After the Bell," a collection of essays that explore the impact of school experiences, will became available from the University of Iowa Press
Sept. 3. More >>
University of Iowa Press: http://www.uiowapress.org/
Reading celebrates International Writing Program’s 40th anniversary
University of Iowa English faculty member David Hamilton celebrated the 40th anniversary of the International Writing Program with a reading of IWP writers' contributions to the Iowa Review Aug. 29 in the Prairie Lights bookstore in downtown Iowa City. The reading came at the beginning of the fall IWP residency, during which the UI is hosting writers from more than 30 countries. More >>
Listen (via Real Player) to Hamilton's reading by scrolling down to the Aug. 29 listing at http://wsui.uiowa.edu/prairie_lights.htm
International Writing Program: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/
Andrejevic weighs in on child exploitation debate
(LA Times, Aug. 17)
Just when Americans thought they had seen it all when it comes to reality television, CBS, the oldest-skewing network, has come up with a humdinger: "Kid Nation." For 40 days in April and May, CBS sent 40 children, ages 8 to 15, to a former ghost town in New Mexico to build a society from scratch. "To say that these kids aren't working is absurd," said MARK ANDREJEVIC, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa and author of "Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched." More >>
Department of Communication Studies: http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/
Hensley cites entrepreneurial program
(Entrepreneur Magazine, September 2007)
An article on interdisciplinary entrepreneurial programs begins, "Business students aren't the only ones learning about entrepreneurship these days. More colleges are encouraging students of every major -- from science and technology to humanities and the arts -- to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Programs like the one at the University of Iowa's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center give non-business majors a chance to sharpen their entrepreneurial skills. 'At last count, we had about 48 different majors from across our campus in the entrepreneurship program,' says DAVID HENSLEY, the center's executive director. 'In our classes, we'll have a biomedical engineering student next to a finance major next to a dance major, which makes it a pretty unique educational experience for all students.'" More >>
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center: http://www.iowajpec.org/
McMurray: children learn best when talked to
(Everett Herald, Aug. 20)
An editorial about a recent study by the University of Washington that questions whether “Baby Einstein” videos help toddlers learn more cites a University of Iowa professor who recently released an unsurprising assessment of how babies learn to talk: They start jabbering after they've mastered enough easy words to tackle more of the harder ones. Then a snowball effect happens, and the babies are talking like crazy. The key to reaching this "word spurt," says Professor BOB McMURRAY, is talking and reading to a child a lot. No videos required. The Herald is published in Washington. More >>
Department of Psychology: http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/
Olshansky discusses 'nocebo effect'
(The Times, Aug. 25)
The "nocebo effect" is the opposite of the placebo effect. Dr. BRIAN OLSHANSKY, who reported earlier this year on nocebo in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, says that patients who are anxious or depressed are more prone to suffer. So, too, are patients who are specifically asked if they are suffering adverse effects, which can send nocebo spiraling as high as 71 percent. This power of suggestion means that nocebo can often be triggered by poor bedside manners, says Olshansky, of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. "A cold, uncaring, disinterested and emotionless doctor will encourage a nocebo response," he says. "In contrast, a caring, empathetic physician fosters trust, strengthens beneficent patient expectations and elicits a strong placebo response. A compassionate, hands-on approach may be more valuable than any single medical therapy." The Times is published in London, UK. More >>
Hospitals & Clinics: http://www.uihealthcare.com/
Shopping for a new location, offices find home in downtown mall
Scott King likes to tell people that his office is in the shoe department. King, the director of the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS), is one of about 650 University of Iowa employees who have relocated in the past year and a half to University Capitol Centre, a centrally located space shared with the Old Capitol Town Center mall. "It's great to see the reactions when people come in," King says. "They can't believe our office is the same space where Younkers used to be."
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues/issues2007_v44/09102007/feature1.html
Office of International Students and Scholars: http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/oiss/
UI-supported exhibit gives new meaning to 'gross' anatomy
You may not care to know that the average person passes roughly a quart of gas each day. But there's a good chance your 7-year-old will delight in learning this foul fact about human biology. That, of course, is the genius behind the traveling exhibit, "Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body." The 6,000-square-foot exhibit, based on a book of the same title, features more than 20 animatronic displays and interactive games to explore many questions people have about the human body but are too refined to ask. From Sept. 29 to Jan. 6, the exhibit will be featured at the Science Center of Iowa (SCI) in Des Moines, thanks to a first-of-its-kind partnership between the center and the University of Iowa Children's Hospital. Additionally, the UI's Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine are locally sponsoring the film "The Human Body" at the SCI Blank IMAX Dome Theater, and on Oct. 20 the children's hospital, Carver College of Medicine and UI Alumni Association will host a UI Day at the SCI.
Carver College of Medicine:
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/CCOM/Features/sci/index.html
Science Center of Iowa: http://www.sciowa.org/
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