RVAP presents one-man
show
To kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the
Rape Victim Advocacy Program (RVAP) will present
You the Man, a one-man show addressing unhealthy
relationships, dating violence, and sexual assault,
at 7 p.m., April 5, in Clapp Recital Hall.
College and high school students and members of
the community are invited to attend. Admission is
free.
For more information about this event or other activities
during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, see www.uiowa.edu/~rvap or contact RVAP at (33)5-6001.
UI Press announces winners of 2004 short fiction
awards
The University of Iowa Press has announced the winners
of the 2004 Iowa short fiction awards.
Janet Desaulniers is the winner of the John Simmons
Short Fiction Award for What You’ve Been Missing.
Desaulniers, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
and a teacher in the MFA in Writing Program at the
Art Institute of Chicago, has been published in The
New Yorker, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares.
Merrill Feitell’s Here Beneath Low-Flying
Planes is the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
Feitell, who received an MFA from Columbia University,
has been published in Book Magazine, Glimmer
Train,
and Best New American Voices 2000.
The UI Press will celebrate the 35th anniversary
of the awards, which are administered through the
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, with the publication
in October of the 2004 winners.
Kidney research center accepting grant proposals
The UI O’Brien Kidney Research Center is accepting
applications for developmental research/pilot and
feasibility proposals.
Any investigator having an idea relating to kidney
function or disease that he or she wishes to test
is invited to submit an application to the center’s
director, John B. Stokes, at E300 GH or john-stokes@uiowa.edu.
Two projects will be selected for funding starting
June 1 or July 1. The application should be no longer
than eight single-spaced pages, including an abstract,
figures, narrative, and references. Budgets up to
$60,000 may be requested with justification. The
application deadline is April 15.
For more information, see the research
web site or
contact Stokes at (35)6-4409 or john-stokes@uiowa.edu.
ACE requests due April 11
Requests for Assessing the Classroom Environment
(ACE) course evaluation forms that include instructor-selected
items must be received at Evaluation and Examination
Service by April 11. After that date, only the standard
ACE forms will be available.
Requests for printing only of department-generated
course evaluation forms requires notice of at least
five working days. These orders will not be filled
after April 30.
Former Ireland president to deliver lecture
Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner
on Human Rights and the first female president of
Ireland, will deliver the 2004 UI College of Law
Levitt Lecture at 4 p.m., April 16, in the Second
Floor Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.
The lecture, titled “Human Rights and Ethical
Globalization,” is free and open to the public.
Robinson served as president of Ireland from 1990
to 1997 and U.N. High Commissioner from 1997 to 2002.
She currently heads a new project, the Ethical Globalization
Initiative, based at Columbia University and supported
by a consortium of international organizations.
Mini
Medical School to focus on aging
The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
will host this month a four-session Mini Medical
School course, Challenging the Traditional Experience
of Aging. Participants will learn about scientific
theories of aging, aging-related research, and strategies
and technologies used to slow the aging process.
The sessions will take place from 7 to 9 p.m., April
6, 13, 20, and 27, in Sahai Auditorium in the Medical
Education and Biomedical Research Facility. They
are free and open to the public, but attendance is
limited to the first 250 registrants.
For more information or to register, see www.medicine.uiowa.edu/minimedicalschool or
call (33)5-8886.
‘Magnet’ celebration
A hospital-wide celebration has been scheduled to
recognize the designation of the UI Hospitals and
Clinics as a “Magnet” facility for excellence
in nursing practice.
The celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m., April 2, on the main floor of Colloton Atrium.
Formal presentations will start at 12:30 p.m. Several
video and slide presentations will be shown, and
refreshments will be served.
For more information, e-mail shellee-laubersheimer@uiowa.edu.
Innovative
projects win awards for instructional computing
In the fall of 2001, the Academic Technologies Advisory
Council initiated a program to support innovative
applications of instructional computing that have
the potential to improve the education provided to
students throughout the University.
This year the council is supporting nine projects.
The recipients are:
• Gail Boldt and Kathryn
Whitmore, curriculum
and instruction, College of Education, will create
an archive of digital video for use in undergraduate
teacher education classrooms.
• G.R. Boynton, political science, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Edward
Shreeves,
University Libraries, will enhance the instruction
of undergraduates learning about governing feudal
England by utilizing the University’s multimedia
content management software (Digitool).
• Miriam Gilbert, English, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will create streaming video clips
from Shakespeare’s plays and make them more
widely accessible to students for viewing and study.
• Todd Ingram, College of Nursing, will produce
a DVD that will take undergraduate and graduate nursing
and other health care students on a virtual tour
of the Mental Health Institute in Independence, Iowa,
with commentary from professionals, staff, and patients.
• Jan Jensen, chemistry, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will develop a graphical user
interface to the molecular modeling program GAMESS,
to make it more accessible to chemistry students.
• Ramon Lawrence, computer science, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will build a web-based
portal that allows instructors to define and deploy
competitive programming projects.
• Marcy Rosenbaum, family medicine, Roy J.
and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, will develop
a web-based program on communication skills for third-year
medical students during clinical training.
• Lisa Troyer, sociology, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, will enhance social science education
by introducing laboratory components to a General
Education sociology course.
• Kee-Ho Yuen, art and art history, College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will provide students
with access to a 3-D printer that generates real-world
models based on computer-based models.
For more information, see www.its.uiowa.edu/at/atac/awards.html.
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