Reduced-cost health
services offered
Health and wellness services are available to UI
employees at a 75 percent reduced fee through the
Pilot Wellness Program administered by UI Wellness
and UI Benefits.
For more information, visit the UI Wellness web
site at www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/wellness/Pilot/index.shtml.
For questions not covered on the web site, please
call Joni Troester at UI Wellness, (33)5-2692.
Staff members: Apply now for committees
The deadline for applying for University Charter
Committee staff openings is March 18.
Committees with openings for staff members include
Campus Planning, Council on Teaching, Diversity Committee,
Faculty-Staff Parking Appeals, Family Issues, Funded
Retirement and Insurance, Hancher Auditorium, Human
Rights, Parking and Transportation, Presidential
Committee on Athletics, Recreational Services, and
University Safety and Security.
Terms will begin in September 2005. Applications
and individual committee information are available
on the Staff Council web site at www.uiowa.edu/~stafcnsl.
Nominations sought for faculty awards
Nominations are being accepted for the Marion L.
Huit and James N. Murray Faculty Awards.
The Huit award is presented to a tenured faculty
member and the Murray award honors an untenured faculty
member. Any member of the UI community may submit
a nomination. Collaboration by students and faculty
is encouraged.
Nomination forms are available on the Honors Program
web site at www.uiowa.edu/~honors. All forms are
due by March 24 at 420 BHC. The awards will be presented
at the annual Finkbine Dinner on April 26. Omicron
Delta Kappa, the national leadership society, and
the Mortar Board honor society sponsor the awards.
UI Press picks fiction winners
The University of Iowa Press announced in February
the winners of the 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Awards.
Anthony Varallo won the John Simmons Short Fiction
Award for his collection This Day in History.
Douglas Trevor won the Iowa Short Fiction Award
for The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space.
Varallo is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Trevor is an assistant professor of English at The
University of Iowa.
UI Press has slated publication of the winning collections
for October 2005.
Nominate your colleagues
Here’s your chance to recognize coworkers
or teams who demonstrate initiative and innovation
that improves the workplace. Nominate them for the
Improving Our Workplace Award (IOWA).
IOWA is a campus-wide program to recognize staff
who are making significant improvements in University
processes, services, nd the workplace environment.
The IOWA review committee will accept nominations
for teams and individuals until March 15. Information
and forms are available on the web site, www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/IOWA.
Foundation reports record year
The University of Iowa and University of Iowa Foundation
marked a record year in private support in 2004,
with outright gifts passing the $100 million mark
for the first time.
The total combined outright and future gift commitments
in 2004 reached $177.9 million, more than 15 percent
above the $154.4 million generated in 2003.
“This is clearly an indication that the University’s
alumni and friends believe in the important work
of students and faculty members all across campus,
and are strongly supportive of the services the University
provides to the people of the state of Iowa and beyond,” says
Michael New, UI Foundation president.
As of Feb. 1, 2004, campaign gift commitments to
the Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign totaled
$849 million, leaving approximately $151 million
to raise
during the campaign’s final year.
College of Dentistry opens pediatric clinic in Muscatine
College of Dentistry faculty and students were on
hand for a Feb. 15 ribbon-cutting ceremony and open
house at a new Muscatine dentistry clinic for children.
The Muscatine Pediatric Dentistry clinic opened Jan.
4 on the lower level of the Muscatine Center for
Social Action (MCSA) building at 312 Iowa Ave.
Staffed by College of Dentistry faculty members
and senior UI dentistry students, the clinic is open
on Tuesdays and treats Muscatine and Louisa county
children up to12 years old.
The new clinic creates a win-win situation for both
the community and the University, says Michael Kanellis,
head of pediatric dentistry in the College of Dentisty.
Kanellis notes that children from low-income families
who do not have dental insurance or cannot afford
basic dental services will get the care they need,
and UI dentistry students will gain experience treating
pediatric patients.
Dental treatment provided at the
clinic is billed as Medicaid fees, which are significantly
lower than
private practice fees. The clinic accepts Medicaid,
Title XIX, Hawk-I, and traditional dental insurance,
and also will work with families to arrange payment
plans.
Readers win!
We happen to think everyone who reads fyi is a winner,
and we extend a special thanks to everyone who participated
in our readership survey last fall.
We also would like to extend our congratulations
to three readers in particular who are the lucky
winners of the fyi readership survey drawing. Everyone
who returned a survey response by Oct. 15 was eligible
for a drawing for one of three $30 University Bookstore
gift certificates.
Winners of the drawing are Rebecca Hanson, program
assistant in admissions; Barbara Khal, program consultant
in the Center for Disabilities and Development; and
Elizabeth Nockunas Luers, clerk in University of
Iowa Hospitals and Clinics business office.
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