January

A paper by economics faculty members Nathan Savin and Ignacio Lobato, "Real and Spurious Long Memory Properties of Stock Market Data," is chosen as the invited address of the Journal of Business Economics and Statistics.

UIHC's Department of Nursing and Patient Care Services receives the International Research Utilization Award from Sigma Theta Tau International.

Joel N. Kline, assistant professor of internal medicine, receives the American College of Chest Physicians' Young Investigator Award.

Tracy Davis, a member of the Campus Programs and Student Activities staff, wins two national prizes for his dissertation: the Melven D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the Burns B. Crookston Doctoral Research Award from the American College Personnel Association.

Professor Bob Boynton, political science, wins the Grand Prize in Microsoft's Innovations in Higher Education Challenge for "Online at Iowa," a virtual tour of campus and University programs.

February

Ed Folsom, professor of English, presents the 15th annual Presidential Lecture, "What Do We Represent? Walt Whitman, Representative Democracy, and Democratic Representation," also available (with illustrations) on the University Libraries' web site: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/info.html

Professor Steve Duck, chair of the Department of Communication Studies, wins the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Network on Personal Relationships.

Creative writing professor Marilynne Robinson receives a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living award from the American Academy of Arts.

Professor Jeffrey Murray, pediatrics, wins the Society of Pediatric Research's E. Mead Johnson Award.

Undergraduates Brad Ketels, Brandon Miller, Tom Nagle, Jason Smith, and Steve Suarez take first place in the 1998 Steel Bridge Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers at its upper Midwest regional conference. The UI team makes a clean sweep by finishing first in all six judging categories.

The University's audiology program is ranked Number One and the speech/language pathology program Number Three in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

Professors John R. Soloski and Gilbert Cranberg, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Professor Randall P. Bezanson, College of Law, win a major grant from the Open Society in support of The University of Iowa Newspaper Research Project.

March

Professors Edwin M. Stone, ophthalmology; Arthur M. Kreig, internal medicine; and Mary E. Wilson, internal medicine and microbiology, are elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

The University breaks ground for a new building in the Biological Sciences complex.

UI senior Tony Mirchandani appears on the cover of Inc. for his achievement in developing a Web-based auto-brokerage company as part of the University's innovative Technological Entrepreneurship Program, a collaboration between the colleges of Business Administration and Engineering.

Krishnan B. Chandran, professor of biomedical engineering, receives a Special Opportunity Award from the Whitaker Foundation for collaborative research with the College of Medicine on cardiovascular image analysis.

Jeffrey B. Bishop, assistive technology specialist in Information Technology Services, receives a NASA Small Business Innovation Research grant to study the feasibility of a driver-alert miniature videocam alarm.

Graduate student Sanjukta Paul receives an Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.

Undergraduate David Sosnouski wins a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for his work in chemistry.

April

A piece by Cecil Slaughter, M.F.A. student in choreography, is named a finalist in the American College Dance Festival Association's competition at the Kennedy Center; and Slaughter is nominated for Student Choreographer of the Year.

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