Exhibitor Schedule

Friday, August 14, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.:

Gross Anatomy- UI Carver College of Medicine
Explore the UI Carver College of Medicine Junior Mini Medical School program UI Gross Anatomy, an interactive program featuring human specimens and a video showcasing four medical procedures done at the University of Iowa. Students are given the opportunity to wear a future medical student white lab coat, listen to their heart with a stethoscope, touch real human organs and get their picture taken as they explore UI Gross Anatomy.

Saturday, August 15, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.:
How Do You Measure Up? – Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Iowa ranks 45th in the consumption of the five fruit and vegetable servings that are daily recommended, yet this is one of the most important ways to reduce the risk of diseases like cancer. Fair participants will learn how fruits and vegetables reduce their risk, the recommended servings for each age group, and how to easily incorporate these into their daily diet.

Saturday, Aug. 15, 2-9 p.m.
Reducing Your Cancer Risk – Iowa Cancer Consortium
Stop by to learn more about reducing your cancer risk. The Iowa Cancer Consortium is a partnership of over 170 member volunteers representing over 60 organizations from around the state working together to reduce the burden of cancer in Iowa.  The consortium implements projects related to reducing cancer risk, earlier detection, improving treatment options, enhancing survivorship and more rapid movement of researching findings into the community.

Sunday, August 16, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.:
“Fun with Pharmacy,” University of Iowa College of Pharmacy – American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP)
At “Fun with Pharmacy,” visitors can learn about two programs, Operation Diabetes and Heartburn Awareness. Operation Diabetes, sponsored by Rite Aid, is a promotional campaign designed to increase awareness of diabetes and the dangers associated with the disease, provide glucose screening and monitoring, and promote pharmaceutical care in the community.  Our goal is not to diagnose diabetes, but rather to provide information to the public in order for them to become more knowledgeable about the disease and to be able to recognize signs and symptoms of diabetes. Heartburn Awareness offers education about acid reflux , including the signs and symptoms and how to monitor it effectively. Heartburn is extremely common and many times not easy to deal with.

Monday, August 17, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.:
Assistive Technology - Iowa Center for Assistive Technology Education and Research (ICATER), College of Education
In the assistive technology exhibit, fairgoers will see demonstrations of some of the cutting-edge technology being used in educational settings to help students with disabilities access educational opportunities. Visitors will experience what it is like to use a head controlled mouse and see demonstrations of speech recognition software.

Tuesday, August 18, 9 a.m.-7 p.m:
Fossils!, Department of Geoscience/Paleontology Repository/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Discover Iowa’s fossils in your own back yard. Find out what fossils have been discovered in Iowa and learn to identify them. Try your hand at paleontology and hunt for fossils to take home. See some of the fossils discovered after the 2008 flood at the Devonian Fossil Gorge.

Wednesday, August 19, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.:
University Hygienic Laboratory ‘Knock! Knock! Who’s There?’
"Knock! Knock!" "Who's there?" is based on the familiar joke format, but shares information about public health in a fun and interactive way. The display consists of a series of small doors.  A question is printed on the outside of the door, and the answer is revealed when the door is opened.

Thursday, August 20, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m:
AHEC Can Connect You, College of Nursing
Iowa Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) increase access to primary health care for underrepresented and underserved populations through health career recruitment programs in underserved rural and urban areas. AHEC Centers serve 33 counties in southern Iowa. Participants in this exhibit can play a spin board game. Children will spin the wheel and try to name the health care professional in the picture on the space of the board. There will also be beach balls with questions on them. Participants catch the ball and then answer the health-related question under their left thumb. Bookmarks, pens, tattoos, coloring books, DVDs and more will be available.

Friday, August 21, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m:
Iowa’s Green Energy, College of Engineering
To gain a greater understanding of Iowa’s changing economic picture, the UI College of Engineering will demonstrate how wind turbines produce alternative energy and their growing usage in the state. Participants will be able to construct their own wind turbine blades and measure how much power they would generate. Visitors will also get a chance to experience the new effective alternative fuel produced from oat hulls, based on successful tests at the UI Power Plant. In 2002, the UI Power Plant and Quaker Oats cereal manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids partnered to create the UI's Biomass Fuel project as a way to cut energy costs and reduce harmful emissions by burning oat hulls.

Saturday, August 22, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m:
Better Health and Preventing Injury, UI College of Public Health
“Public Health Putt-Putt,” incorporating a golf-putting contest, will be a fun, interactive game that helps educate and inform fairgoers about the many ways – often unnoticed – that public health enhances everyday life. The College of Public Health will mark its 10th Anniversary during the 2009-10 academic year, celebrating a decade of promoting better health and preventing injury and illness in Iowa.

Saturday, August 22, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
Polymers in Our Lives, UI Department of Chemistry
We encounter polymers every day and rarely think about them or why they are useful. The Department of Chemistry will show how several polymers, nylon, Teflon, polacyrlamides and others are made and their interesting properties. There are good reasons why cookware is coated with Teflon, and UI Department of Chemistry staff will explain it. In addition, there will be hands-on demonstrations for children of all ages including “adult children.”

Sunday, August 23, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m:
Save Our Stuff, University of Iowa Collections Coalition
The University of Iowa Collections Coalition (UICC) exhibit will hold demonstrations and mock disasters with various types of collections (books, photos, textiles, metal and more) to show how each material type is taken care of by collections professionals. Examples of items rescued from the floods of 2008 and preserved by UICC members will be on display. The exhibit will also provide an update on the status of UI collections following last year’s floods. Informational handouts and resources will be available to help learn more about how to care for your own collections and preserve them for the future.