Bulletin Board

UI Opera Theater’s spring production will be Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, with Ann Cravero and Maria Gimenez as Hansel and Gretel. Performances will be at 8 p.m. April 28 and 2 p.m. April 30 at Hancher Auditorium. For tickets, contact Hancher Box Office at (33)5-1160. Photo by Rex Bavousett.

New employee assistance program

Faculty and Staff Services and UI Behavioral Health have entered a partnership to form the UI Integrated Employee Assistance Program. Other collaborating resources include the UIHC Chemical Dependency Center and UI Counseling Services. The partnership will offer employees a wider range of services, including enhanced work-site opportunities and supervisory consultation, multiple counseling sites and counselors, and 24-hour phone triage services.

Licensed and certified counselors are available to help with conflict and tension from job stress, interpersonal difficulties, and emotional concerns. Counselors also can address workplace conflicts, facilitate retreats, and help institute change in the workplace.

Confidential, free counseling services continue to be available for faculty, staff, and their families. For more information or referral, call (33)5-2085.


Cross-cultural understanding award

The Office of International Students and Scholars is accepting nominations for the Mariko Mizuhara Award for Cross-Cultural Understanding. One or two awards of $200 will be given in memory of Mariko Mizuhara, a Japanese music student who died unexpectedly in 1992.

Awards will be given to individuals or organizations for activities that took place between Jan. 1999 and April 2000. Nominations will be accepted until 4:30 pm, April 21. Return nominations to Ivory Lacy, 120 IC. For more information, contact Lacy at (33)5-0335 or iklacy@uiowa.edu.


Summer speech and hearing

Programs in speech, language, hearing, and reading will be offered this summer.

The Wendell Johnson Clinic is offering outpatient assistance programs to children and adults with speech, language, hearing, or reading problems from

May 15-July 31. Therapy and assessment services will be offered by UI graduate student-clinicians under the direct supervision of certified and licensed speech-language pathologists and audiologists. For information or to schedule an evaluation, contact the clinic at (33)5-8736.

There also will be a six-week summer speech, reading, and hearing program from June 26-Aug. 4 featuring individual sessions with licensed, certified staff. Treatment is available from 8am-4:30pm, Monday through Friday. Sessions can be once to four times per week for 30 to 60 minutes. For more information, contact Betty Merrifield at elizabeth-merrifield@uiowa.edu.


Marrow drive at IMU

Project Marrow seeks healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60 to register their bone marrow type. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to participate. The process requires filling out a few application forms and giving a small blood sample.

Currently, about 3.8 million people are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, a national registry that serves as a database for those seeking bone marrow matches. The Iowa Marrow Donor Program has 16,000 Iowans registered. One-third of all patients in need of a bone marrow transplant find a compatible donor in their families, leaving two-thirds to search for a match.

The drive will be held from 11am-6:30pm, April 19 in the Kirkwood Room of the IMU. Project Marrow is a student organization affiliated with the Iowa Marrow Donor Program at UIHC.

For more information, contact Laurie Robinson at (35)3-6347.


Wanted: staff excellence nominations

Each year, Staff Council assists the University in honoring outstanding staff by identifying UI staff members who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to the University community and nominating them for staff excellence awards.

The University of Iowa Staff Excellence Awards are open to all merit and professional & scientific staff. Contact Donna Hirst at LIB, (33)5-5033, donna-hirst@uiowa.edu.

The Board of Regents Staff Excellence Awards are open to all non-contract professional & scientific staff and non-contract merit supervisory exempt/confidential staff. Contact Anne Tanner at 100 OPL, (34)8-0018, anne-tanner@uiowa.edu.

The deadline for both awards is May 1. For more information, contact: Dave Martin, (33)5-3078; Charlie Eastham, (35)3-5435; Janice Quinn, (33)5-7524; Pat Kenner, (33)5-0505; Anne Tanner, (38)4-0018; Linda Crowley, (35)6-1671.