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Powwow now The 12th annual University of Iowa Powwow—a gathering of Native American dance, arts, and crafts—will take place April 6-8 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Powwow participants will compete for more than $18,000 in prize money. Native American vendors will display and sell their work, and American Indian food favorites including fry bread, Indian tacos, and traditional stews will be for sale. Doors open at 5 p.m. on April 6, 11 a.m. on April 7, and 11 a.m. on April 8. For more information, including ticket prices, visit the Powwow web site at www.uiowa.edu/~aisa/powwow. Photo by Rex Bavousett.

Healthy news from UI Wellness

In September 2000, UI Wellness began a new program, Wellness Heroes, in which staff had the opportunity to recognize their co-workers who help them live healthier lives.

Health through Humor was the topic for initiation of the program. A healthy sense of humor helps prevent stressful situations from turning into physical or psychological problems. Sixteen nominations were received of people who lift the spirits of the workplace through good humor.

Twenty-one nominations were received in January for Energized through Exercise. These were people who made a commitment to being active to improve their physical as well as mental health and thus have had a positive effect on those around them.

Nominations for Rejuvenation will be accepted April 2-12 and Optimism will be accepted July 2-12. Nominations for Wellness Heroes are accepted only during the specified periods. Names of past nominees and nomination forms will be available at the UI Wellness web site www.uiowa.edu/~hrpersvc/wellness/heros.html on the appropriate dates.



Sexual assault awareness rally to be held

As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, several campus and community women’s organizations will cosponsor the annual Take Back the Night march and rally, beginning at 7 p.m., April 18 in College Green Park.

The event will include speakers, music, a march, and opportunities for survivors of sexual violence to address participants.

Take Back the Night rallies and marches are held in many communities throughout the United States as an expression of solidarity with, and support for, survivors and victims of violence, especially sexual violence, and their loved ones. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Women’s Resource and Action Center at (33)5-1486.



Power tools anyone can use

Our personal communication style leaves an indelible impression on everything we say, like an individual fingerprint. What kind of mark are you leaving on others? Find out (and discover powerful techniques for responding to communication challenges) at the How to Communicate with Confidence and Credibility seminar on April 12. Call Staff Development soon, at (33)5-2687, for registration information.



Regents approve new center

On March 21, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa unanimously approved a UI proposal to establish a Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center. Jeffrey C. Murray, professor of pediatrics, will be the center’s director.

The center will bring together researchers from many departments in the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, as well as faculty from the Colleges of Public Health, Nursing, and Liberal Arts, to investigate craniofacial anomalies such as cleft lip or cleft palate. This research focus makes the center unique in the state.

Murray said, in a recent interview, that craniofacial anomalies represent a significant problem. According to Murray, each week in Iowa three babies are born with some type of craniofacial anomaly.

A large portion of the funding for the center will come from the National Institutes of Health, which has funded craniofacial research at the University for more than 35 years.



Gift creates new law scholarships

A $250,000 gift to the University of Iowa College of Law and the Iowa Law School Foundation will establish two student scholarship funds. The gift is from 1957 law graduate Mark W. Putney of Reno, Nev., and Carefree, Ariz.

The first scholarship has been named the Ray Ann Putney Law Scholarship, honoring Putney’s wife, who died in February 2000. The merit-based scholarship will be awarded to a deserving first-, second-, or third-year female law student. A second scholarship, to aid students demonstrating financial need, has been named the Mark W. Putney Law Scholarship.

The Putney gift is part of the Iowa Law School Endowment Campaign for the 21st Century, which continues to progress toward its $25 million goal.



Art faculty exhibit work

Faculty Exhibition 2001, the School of Art and Art History’s 18th biennial exhibition of work by studio faculty, will be on view in the UI Museum of Art from April 7 through June 24.

An opening reception for the exhibition will be at 7:30 p.m., April 6 in the Museum of Art.

For the 2001 faculty exhibition, several of the museum’s galleries will be installed with art objects selected by faculty members to represent the best of their recent work. These works represent media taught in the School of Art and Art History, including printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, metalsmithing, jewelry, design, papermaking, and intermedia.



Chemist to lecture

Karl E. Wieghardt, professor of chemistry and managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry, Mulheim, Germany, will visit the University as an Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor April 9-11.

His free, public lecture on "Essential ultratrace elements—What do we need them for?" will be presented at 3:30 p.m., April 9 in Lecture Room 2 of Van Allen Hall. A reception in Room S401 of the John Pappajohn Business Building will follow the talk.

He will also lecture on April 10 and April 11. See the lecture listings on fyi’s page 6 for information.

Wieghardt is an international leader in the field of bioinorganic chemistry (the role of metals and other elements in biological chemistry), with numerous successes in the synthesis of coordination compounds that model the active sites of metal-containing enzymes.



Corrections

In the March 23 issue of fyi:

• Production credit for a new interactive video feature on bird flight at the Hageboeck Hall of Birds should have been given to the University Video Center.
  
  
• The article on campus tours should have said that more than half the high-school students who visit Iowa in person choose to apply for admission.

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