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May 4, 2001
Volume 38, No. 16

• Coordinating commencement: Leaving nothing to (pomp and) circumstance

• Arkema faces challenging term

• University never runs out of steam thanks to this underground crew

• Employee gifts of time, money benefit local groups

• InSite: Allergy roundup

• "Quote....Endquote"

• News Briefs

• Arts and Sciences academy recognizes Iowa's Coleman

• University announces faculty promotions, tenure

• Bulletin Board

• Calendar

• Deaths

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Offices and Awards

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Ph.D. Thesis Defenses

• Pubs. and Creations

• Plan to attend the fifth annual Staff Celebration Day

• Staff eligible for Mary Jo Small Fellowship

TIAA Cref Unit Values

Staff Development Courses

The University of Iowa Homepage

"Quote....Endquote"

"More kids are hurt by walking across the street than by insecticides." Miles M. Weinberger, professor of pediatrics, questioning the wisdom of a new line of "natural" pesticides (The Tennessean, March 6).

"I don’t think science just turns on a sexy name. But it helps." E. Peter Greenberg, professor of microbiology, admiring the term "quorum sensing" coined by collaborator Stephen Winans for the substance produced by bacteria to signal each other that a large group is nearby (The Red Herring, March 20).

"Wintertime in Iowa, snowstorms, ice storms and more than 1,000 visitors on a single weekend. It was something fantastic." Pamela Trimpe, curator in the Museum of Art, taking stock of the enthusiastic turnout for the visiting Smithsonian exhibit Lure of the West (The New York Times, April 18).

"Humans spread early to Asia." Russell Ciochon, professor of anthropology, finding new evidence that Homo erectus traveled out of Africa to the Indonesian archipelago at least 1.5 million years ago, much earlier than had previously been believed (Albuquerque Journal, April 20).

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