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Volume 38, No. 6 |
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Deaths |
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Ph.D. Thesis Defenses |
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Pubs. and Creations |
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Coffee and Conversation |
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Committee seeks concerns, suggestions on campuswide diversity issues |
"Quote.....Endquote"
"There’s a lot of recoiling from the idea of politics as usual." Fred Antczak, associate dean of academic programs in the College of Liberal Arts, explaining why this presidential campaign has featured relatively little negative advertising (Hartford Courant, Aug. 25).
"I’ll have to drive the tub to New York." Charlotte Adams, assistant professor of dance, exemplifying why, if your dance company has been invited to perform in the Big Apple, it might be wise to consider leaving large bathroom fixtures out of the choreography (Tucson Weekly, Sept. 27).
"Marriage seems to be a lot better for men than it is for women." Margaret F. Brinig, professor of law, summing up the results of her research on why two-thirds of divorce filers are women (Redbook, Oct. 2000).
"Because we are right there with them, we really have a pretty good sense first-hand of how people are doing." Nancy Williams, assistant professor (clinical) of psychiatry, noting the value of Iowa’s Assertive Community Treatment Program, which sends health-care professionals out to visit people with serious mental illness in their homes (Des Moines Register, Oct. 23).
"There has been about 20 to 30 years of controversy." Amitava Bhattacharjee, professor of physics and astronomy, looking at recent discoveries in which theoretical predictions of the behavior of magnetic fields have finally caught up with the observed behavior of these fields in space (The New York Times, Oct. 24).
"We rely on the truthfulness of the employee." Sheldon Kurtz, professor of law and member of the Funded Retirement and Insurance Committee, backing the University’s policy of asking faculty to name their domestic partners on benefit forms but not requiring any further confirmation of the relationship (Des Moines Register, Oct. 24).
"I doubt if any politicians or the media really understand what a standardized test really tests." Larry Bartlett, professor of education administration, hoping that Iowa does not jump on the bandwagon of using high-stakes tests to determine whether students are promoted to the next level (Iowa City Gazette, Oct. 24).
"From algae to whales, touch is one of the most basic forms of sensory perception, yet no one knows about this process in mammals. It’s a major part of how we perceive the environment." Maggie Price, assistant research scientist in internal medicine, celebrating her team’s recent discovery of a protein that plays a key role in the sense of touch (Iowa City Press-Citizen, Oct. 26).
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