Radio activity Ben Kieffer, host of WSUI’s Iowa Talks Live from the Java House, questions guests Gordon Mennenga, Kate Aspengren, and Marilyn Abildskov—all of whom are teachers in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival—during a June 27 broadcast. Singer-songwriter Bob Hillman, right, provided original music. The program is broadcast live from the Java House at 10 a.m. on Fridays. Upcoming shows will feature a preview of the Iowa City Jazz Festival, a chat with UI president David Skorton, and a discussion on gender identity. For more information, visit http://wsui.uiowa.edu/iowa_talks.htm. Photo by Tom Jorgensen.

Sneak a peek at the UI state fair booth

Faculty, staff, students, alumni, exhibitors, volunteers, and anyone else associated with the University’s state fair effort this year are invited to a sneak preview of the UI booth from 2 to 4:30 p.m., July 29, at Gilcrest Jewett Lumber Co. (the former Payless-Cashways building), 758 22nd Ave., Coralville. Refreshments will be served.

Just prior to this year’s fair, which runs Aug. 7-17, the booth will be transported to the fairgrounds in Des Moines and reassembled in the Varied Industries Building.

For more information, contact George McCrory at (38)4-0012 or visit www.uiowa.edu/statefair.

Center on Aging adds new features to web site

Staff members at the Center on Aging have pulled together information on aging-related issues, health care, and other services in Iowa and published it on the center’s web site at www.uiowa.edu/~centrage.

“We put this information together in one place for consumers and professionals, because it was not in one easily accessible location,” says Lori Benz, program associate in the center and one of the web site managers. “Some of the features are new—created in response to inquiries we were getting.”

Here are some of the site’s highlights:

• “Find Geriatricians” helps people find licensed physicians in Iowa who earned a certificate of added qualification in geriatrics through their respective medical boards.

• “State-by-State Resource Locator” connects users to geriatric resources in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

• “Healthcare Info” includes information about all the geriatric clinical services offered at the University.

• “Clinical Trials” includes links for medical providers, patients, and relatives of older people whose medical problems might be addressed by a study involving older adults at the University.

• “Publications” offers downloadable files that address difficult issues faced by older people and their caregivers.

• “Course Offerings” lists all the aging-related courses and specializations offered at Iowa.

• “For Professionals” provides resources for clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. It includes an expanded searchable database of geriatric assessment tools.

Hydraulics lab renamed for UI alum and philanthropist Stanley

The University’s hydraulics laboratory building has been renamed the C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory for the UI graduate and prominent Iowa industrialist and philanthropist who died in 1984. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved the renaming in May.

The new campus mail acronym for the building, which houses the College of Engineering’s IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering, will be SHL.

The renaming is a tribute to Stanley’s wide-ranging contributions to the University during his lifetime and to the structure that now bears his name, a building he helped “draft” in the late 1920s. Stanley began work on the design and construction of a three-story hydraulics laboratory (what is now the north wing of the building) following his graduation from Iowa in 1926.

The renaming also recognizes nearly $1 million in commitments to the Hydraulics Laboratory Renovation Project from Stanley’s family, friends, and many business colleagues in the Muscatine community and beyond.

New ID cards are coming soon

Faculty, staff, and students will be getting new ID cards this fall. The cards incorporate a new numbering system that provides better security against identity theft, as well as the new UI logo and logotype in the card design.

New students are being issued the cards at orientation sessions. Continuing students, staff, and faculty will be able to obtain new cards beginning in the fall, according to Laurie Lentz of the UI Business Office. ID cards are used for identity badges, charging meals to University accounts, and various other purposes.

The old cards contain social security numbers in the magnetic stripe, Lentz says, and the new ones do not. In the fall, these new numbers will be available on ISIS and the secure Human Resources self-service site.

To issue the cards, stations will be set up on campus at dates and times to be determined. Old cards should be destroyed when the new one is issued. For the most current information about how, when, and where to acquire a new card, visit www.uiowa.edu/~idcard.

Correction

The web site for the University of Iowa Press is www.uiowapress.org. It was listed incorrectly in the June 6 issue of fyi. We regret the error.