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Entrepreneurial center lines up speakers and workshops

Instructional Improvement Award proposals due

Former surgeon general to speak

Philanthropy in cyberspace

Call for Improving Our Workplace Award nominations

Deaths

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Entrepreneurial center lines up speakers and workshops

The John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) has announced this fall’s schedule of Entrepreneurial Ventures Group speakers and FastTrac Academic Entrepreneurship Workshops and Dinners. All listed events are free of charge. For more information about JPEC or the events listed below, go to http://www.iowajpec.org or contact Amber Nienow at (33)5-0959.

Entrepreneurial Ventures Group Speaker Series

Speaker events are scheduled for 4-5:30 p.m.To RSVP for these events, go to http://www.iowajpec.org/newsevents/register.cfm?eid=10 or contact JPEC at 335-1022.

Innovation in Financing a Deal: A Case Study of Engineered Products, Jim Ashton (Ashton Capital Partners), Oct. 25, S401 PBB

Native American Capital: New Partnerships in Academic Entrepreneurship, Joseph Falkson (Native American Capital), Nov. 30, S401 PBB

Academic Entrepreneurship Workshops and Dinners

Workshops and dinners are scheduled for 5-6:30 p.m. To attend any of these workshops, call (33)5-1022.

The Entrepreneurial Process: Ideas to Execution, Oct. 18, 3111 SC

Keys to Successful Market Research & Analysis, Nov. 8, 5181 MERF

Instructional Improvement Award proposals due

The University’s Council on Teaching is now accepting proposals from faculty and staff for special funding to support instructional initiatives that will make exceptional and specific contributions to learning.

These awards ordinarily do not exceed a funding level of $5,000.  Depending on available funds and the proposal pool, some proposals may receive partial funding; therefore, applicants must clearly prioritize the most essential budgetary elements of the proposal. 

For more information and to obtain an application form, please refer to  http://www.uiowa.edu/~cot/.  Applications must be received by Nov. 8. 

Former surgeon general to speak

M. Joycelyn Elders, former surgeon general under the Clinton administration, will provide the keynote address, “Healthcare in the 21st Century,” at the Woodrow Morris Lectureship, Nov. 9, from 7:30-9 p.m., in the Coralville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

Elders’ address will examine the lack of health care accessibility in the United States, the burden placed on society by unhealthy behaviors, and strategies our country must devise to make America’s health status fit our health care expenditure.

Free and open to the public, this event is part of the two-day Long Term Care Conference, presented by the College of Nursing’s Adult and Gerontology Area of Study, the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center, and the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence.

Philanthropy in cyberspace

Since launching its online giving program in 2000, the University of Iowa Foundation has cultivated a culture of philanthropy in cyberspace, finding success that ranks among the best in the Big Ten Conference and the nation as a whole.

According to a 2006 Chronicle of Philanthropy survey, The University of Iowa ranked 12th in the nation in online giving results, and second only to Pennsylvania State University among Big Ten universities. Iowa’s program (www.givetoiowa.org) brought in nearly $1.65 million this past year, a huge increase from just five years ago, when the online program solicited just shy of $43,000.

With the ease and convenience of online giving, the University has seen tremendous growth in first-time donors.

“The online program has been an effective way to reestablish relationships with the University,” says Hilery Livengood, director of web strategies at the UI Foundation.

The UI community can benefit from the foundation’s success—online giving pages can be built for any unit on campus with gift fund accounts at the foundation. Communications staff members in the foundation can help with page development based on the desired strategy or end goal in mind. In addition, foundation development staff can help units devise appropriate solicitation strategies.

“The foundation’s site allows people to make informed philanthropic decisions,” Livengood says. “UI units can select what funds to list on their pages, and donors can identify the needs and desired outcomes.”

For more information about the UI Foundation, visit www.uifoundation.org.

Call for Improving Our Workplace Award nominations

Do you know a staff member or a team whose efforts have made a lasting difference at the University? Here is an opportunity to recognize the exceptional value they have provided in your area. Nominate them for the Improving Our Workplace Award (IOWA), a campus-wide recognition program. Nomination forms are available at www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/IOWA. The deadline for fall submissions is Nov. 1.

Deaths

John Hess, 89, retired clinical assistant professor, Aug. 10.

Floyd Brown, 85, retired kitchen helper, Aug. 20 in Iowa City.

Robert Bush, 86, retired patient account representative, Aug. 24 in Iowa City.

Walter T. Atcherson, 75, professor emeritus of music, Aug. 25 in Iowa City.

Robert E. Buckles, 89, professor emeritus of chemistry, Aug. 28 in Placerville, Calif.

Neil Bredman, 70, retired senior database analyst, Sept. 2 in Las Vegas.

Sandra K. Shank, 57, secretary III, Sept. 3 in Iowa City.

Edward Gruwell, 87, retired mail distributor, Sept. 5 in Iowa City.

Janice Dawn Jensen, 62, clerk II, Sept. 6 in Iowa City.

Mary C. Richey, 56, health lab scientist, Sept. 11 in Iowa City.

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