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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSCelebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women will be held April 9 A Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women, The University of Iowa’s annual tribute to the accomplishments of women at the University, will be held Wednesday, April 9, in the Richey Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union, with a reception at 3:30 p.m. and the awards program at 4 p.m. UI president Sally Mason will present the keynote address, and Interim Provost Lola Lopes will be master of ceremonies for this event, which is free and open to the public. Presentations during the celebration will include:
For more information, visit www.uiowa.edu/celebrationofexcellence.
Improving Our Workplace Awards winners announced The University’s Improving Our Workplace Awards (IOWA) program gives supervisors and coworkers the opportunity to recognize staff for a variety of efforts that have had positive results in their workplace. The IOWA program recently announced five UI staff members and six UI teams as winners of spring 2008 awards for initiative and innovation in improving the experience of faculty, staff, patients, and students. IOWA-winning staff members are Ralph Daniello, assistant nurse manager of oral surgery in the College of Dentistry; Levi deVries, food production supervisor II in food and nutrition services in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; Judy Elleson, assistant director in the Department of Pathology; Robin Paetzold, program associate II in the office of student affairs in the Carver College of Medicine; and Deb Strabala, program associate II in the clinical staff office of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. IOWA-winning teams are the E-Suggestion Box, the Lint Reduction Team, the Pediatric Hand Hygiene Project, the Staff Reward and Recognition Workgroup, the Training, Resource, and Action Committee, and UIHC Patient and Visitor Communication. For more information, including descriptions of the initiatives and a list of members on each team, go to www.uiowa.edu/hr/iowa/winners_current.html.
Folsom featured in Walt Whitman documentary; will air April 14 on IPTV University of Iowa English Professor Ed Folsom is featured in an upcoming documentary on American poet Walt Whitman. The program will air at 11 p.m., Monday, April 14, on IPTV Digital as part of the network's American Experience series. Folsom, a well known Whitman scholar, has been involved with the documentary for five years, contributing six hours of interviews and helping to edit the script. He discusses Whitman's life, work, and "urban affection"—the way his poetry responds to and helps create a poetics of the city. For more on the documentary, see http://pressroom.pbs.org/documents/american_experience_walt_whitman_rls. For the IPTV schedule, see www.iptv.org.
UI writing programs help doctoral student in Iraq The book project began when the student sent e-mails to several UI faculty members, explaining the difficulties of locating literary materials in war-torn Iraq for research on "paranoia in the postmodern American novel." Robin Hemley, director of the Nonfiction Writing Program in the English Department; Christopher Merrill, director of the UI International Writing Program; and English faculty member Loren Glass decided to help the student obtain the texts through Jeffrey Spurr and the Sabre Foundation at Harvard. The UI effort is coordinated by Steve McNutt at the International Writing Program. For additional information, or to arrange to contribute books, contact him at stephen-mcnutt@uiowa.edu or steve_mcnutt@yahoo.com.
University seeks honorary degree nominations The University of Iowa Honorary Degree Selection Committee is seeking nominations for the next round of honorary degree awards. Degrees are conferred during UI commencement ceremonies upon individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary and sustained achievements in such areas as research, scholarship, education, artistic creation, social activism, human rights, humanitarian outreach, or other endeavors consistent with the values of the University. Nominations should be made in a two-page statement or letter outlining the nominee's achievement, and forwarded to Evalyn Van Allen-Shalash, Office of the Provost, 111 Jessup Hall; or via e-mail attachment to van-allen-shalash@uiowa.edu; or via www.uiowa.edu/~honorary/nomination-form. The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 9. For more details on nominations, see http://www.uiowa.edu/~honorary/policy or contact Van Allen-Shalash at 319-335-0142.
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former U.S. Poet Laureate Glück will read April 9 A former faculty member of the UI Writers' Workshop, Glück was U.S. poet laureate in 2003–04. Her reading, sponsored by the Writers' Workshop and the Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorships Program, will be free and open to the public. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/march/032808gluck_reading.html.
University of Iowa professionals receive ADDY Awards University of Iowa marketing, communications, and design professionals received several ADDY awards Feb. 23 at the 40th Annual American Advertising Federation of Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Awards Gala in Cedar Rapids. Iowa Memorial Union Marketing and Design won the Mosaic Award, which is given for celebrating achievement in diversity, as well as one Gold ADDY and one Silver ADDY. The UI Foundation won three Gold and two Silver ADDY Awards, University Hospitals and Clinics/University of Iowa Health Care earned three Gold ADDYs and one Silver ADDY, and University Relations earned one silver award. A photo taken for the IOWA Centers for Enterprise earned a silver award, while a newsletter produced for University Hospitals and Clinics won a Gold award. See www.adfedcr.com/content.asp?ID=3487 for a complete list of all ADDY winners.
Retirement resource now online The Retiree’s Handbook, produced by the UI Retirees Association and the University of Iowa Emeritus Faculty Association is now available online. For those who see retirement in their near future, the site, www.uiowa.edu/retiree, includes information about University benefits and volunteer opportunities, and useful tips and links. See what Learning and Development courses are right for you UI Learning and Development, a unit of Organizational Effectiveness, provides professional development services to faculty and staff. There are many learning opportunities that will support your professional development and growth. Look for classroom instruction on leadership issues for managers, frontline supervisors, human resource professionals, and office professionals. Check out the following links:
DISCOVERIESSoot found to play larger role in global warming than previously thought Soot from diesel engine exhaust and cooking fires—widely used in Asia—may play a larger role than previously thought in global warming, according to a University of Iowa researcher and his colleague. Greg Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering in the UI College of Engineering, and V. Ramanathan, atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego, presented their findings in the March 23 online edition of the journal Nature Geoscience. Titled "Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon," the paper says that black carbon soot has an atmospheric warming effect three to four times greater than previously estimated. Coal and cow dung–fueled cooking fires in China and India produce about one-third of black carbon; the rest is largely due to diesel exhaust in Europe and other regions relying on diesel transport. The article also noted that soot and other forms of black carbon could equal up to 60 percent of the current global warming effect of carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/march/032408globalwarmingsoot.html.
Advances made in fructose intolerance recognition and research Gas. Bloating. Belching. Diarrhea. You might be thinking lactose-intolerance or a too-generous helping of beans, but it could be dietary fructose intolerance—a compromised ability to digest the sugar fructose. The condition, also known as fructose malabsorption, is being increasingly diagnosed and treated, thanks in part to research by Satish Rao and colleagues at The University of Iowa. "Dietary fructose intolerance has been less known than irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder that causes bowel symptoms—diarrhea or gas and bloating as well as constipation," said Rao, a professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine and a gastroenterologist with UI Hospitals and Clinics. "However, for people with gastrointestinal symptoms or those who have already been diagnosed with IBS, it is worth raising the question of dietary fructose intolerance." Rao noted that dietary fructose intolerance, while problematic, is not life-threatening and thus different from hereditary fructose intolerance, a much rarer condition that is usually identified in childhood. Read the full University News Service release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/april/040108fructose_research.html.
TRANSITIONSUI President Mason names Loh new executive vice president, provost
Wallace D. Loh, dean of the college of arts and sciences, professor of public service, and professor of psychology at Seattle University, has been named executive vice president and provost of The University of Iowa, pending approval by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. He will begin his duties Aug. 1. Loh succeeds Michael J. Hogan, who left the University to become president of the University of Connecticut in September 2007. Lola Lopes, former associate provost and longtime UI faculty member, is serving as interim executive vice president and provost. Before becoming Seattle University's dean of arts and sciences in 1999, Loh was director of policy for Washington governor Gary Locke. He also was vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of law at the University of Colorado, Boulder, from 1995–97. From 1990–95, he was dean of the University of Washington Law School and was voted by students as the "Outstanding Professor of the Year." Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/march/032608loh_provost.html.
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