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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUS
Open forums planned for five UI presidential finalists June 11–15 The University of Iowa Presidential Search Committee has selected five finalists and will hold open forums and receptions for each of them Monday through Friday, June 11–15. In addition to attending the forums and receptions, which are open to the public, candidates will meet privately with UI administrators, faculty and staff members, and student leaders. The names of the candidates will be announced publicly a day before their visits. Each candidate's hour-long public forum will begin at 3:45 p.m. in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum on the Pentacrest. Candidates have been asked to speak for up to 30 minutes on what he or she sees as the top issues confronting public research universities. The remainder of the forum will be given over to questions from audience members. For the finalists visiting campus Tuesday through Friday, June 12–15, receptions will follow the forums from 5 to 6 p.m. on the first floor of the Old Capitol Museum. For the candidate visiting campus Monday, June 11, the reception will be held at the UI Museum of Natural History in Macbride Hall. For people who are unable to attend in person, each forum will be taped and broadcast on UITV at 7 p.m. the day of the visit. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to complete an online evaluation of each candidate. The evaluation form will be accessible from the presidential search web site: www.uiowa.edu/uipresidentialsearch. For more information, read the University News Release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/june/060107finalists.html.
Grillin’ on the river Looking for a new place for lunch this summer? Then check out Burgers and Blues, an outdoor event on the Iowa Memorial Union's scenic River Terrace. Members of the University of Iowa community, Iowa City residents, and visitors are invited to come out and relax by the river and enjoy grilled favorites and free live music. Local blues artist Kevin Burt will play on the Terrace from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, June 12, and Friday, June 15. IMU Food Service will be grilling from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Menu items include burgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, brats, chicken, and more from the Hawkeye Snack Shop. Burgers and Blues will continue June 20, 26, and 29 (musician TBA) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Kevin Burt returns to perform July 10, 13, and 18. Burgers and Blues is sponsored by the University’s SCOPE Productions and by the University of Iowa Community Credit Union. The event will take place on the IMU River Terrace on the west side of the building, outside The Hawkeye (formerly the Wheelroom) on the ground floor of the IMU. The IMU is located on the corner of Madison and Jefferson streets.
DISCOVERIESCenter for the Book awarded prestigious grant to preserve paper Thanks to a special impact grant of $184,740 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a University of Iowa researcher will undertake a new analytical survey of western paper made between the 14th and the 19th centuries. Results of the research will allow conservators and other preservation specialists at museums and libraries to make better-informed treatment and collections care decisions. Tim Barrett, a UI Center for the Book research scientist and original grant writer, says a large portion of paper from the earlier centuries is still in exceptional condition. "In spite of the fact it's more than 500 years old, many of these sheets are still surprisingly light in color, supple and strong," Barrett says. "This research will attempt to learn more about why they are so exceptionally stable, and why many other papers from later centuries are prone to rapid degradation." For more information, read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/may/052107imls-grant.html.
Looking at links between eating disorders and perfectionism UI researchers are exploring the link between perfectionism and behaviors associated with eating disorders like fasting, purging, and binge eating. Kelsie Forbush, a doctoral student in psychology, discovered that perfectionism is most highly associated with fasting and purging, and least associated with binge eating. Her work helps explain why perfectionism is considered a risk factor for anorexia and bulimia, in which fasting and purging are common, but not for binge eating disorder, in which fasting and purging are absent. "In Western cultures, people often endorse aesthetic ideals emphasizing thinness. These cultural messages might lead to fasting and purging among women with perfectionistic approaches to such ideals," Forbush says. "However, because binge eating is associated with weight gain, it makes sense that binge eating would not be directly associated with perfectionism among women pursuing that thin ideal." For more information, read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/may/052107eating-disorders.html.
Something in the air How do manmade pollution and mineral dust from Asian deserts travel across the Pacific? How do these dust and pollution plumes affect clouds, precipitation and, ultimately, our climate? Those are some of the questions that an international team of researchers, including a University of Iowa engineering professor, hope to illuminate following their recent completion of a study called the Pacific Dust Experiment, or PACDEX. Gregory R. Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and associate dean for graduate programs and research in the College of Engineering, says that PACDEX will greatly expand scientists' knowledge of the impact of Asian dust and pollution on the resulting phenomenon called "global dimming," as well as cloud formation, weather and climate change. For more information, read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/may/053007asian-dust.html.
TRANSITIONSTroyer, Rocklin to assume vice provost duties UI Executive Vice President and Provost Michael J. Hogan says he will not immediately fill the position of vice provost when current Vice Provost Patricia A. Cain retires from the University July 8. Instead, Hogan says, most of Cain's duties will transfer to Lisa Troyer, professor of sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Thomas Rocklin, associate provost for undergraduate education and dean of the University College. Troyer will be appointed interim associate provost for academic administration, effective July 1. Troyer has served as an administrative fellow in the provost's office for the past two years. Rocklin will be named senior associate provost, effective immediately. The addition of "senior" to Rocklin's associate provost title signifies that he will take over the responsibility, currently held by Cain, to represent the Office of the Provost when the provost is unable to do so. For more information, read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/may/051407vice-provost.html.
Frantz named dean of College of Nursing Rita Frantz, professor in the UI College of Nursing, has been named dean of the college effective July 1, 2007. Frantz succeeds former Dean Melanie C. Dreher, who resigned effective May 31, 2006, to accept the deanship at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. Professor Martha Craft-Rosenberg has served as interim dean over the past year. Frantz earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Marycrest College and her MA and PhD from the University of Iowa. She first joined the College of Nursing faculty as an instructor in 1972, and joined the tenure track as an assistant professor six years later. She has been a full professor in the college since 1996. For more information, read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/june/060607frantz-nursing.html.
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