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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSNew plan, new choices await staff, faculty during benefits open enrollment
Iowa Alumni Magazine wants to see your tattoos
Perhaps it’s a memento from your days in the military, a loving tribute to a girlfriend, or a permanent reminder of a dare you couldn’t resist. Maybe it’s a tiger, a Celtic design…or a cute heart. Whatever—and wherever—it may be, the Iowa Alumni Magazine staff want to see your tattoo. For an upcoming article, they’re looking for UI students, faculty, or staff with interesting, unusual, beautiful, or wacky body art. If you’ve got intriguing ink, contact Tina Owen at (33)5-3292 or tina-owen@uiowa.edu by Nov. 12.
UI licensee Optherion secures $37 million in startup financing Optherion (www.optherion.com), which has offices and laboratories in New Haven, Conn., will pursue advanced treatments and diagnostics for AMD and other diseases using core technology licensed from the UI Research Foundation. The company was founded based on scientific discoveries by Gregory Hageman, UI professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences in the Carver College of Medicine, and Josephine Hoh of Yale University. For more information, read the University News Services release:
Princeton Review ranks UI law school, Tippie MBA programs among nation's best The UI law school was included in the ranking organization's 2008 edition of Best 170 Law Schools, and the Tippie School of Management in the Tippie College of Business was included in the Best 290 Business Schools. The Princeton Review has posted the ranking lists and information on how they are compiled at www.PrincetonReview.com, where the lists can be searched by school or by category.
UI personnel, organizations invited to develop events for MLK Week The Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Week Committee invites University personnel and organizations to develop a program(s) that will enhance the educational impact of the week, which will be held Jan. 21–25, 2008. Programs/events should represent “the hope, healing, and service to America” that King inspired. The committee’s goal is to foster the discussion of issues that affect the role, perception, and treatment of different groups of people within our society. In order for your program/event to be included in our University-wide marketing materials, organizers need the following information by Oct. 26:
Send this information to Maria Newton, Office of Stuent Life, 145 IMU; maria-newton@uiowa.edu.
Works by UI alumna Elizabeth Catlett will be at UI Museum of Art "I Am: Prints by Elizabeth Catlett," a selection of 27 prints by the renowned artist and UI alumna, will be on view through Jan. 6, 2008, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA). Included in the exhibition is a portfolio of six prints inspired by the poem "For My People" by Margaret Walker, an alumna of the Iowa Writers' Workshop who was Catlett's roommate at the University. In conjunction with the exhibition, UI theatre student Makeba Henry will read selections from Walker's writings at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25, in the UIMA. Catlett, who studied under Grant Wood, was the first student to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University in 1940. Her overtly political works chronicle the stories and experiences of African Americans and Mexicans, especially women and children. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information on the UI Museum of Art visit www.uiowa.edu/uima.
Researchers can check contracts, subawards through new web service The Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) is launching two new web-based services—the Contract Log and the Subaward Log—which will allow University of Iowa researchers to check the status of their externally funded agreements, nonmonetary agreements, and outgoing subawards processed by DSP. Contract Log features will include the name of the DSP reviewer/negotiator, the status of the agreement or negotiation, and a link to draft and final agreements as well as related correspondence. Aspects of the Subaward Log will feature UPS tracking information, dates sent and signed, the name of the DSP reviewer/negotiator, and the status of the agreement or negotiation. The Contract Log and Subaward Log will be available to campus via the University of Iowa Research Information System (UIRIS): www.research.uiowa.edu/dsp/main/?get=era. People with suggestions, comments, or requests for training should contact Erin Brothers, DSP program assistant, (33)5-2127, erin-brothers@uiowa.edu; or Wendy Beaver, DSP senior associate director, (33)5-2122, wendy-beaver@uiowa.edu.
Publication workshop to include pair of events open to UI community Two public events will be held at The University of Iowa as part of a publication workshop, sponsored by the UI Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, for junior faculty from Iowa and other universities and colleges. These sessions are open to the entire UI community:
For more information, please contact Lauren Rabinovitz, director of the Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, at (38)4-3490 or at cesa@uiowa.edu, or visit the center’s web site: www.uiowa.edu/~cesa.
University buildings honored with design awards The American Institute of Architects (Iowa Chapter) honored two University of Iowa buildings with design awards at a recent annual convention. The Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Center received an Excellence in Design Award of Merit, while Carver-Hawkeye Arena received the 2007 American Institute of Architects Iowa 25-Year Award. The awards jury praised the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Center’s use of lighting and materials, and pointed out that Carver-Hawkeye “exudes a real spirit of design…it was simply ahead of its time.” At the same convention, Kinnick Stadium was honored with the Masonry Institute of Iowa’s Grand Award, which honors excellence in design for projects where masonry is the primary building material.
Get fit with new yoga and Pilates classes A new session of wellness classes in yoga and Pilates begins the week of Oct. 22. Open to faculty, staff, and students, the classes are offered by the UI Division of Recreational Services at several campus locations. Many of the one-hour classes are held during the lunch hour or early evenings. Participants can register for a six-week class or pay per class. For class descriptions and schedules, visit www.recserv.uiowa.edu/programs/FitandWell/wellness.htm. Or contact Recreational Services at 335-9293.
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:
DISCOVERIESRietz's research finds runoff elections hurt minority representation The research, by Tom Rietz, professor of finance in the Tippie College of Business, looks at the electability of candidates running to represent minority groups' interests against candidates preferred by majority groups. The research showed that, while minority-preferred candidates may get enough votes to win in multi-candidate races that don't require a majority of votes, they seldom achieve more than 50 percent. In the resulting runoff elections, they generally lose. Rietz said the findings are important because 11 states require that candidates receive 50 percent of the vote to win a statewide election. But since the rules in those states handicap minority candidates from the start, he said it's that much more difficult for minorities in those states to have a voice in government. For more information, read the University News Services release: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/100407rietzelection.html.
Researchers develop mini-driving simulator The simulator will allow researchers across the country access to a state-of-the-art research tool useful in a variety of studies, including some that determine the effects of various medications on driver skill and reaction time. For more information, read the University News Services release: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/101507nads.html.
Researchers show clinical value of fingerprinting common respiratory viruses Recent epidemiological and clinical data have revealed that such typing has great value in understanding adenovirus outbreaks that occur in communities, hospitals, and especially in long-term care facilities, where new strains have proven deadly. For instance, in 1999 a new adenovirus strain caused illness in 84 percent of 50 long-term care facility residents, leading to 26 hospitalizations and seven deaths. Adenoviruses are also a major cause of severe illness among bone marrow transplant patients, where as many as 50 percent who are infected may die from adenovirus disease. Typing is further valuable in that it shows clinicians how their patients are acquiring adenovirus infections and, as some adenovirus types respond better to specific therapies, also helps clinicians determine if a specific patient warrants antiviral therapy for his or her adenovirus infection. "Before the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded this study, our best understanding of circulating adenovirus was from studies conducted in the 1970s, when molecular tools were not available," said Gregory Gray, the study's principal investigator and professor of epidemiology in the UI College of Public Health. "Modern molecular tools allow us to greatly reduce the time from virus detection to specific viral type identification, making molecular typing very valuable to epidemiologists and clinicians. Also, new strains of adenovirus have emerged, and these tools are helping us better understand why they are associated with more severe disease." For more information, read the University News Services release:
TRANSITIONSKardon appointed to new Pomerantz Family Chair in Ophthalmology Kardon is the first faculty member to be appointed to the chair, which is supported by an endowment established through the UI Foundation by Marvin Pomerantz, a Des Moines–based business and civic leader who also is a UI alumnus and longtime UI supporter. The appointment will enable Kardon to collaborate on advancing the diagnosis and treatment of blinding disorders of the optic nerve and retina. A UI faculty member since 1989, Kardon directs the neuro-ophthalmology services and teaches UI medical students and fellows. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with high distinction from The University of Iowa in 1975. He also attended medical school at Iowa and was in the first graduating class of the combined medical and doctoral degree program, graduating in 1982. Kardon's appointment was celebrated at an investiture ceremony Oct. 17. The recent appointments of two other UI faculty members to named positions also were celebrated at that event: Betsy Chrischilles, professor of epidemiology, who now holds the Marvin A. and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in the College of Public Health; and Theresa Brennan, UI associate professor of internal medicine, who now is the John W. Colloton Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiology.
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