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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSMason to review campuswide smoking ban recommendation After gathering input from the campus community and studying policies at other major research universities, the University of Iowa Smoking Policy Review Team has recommended that the entire UI campus go smoke-free by July 1, 2009. It has forwarded its report to President Sally Mason for review. A copy of the recommendations is available in PDF form at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/december/120407smoking-report.pdf. Over the past year, members of an ad hoc smoking review committee held meetings with key stakeholders both within and outside the University; considered votes taken by the UI Student Government, Staff Council and Faculty Senate; conducted two open forums; and solicited feedback via a mass e-mail. It also studied research data and policies at other universities that are members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago. Based on that information, the committee said it believes the University should be smoke-free "to promote the health and well-being of students, employees, and other constituents." Read the full University News Services release: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/december/120407smoking_ban_review.html.
A walk in the clouds?
UI Pappajohn Center moves up in Entrepreneur Magazine rankings JPEC was ranked No. 25 in last year's survey. Entrepreneur and the Princeton Review compiled the rankings with surveys of 900 undergraduate and graduate schools about their offerings in entrepreneurship. The questions used in the ranking covered three basic areas: academics and requirements, students and faculty, and "outside the classroom." The story notes that JPEC offers 16 courses in entrepreneurship to 1,005 students, 16 percent of whom have started businesses of their own. The magazine also notes that 85 percent of the center's faculty members have started a business. See the rankings at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges/index.html.
IOWA 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 two UI staff members and five UI teams as winners of fall 2007 awards for initiative and innovation in improving the experience of faculty, staff, patients, and students. IOWA-winning staff members are Cynthia Detweiler, clerk III in the Center for Disabilities and Development; and Janet Kugley, project assistant in the Department of Chemistry. IOWA-winning teams are the Ambulatory Care Academy Team; the Medication Reconciliation Work Group; the Reusable Laryngeal Mask Airways; the University Housing 360º Feedback Performance Evaluation Committee; and the Work Fluorescent Lamp Management Team. For more information, including descriptions of the initiatives and a list of members on each team, go to www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/IOWA/currentWinners.shtml.
University of Iowa Libraries unveil the Iowa Gallery digital art collections This array of digitized artwork is now available through "The Iowa Gallery: Digitized Art Collections of the University of Iowa" at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery. The Iowa Gallery currently provides expanded and integrated access to more than 15,000 images from the museum's permanent collection, the School of Art and Art History Graduate Archive, and the Daily Palette. The Iowa Digital Library contains nearly 90,000 digital objects—photographs, maps, sound recordings and documents—from libraries and archives at the University and their partnering institutions. The Iowa Digital Library also includes faculty research collections and bibliographic tools. Once again, the University of Iowa W-2 and/or 1042-S (for nonresident aliens) forms will be available on the HR Self Service web site (http://hris.uiowa.edu/selfservice). The IRS allows for electronic delivery of W-2/1042-S forms if permission is given. To do this, select “Stop Paper Mailings” under the general section on the Personal tab on the HR Self Service site. The 2007 W-2/1042-S forms will be available mid- to late-January 2008, and by electing electronic delivery you will have access to your form approximately one week before the forms are mailed. For more information, refer to the Payroll web site, www.uiowa.edu/hr/payroll.
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:
DISCOVERIESResearchers say "place" affects quality of the water we drink If you were to break your leg and be admitted to a hospital, would you want to receive the same tests as a neighboring patient being treated for pneumonia? Of course not, but a similar situation occurs when federal Safe Drinking Water Act regulations—which often ignore local water conditions and history—are applied to many U.S. towns, said Raj Rajagopal, geography professor in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Water quality monitoring needs to be tailor-made for each community, according to Ed Brands, UI adjunct assistant professor of geography and international programs, and Rajagopal, who recently completed a three-part study, "Economics of Place-based Monitoring under the Safe Drinking Water Act." The study has recently been published in the Springer journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and is available at www.springerlink.com/content/?k=economics+of+place-based+monitoring.
UI research: Even today, couples put more emphasis on husband's career "This is bad news for people who are interested in men and women having equal success in the labor force," said Mary Noonan, associate professor of sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "Even for highly educated married women with prestigious occupations, employment still suffers when they move, while the husbands' careers benefit. These women likely share the role of breadwinner, earning a significant part of the family income, but their career is still seen as secondary within the dynamic of the couple." Read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/november/113007couples_careers.html.
Study: Parental physical violence lowers children's standardized test scores The study was published in the November 2007 issue of the Annals of Epidemiology, available at www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10472797. "It's likely that witnessing intimate partner violence affects a child's abilities to demonstrate and acquire academic skills and that we would find this effect in standardized test scores," said Corinne Peek-Asa, principal investigator of the study and professor of occupational and environmental health in the UI College of Public Health. To test this hypothesis, Peek-Asa and colleagues collected data from a rural health study conducted in one Iowa county. They found that one in five children in the study lived in a household in which parents reported at least one act of physical violence, and that these children performed an average of 12.2 percentile points lower on standardized tests than children whose parents reported no such violence. Read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/november/111907parent-violence.html.
TRANSITIONSEckstein named UI interim associate provost for academic administration As interim associate provost, Eckstein will advise, assist, and counsel the provost on issues related to academic program development, coordination, approval and assessment, including accreditation, as well as meeting program reporting requirements to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. The position has responsibility for oversight of collegiate and decanal reviews conducted by the Office of the Provost, and of space and capital planning and space utilization on campus as a representative of the provost. In addition, the associate provost for academic administration advises the provost on resource allocations for special initiatives. Read the University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/november/112907ecksteinassocprovost.html.
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