 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||
News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSCollege of Dentistry offers incentive for faculty, staff The College of Dentistry and the University Benefits Office have created a one-year pilot program, running from Aug. 1, 2008, through July 31, 2009, for University faculty, staff, and their families who participate in either Dental I, II, or III. Under the pilot program the University will pay 100% (no copay or deductible required) of treatment currently covered—up to a participant's annual maximum—as long as the treatment is provided by dental students at the College of Dentistry. The program was developed to increase the educational opportunities for third- and fourth-year dental students. It is important to note that treatment in the student clinics takes extra time. Employees and family members who are currently patients in the student clinics are also eligible to participate in the program. To participate:
The pilot program does not apply to any care provided by a College of Dentistry faculty member. Contact the College of Dentistry with questions about the types of dental care that can be obtained under the program.
University Libraries extends due dates Because of the floods, University Libraries has changed due dates and is providing assistance with damaged materials. Faculty loans that have not been recalled are now due June 1, 2009. Graduate loans that have not been recalled are now due Jan. 28, 2009. Short-term loans that were due between June 12 and July 9 were due Aug. 1, 2008. Items that were recalled and were due between June 12 and July 9 were due Aug. 1, 2008. If you have any questions about due dates, you can "Check My Account" (http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/myaccount) from the University Libraries' web site.
Sustainability, flood recovery featured at University’s Iowa State Fair exhibit For the full listing of UI events and special appearances scheduled for the run of the fair, see www.uiowa.edu/statefair. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/080408state_fair.html.
It pays to apply for professional development awards All permanent UI staff members, half-time and greater, are eligible to apply for a Professional Development Award through UI Learning and Development. Winners, selected through a lottery, will receive free admission to a fee-required UI Learning and Development event. To apply for an award, submit the following information:
Send your entry via campus mail to UI Learning and Development, 121-51 USB, or by fax to 335-2644, by 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22. Applications will not be accepted via phone or e-mail. Applications must be legible. Only one application per person will be accepted. All eligible staff members who submit a complete award application by the deadline will be notified by campus mail.
Resources available for UI faculty, staff members impacted by flood An emergency relief fund is available to help faculty, staff, and students recover from the floods. Staff and faculty interested in applying for financial assistance from the UI Flood Relief Fund are encouraged to visit the UI Flood Assistance Request Page http://www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery/uihelp.html. A Hawk ID and password are required to enter the site. Faculty and staff requesting financial support from the flood fund will be asked to schedule a confidential appointment to meet with an eligibility coordinator. Appointments can be scheduled by visiting the UI Flood Assistance Request Page or by calling 3UI-FUND (384-3863). Additionally, a UI Flood Exchange web site, www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery/flood-relief/flood-exchange, has been created where members of the UI community can post messages seeking or offering assistance to one another. For more flood-related resources, news, and information, visit the UI Flood Recovery Web site www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery.
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:
DISCOVERIESProfessor: Katrina boosted New Orleans musicians' productivity, creativity New Orleans artists are reluctant to credit Hurricane Katrina as a source of inspiration. But after the disaster—which marks its third anniversary Aug. 29—many New Orleans musicians experienced their most productive months in decades and scaled new creative peaks, a University of Iowa professor asserts. The flood displaced many artists, jolting them out of comfort zones. It also drove up demand for New Orleans music as the country clung to connections with the city, said Don McLeese, a journalism professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences whose career as a music critic has spanned three decades. McLeese's assessment of the hurricane's impact on New Orleans musicians was published in the May 2008 issue of the journal Popular Music and Society. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/080408katrina.html.
UI team helps piece together genetic puzzle of schizophrenia University of Iowa researchers contributed to a study that found a particular genetic variation is associated with schizophrenia. The severe mental health disorder affects nearly 1 percent of people in the United States and can include delusions, hallucinations and confused thinking. The study, which was published online July 30 in the journal Nature Genetics, was led by Michael O'Donovan at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Also on July 30, two other research groups published separate findings in the journal Nature that identified genetic variations—three deletions—and confirmed a previously known deletion, all associated with schizophrenia. Previous investigations have not involved such large sample sizes as the three new studies did, and taken together, they provide strong evidence that schizophrenia may result from interactions of large stretches of DNA on multiple locations in an individual's genome, said Donald W. Black, principal investigator for the UI site and professor of psychiatry at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. In addition to Black, UI researchers involved in the Nature Genetics paper were Raymond Crowe, professor emeritus of psychiatry, and Tom Wassink, associate professor of psychiatry. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/july/073108schizophrenia.html.
Leadership study suggests age may have helped Obama, hurt Clinton Hillary Clinton prides herself on experience, but she may have had a better shot at the White House if she were younger, a University of Iowa study suggests. The research suggests that Americans expect women to reach their peak performance as leaders at age 43, four years before men's perceived peak at age 47. They also believe women's contributions at work start to decline at 59.7, compared to age 61.3 for men, according to the nationally representative online survey of 1,996 adults. Those expectations may have hurt Clinton, who is 60, but helped Barack Obama, who will soon hit the "ideal" leadership age of 47, said Michael Lovaglia, professor in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who led the study. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/july/073008leadership-age.html.
TRANSITIONSDeaths
|
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
.jpg)
