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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSUniversity issues flood recovery report to Regents The University of Iowa’s report to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, on the campus flood recovery status, dated Aug. 25, 2008, is now available online in PDF format. To view the report, see www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery/recovery-reports/BOR-082508.pdf. To view archived reports, see www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery/recovery-reports.
Selected Iowa Memorial Union offices on the move again Several units normally housed in the Iowa Memorial Union have moved to new temporary quarters. The Office of Student Life, Student Government, and several related offices have moved to Seashore Hall. IMU Marketing and Design has moved to Seashore as well. Guest and Event Services, Catering Operations and Sales, Iowa House Hotel Administration, and IMU Information Systems have moved to 868 South Capitol Street. The University Box Office, along with IMU Administration and Human Resources offices have moved to the University Capitol Centre. For more details, see www.uiowa.edu/floodrecovery/getting-around/unit-relocations.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute contributes $1 million to help UI flood recovery The University of Iowa and the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have received $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to help the biomedical research enterprise recover from the effects of the summer 2008 flood. Despite escaping the floodwaters that devastated other areas of campus, the UI Carver College of Medicine, and in particular the biomedical research community, was seriously affected by the shutting down of the UI Power Plant. The plant provides steam, which is essential for air conditioning and temperature control as well as autoclave operations and hot water production. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/081908hhmi_flood_donation.html.
UI Hospitals and Clinics named again as Magnet hospital UI Hospitals and Clinics once again has been designated as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program for excellence in nursing services, which recognizes excellence and professionalism in nursing. Magnet designation is widely accepted as the gold standard of patient care. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/082008magnet-hospital.html.
Pop-culture author Chuck Klosterman kicks off UI lecture series Aug. 27 Pop-culture author Chuck Klosterman will kick off the University of Iowa Lecture Committee's annual lecture series Wednesday, Aug. 27. He will speak at 8:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in downtown Iowa City. In his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Klosterman describes how the current pop-obsessed media-saturated culture can be used to discuss larger and greater topics and how it's linked to peoples' memories and lives. Klosterman has written two other bestsellers and had two titles simultaneously on the hardcover and paperback lists.
Currently living in New York, Klosterman is a columnist for Esquire and is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/082008klosterman.html.
UI Hospitals and Clinics among performance improvement leaders UI Hospitals and Clinics and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred U.S. hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years. The 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, and financial stability. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/081408hospital_leaders.html.
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:
DISCOVERIESUI researcher helps identify protein with anti-obesity effect A research team that included a University of Iowa scientist has identified an anti-obesity effect for a developmentally important protein involved in fat formation. The findings, which are published in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Nature, may suggest a new target for obesity treatments. The study was led by Yu-Hua Tseng, assistant investigator in the Section on Obesity at the Joslin Diabetes Center, and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Tseng and colleagues, including Andrew Norris, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Carver College of Medicine, showed that Bone Morphogenic Protein 7 (BMP7) induces precursor cells to turn into brown fat—the type of fat that burns energy and is thought to counteract obesity. The researchers also found that mice treated with BMP7 had increased energy expenditure and body temperature leading to significant weight reduction. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/082008obesity.html.
Teens who attend religious services do better in school, study shows Whether a family attends religious services has as much of an impact on a teen's grade-point average (GPA) as whether the student's parents earned a college degree, a University of Iowa study indicates. Researchers found that on average, students whose parents received a four-year college degree average a GPA .12 higher than those whose parents only completed a high school education. Students who attend religious services weekly average a GPA .144 higher than those who never attend services, said Jennifer Glanville, a sociologist in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who led the study. Other studies have noted a link between religious service attendance and positive educational outcomes, but this is one of the first to look at why. The study confirmed four reasons church-going teens tend to have more success in school: they have regular contact with adults from various generations who serve as role models, their parents are more likely to communicate with their friends' parents, they develop friendships with peers who have similar norms and values, and they're more likely to participate in extracurricular activities. Together, these factors account for about half of the predicted effect of religious attendance on educational outcome, controlling for other important factors like socioeconomic status and family structure, Glanville said. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/081808teensreligion.html.
Fruit flies help UI team understand bacterial infections Sometimes it may be a good idea to "shoot the messenger:" University of Iowa researchers and colleagues have shown that destroying a messenger molecule used by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) protects against infection-related death in fruit flies. The research team, led by Joseph Zabner, professor of internal medicine in the Carver College of Medicine, used fruit flies to learn more about P. aeruginosa, which is a major cause of infections in individuals who are hospitalized, have burn wounds or have cystic fibrosis. The research, which was published Aug. 14 in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (http://www.jci.org), suggests that the bacteria's cell-to-cell signaling system is key to the bacteria's ability to cause disease. Furthermore, the researchers showed that a human protein, which can degrade the messenger molecule, interferes with the communication system and significantly reduces the bacteria's virulence. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/081908fruit_flies.html.
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