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News in Brief
AROUND CAMPUSNew optical discount available to faculty, staff UI Optical, the new optical dispensary in the Pomerantz Family Pavilion, offers a discount on eyeglasses to UI faculty and staff members. The discount is available to faculty and staff members and their dependents. The 10% discount will be applied to the cost of a complete set of eyeglasses, including frames, lenses, tints, or coatings. The discount will not apply to accessories such as eyeglass holders, cleaners, etc. The discount is part of a pilot benefit program and will be reevaluated in the future. UI Optical clients do not need to be patients of UIHC. All current prescriptions will be accepted. Bring a copy of your current prescription to order eyewear. Eye exams are available by appointment in the Eye Clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences by calling 35(6-2852).
UI Lecture Committee announces Lecture Series events The University of Iowa Lecture Committee has announced its 2008-09 season, with noted biologist E.O. Wilson, human rights activist Ishmael Beah, and author Naomi Klein speaking this fall in Iowa City. All events are free and open to the public and begin at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. This year's speakers include: E.O. Wilson will give the 2008-09 Distinguished Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the First United Methodist Church, 214 E. Jefferson St. Wilson is a professor of biology at Harvard University and a pioneer in the fields of biodiversity and sociobiology. Two of his 21 books have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes. He has been hailed as "the new Darwin" by Thomas Wolfe, and one of "America's 25 Most Influential People" by TIME Magazine. Ishmael Beah, Wednesday, Oct. 29, at the First United Methodist Church, 214 E. Jefferson St. Beah is a former child soldier in Sierra Leone, human rights activist, and best selling author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Naomi Klein will speak in November; location, date, and time are to be determined. Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Upcoming lectures for spring 2009 include Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky; hip hop activist and journalist Harry Allen; and Inga Muscio, a feminist, anti-racism writer and speaker. Dates, times, and locations for these lectures have not been set. For more information, see http://lectures.uiowa.edu.
UI Volunteer Fair connects employees, students with organizations The University of Iowa will sponsor a fall semester volunteer fair Thursday, Sept. 11, to connect faculty, staff, and students with local service organizations. The fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Old Brick Community Center at 26 E. Market St. Approximately 65 organizations will provide information and sign up volunteers. Groups expected to attend include civic and government organizations, educational and child care organizations, arts and cultural organizations, historical groups, and groups that provide services to people who are poor, ill, disabled, or victims of violence.
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 rewrite Earth's volcanic history of 260 million years ago A University of Iowa researcher is helping to rewrite the geologic story of one the Earth's most active volcanic periods—one that included a mass extinction of life—some 260 million years ago. Volcanologist and planetary geologist Ingrid Ukstins Peate, assistant professor of geoscience in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, published her research online in the journal Nature Geoscience. Ukstins Peate, with co-author and geologist Scott Bryan of the University of Queensland, Australia, write that the massive eruptions likely were due to basaltic lava reacting with a shallow ocean that once covered southwestern China, rather than as a result of large-scale uplift from plumes of magma rising from deep within the Earth's mantle to the surface, as many geologists think. Read the full University News Services release at http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/august/082808volcanic.html. Further information about the paper, "Re-evaluating plume-induced uplift in the Emeishan large igneous province," can be found with the article abstract at www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ngeo281.html.
TRANSITIONSFinkelstein named associate dean in UI College of Dentistry Michael Finkelstein, professor in the University of Iowa College of Dentistry's Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology, and Medicine, has been appointed the college's associate dean for education. Finkelstein succeeds Yvonne Chalkley, who has served as associate dean since 1986. Chalkley will continue to work part-time during the transition. Finkelstein received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1972 and a doctorate in dental surgery from The University of Iowa in 1976. He also earned a master's degree in oral pathology from The University of Iowa in 1982. Finkelstein joined the College of Dentistry faculty in 1983. He also holds an academic appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. In addition to earning more than 20 "Instructor of the Year" awards and two Collegiate Teaching Awards from the College of Dentistry, Finkelstein has received the President's Award from the Iowa Dental Association (2006); the James H. McLeran Faculty Award (2005); the UI Dental Alumni Association Dental Educator of the Year Award (2005); and the UI President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence (2004). Finkelstein was named the College of Dentistry's Centennial Endowed Professor of Teaching and Curriculum in 2000.
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center names Buatti deputy director John Buatti, professor and head of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Carver College of Medicine and UI Hospitals and Clinics, has been appointed deputy director of clinical cancer care for Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University. In this new role, Buatti oversees and coordinates all clinical activities in Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center. As deputy director, Buatti reports to Cancer Center Director George Weiner, and to the chief executive officer of UI Hospitals and Clinics. Buatti will continue to serve as professor and head of radiation oncology.
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