Regenia Bailey is Mayor Pro Tem and City Councilor in Iowa City. She is Consultant and Coach for Bailey Leadership Initiatives.
Kenneth G. Brown, Ph.D. is currently UI Huneke Faculty Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business. Professor Brown conducts research on learning and motivation and their relationships to needs assessment and evaluation practices. His research on employee learning via Internet technology has been recognized with awards from both the American Society of Training and Development and the Society of Human Resource Management. The recipient of both collegiate and university teaching awards, Professor Brown recently began to incorporate service learning into his courses. In these courses, upper-level undergraduate students have consulted with local nonprofits including the Johnson County Crisis Center, the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program, the Englert Theatre, the Iowa Children's Museum, and the Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
Barbara Eckstein is UI Professor of English and Interim Associate Provost for Academic Administration at the University of Iowa. Her two books address the interaction of storytelling and the production of urban spaces. Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice, and Possibility for American Cities (2003), co-edited with James Throgmorton of the Urban Planning program at the University of Iowa, is available from MIT Press. Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City (2005) is available from Routledge. She is currently directing the project “An Endangered River Runs through Us: Three Iowa River Journeys.” Each is a guided tour of a portion of the river with site visits combined with talks and readings by experts and writers.
Katherine Eberle is a Professor of Music at the U of I, where she chaired the School of Music Voice Area for seven years. Her career includes a wide array of professional and collegiate engagements in both the United States and abroad. She specializes in oratorio, chamber music, art song, and opera. In addition to the standard repertoire, Eberle has worked to expand the boundaries of vocal performance, from staging seldom heard works and the work of lesser known composers to developing new and unconventional repertoire for voice and solo instrument. Eberle researched and assembled an unusual collection of art songs by women composers, which has been well received in numerous concerts. She produced a compact disk recording of several of these works in 1993, entitled From a Woman’s Perspective published by Vienna Modern Masters.
Jean Florman Before joining the UI Center for Teaching staff, Associate Director Jean Florman taught nature and science writing and freelance writing at the University and worked as a writer and public radio producer. Her work has appeared in national magazines and newspapers, and on KUNI Public Radio, as well as in publications for McGraw-Hill, Meredith Publishing, the UI Foundation, and many University of Iowa schools and colleges. She has published two books and has degrees in anthropology and law.
Eric Gidal is Associate Professor of English at UI. His teaching and scholarship focus on English romanticism as a mode of artistic expression rooted in the eighteenth century, especially relationship between literature and the visual arts during the period and in the emergence of the aesthetic as a secular category of ethical experience and communal identification. These issues coalesce in Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum (Bucknell University Press, 2001), a study of the British Museum during its first century (1753-1856) as a focal point of contemporary aesthetics and ideological debates. He is a co-curator of the exhibition “William Blake at 250.”
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. is Associate Vice Chancellor for Community Partnerships, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for Communications and Community at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the Farther to Go: Reading and Cases in African-American Politics (Harcourt Brace) and, with Shanto Iyengar, the forthcoming Race, Television News, and American Politics: Script-based Reasoning about Crime and Welfare (Princeton University Press) along with many articles. He is also a political analyst for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles and national newspapers, frequently commenting on national, state, and local politics.
John E. Grant is co-editor and contributor to Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic (1970) and William Blake's Designs for Young's Night Thoughts (1980) and is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on Blake. He is an Emeritus Professor of the UI English Department and co-curator of the exhibition “William Blake at 250.”
Ann Haydock is an Iowa Arts Fellow and MFA candidate in Film and Video Production. She has screened documentary, experimental, and hybrid works at festivals and curated events in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the U.K. Her creative and research interests include early documentary forms and theory, transgendered images of femininity, steganography, and dead and dying mediums.
Mary Lynn Johnson (Grant) is co-author of Blake's 'Four Zoas': The Design of a Dream (1978) and has contributed essays to the collections Historicising Blake (1994), The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003), and Women Reading William Blake (2007). She is a co-curator of the exhibition “William Blake at 250.”
Susan R. Johnson is the UI Associate Provost for Faculty. She received her B.S., M.D., and an M.S. in Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa where she is now Professor. In 1999 she received a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health. Dr. Johnson’s clinical and research interests are in the areas of menopausal health issues, particularly the use of hormones and other drugs for prevention in post menopausal women, and premenstrual syndromes. She is currently the Study Chair for the NIH sponsored observational study of the menopause transition, Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN). She is active on the state and national level in the licensing and credentialing of physicians; she currently serves on the Executive Board of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and on several committees of the Federation of State Medical Boards.
Craig Just is an Associate Research Engineer at IIHR – Hydroscience and
Engineering at UI and is Vice President for Research and Development at Ecolotree®, Inc. With graduate degrees in environmental science and chemistry, Dr. Just has excelled at the interface of environmental analytical chemistry and applied engineering in support of and leading top-quality research projects the areas of: phytoremediation of explosives; water quality and cyberinfrastructure; fate determination of contaminants during wastewater treatment; and poverty reduction and community building in poorer countries such as Guatemala, Mexico and Haiti.
Lola Lopes is the Interim Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Iowa. She formerly served as Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, following her career as a professor in the College of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California-San Diego. Her areas of research and teaching include judgment and decision-making, organizational behavior, and cognition and management.
Tom Moore is the Executive Director of the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa.
Lyle Muller is the Iowa City editor for the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Jim Peterson was born and raised in Iowa City and graduated from the University of Iowa with B.A. and M.A. Degrees in Spanish. He has owned or worked for various telephone, cable TV and data network operators as an engineering technician, Project Engineer, General Manager, VP of Operations, President, Owner and Consultant. He has worked in Iowa, Africa, the Philippines, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe. More recently he has developed commercial and residential rental properties in partnership with other Iowa Citians and tried his hand at “Angel Investing” As a member and current President of Eastern Iowa Angel Investors, LC. Since becoming a Rotarian in 2000 he has been active in various international projects in Mexico and Central America, including serving as coordinator for the Xicotepec, Mexico Project for four years.
Gregory Prickman is Special Collections Librarian at the UI Main Library and coordinator of the “William Blake at 250” exhibition.
Tom W. Rice is the Chair of Political Science at UI. His fields include Comparative Politics, American politics, political behavior, culture and politics. He has recently published articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Journal of Politics, and the American Political Science Review.
Hazel H. Seaba is the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Curriculum and a Professor (Clinical) at the UI College of Pharmacy. For about thirty years she was the Director of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy’s Division of Drug Information Service (DDIS). DDIS is the publisher of the Iowa Drug Information Service (IDIS). While at DDIS she developed the Iowa Drug Information Network and implemented a customized drug information training program for international pharmacists. She has authored several book chapters on drug information.
Joanna Schoen is UI Professor of History. Her major interests are the history of women and medicine, the history of reproductive rights, and the history of sexuality. Her recent book, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare, examines the role which birth control, sterilization, and abortion played in public health debates and public welfare policy between the 1920s and the 1970s. In 2002, she shared her research on the history of eugenic sterilization in North Carolina with a journalist from the Winston Salem Journal. North Carolina's sterilization program ran from the 1920s to the 1970s and led to the sterilization of more than 8000 people. The paper ran a week-long series of articles on the subject (http://againsttheirwill.journalnow.com/) which ultimately resulted in an official apology by the governor of North Carolina and the appointment of a commission which has since recommended reparations to those sterilized under the program.
Yolanda Villalvazo participated in the UI Medical Education Community Orientation (MECO) summer program, working with the Migrant Health Program run by Proteus, after joining the UI's Mobile Clinic and taking the Community Health Outreach elective course in her first year of medical school. She initiated collaboration between Proteus and the Mobile Clinic that resulted in a joint clinic held at the Williamsburg Migrant Worker Camp.
Jon Winet is an artist, researcher and teacher. He directs the Intermedia program in the UI School of Art and Art History, and is an Associate Professor in International Programs. He also is director of the Virtual Writing University Experimental Wing. In his creative practice, he produces collaborative projects revolving around politics, art, language and image in the Information Age. He is currently producing and directing "The Electoral College," a hybrid new media art | journalism project exploring the 2008 U.S. presidential election and democratic practice in America. In 2007 he was the recipient of The University of Iowa President's Award for State Outreach and Public Engagement." for his work on "Iowa City Senior Center Television Online!" and "Intermedia Artists in Community," a practice-based seminar placing art students in Iowa City non-profit organizations for semester-long internships.
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