Spectator - Monthly News for UI Alumni and Friends

Skip to Site Navigation Links
Skip to Features
Skip to Iowa News Highlights
Skip to Campus Links
Skip to Alumni-Related News links

Generations of UI Scottish Highlanders will gather on campus Sept. 1-4, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the group that gave Hawkeye football games some highland flavor, but also represented the University across the country and abroad. More

Related: Old Gold highlights the highlanders More

WRITING

Workshop celebrates milestone anniversary

For 75 years, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has offered both proving ground and haven for some of the literary world's leading lights. This summer, many will return for an alumni symposium and a public keynote by Marilynne Robinson. More

PODCAST

From Iraq to Iowa

In the March edition of Iowa Insights, meet Sabah Hussein Enayah, a graduate student and mother of three who's pursuing her dream of rebuilding a war-torn nation. More

HEALTH CARE

New children's hospital plan approved

The Iowa Board of Regents has approved plans to build a new, $270 million University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City. More

ACADEMICS

Exploring the legal side of sports

A successful pro sports team needs talented attorneys along with great athletes and innovative coaches. A new student group and class are helping UI law students prepare for careers in the field. More

GENETICS

Team examines the “junk” in human genes

A new UI study finds that a particular type of repetitive DNA segment—sometimes termed “junk DNA”—can alter rates of protein production and may contribute to the evolution of biological characteristics in different species. More

Related: Duplicate genes may be essential for water flea More

EXHIBIT

Museum of Art show highlights New York counterculture

Lil Picard and Counterculture New York opens the UI Museum of Art's spring semester, showcasing 70 original works and recreating audio and video installations in the Iowa Memorial Union's Black Box Theater and an interactive online catalog. More

BUSINESS

Merger waves seek to manage risk

A UI analysis shows that while corporations employ mergers and acquisitions to increase revenue or market share, they also use them as a way to cope with volatility in their industries. More

MATH SKILLS

Web-based tools for maximizing math potential

Two new online resources from the UI College of Education will help teachers and parents determine whether students are on track to reach their full math potential. More

ATHLETICS

Mason appoints two faculty athletics representatives

UI President Sally Mason has appointed faculty members Gene Parkin and Ellie Herman to advise her on athletics issues, monitor compliance with NCAA rules, and represent the University at national meetings and conferences. More

BOOKS

UI Press releases Iowa Poetry Prize winners

The University of Iowa Press has released L.S. Klatt's Cloud of Ink and Julie Hanson's Unbeknownst, cowinners of the Iowa Poetry Prize—one of the leading national awards open to new and established poets.

Klatt: news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/february/022111klatt_uipress.html
Hanson: news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/February/022511UIPress.html

MENTAL HEALTH

Schizophrenia drugs may trigger brain tissue loss

Using magnetic resonance imaging to track brain volume over time, UI researchers have found that antipsychotic drugs commonly used to treat schizophrenia appear linked to loss of brain tissue in some patients. More

“Peggy Guggenheim would be proud of Iowa!”

Sean O’Harrow, director of the UI Museum of Art, after the Iowa legislature dropped a bill calling for the sale of Jackson Pollock’s Mural, a painting donated to the UI by Guggenheim in 1951 (Huffington Post, Feb. 23).

More UI national news

“At the time there was a small number of doctors who had an interest in stuttering, and there were no communication therapists. One doctor told me to put my feet in a bucket of cold water every evening for 15 minutes.”

Israeli-born Ehud Yairi, international expert on stuttering who received master’s and doctoral degrees from Iowa and stuttered himself as a child, on the state of stuttering research in the 1950s (Harretz, Feb. 18).