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HELP FOR HAITI

Ann Campbell, a professor of management sciences, is an expert on transportation logistics, and one focus of her research is finding more efficient methods for governments, agencies, and businesses to transport relief supplies to victims in disaster areas.orium on the west campus and the School of Music's academic and performance space adjacent to the main east campus along South Clinton Street. More

Related: UI course offers students opportunities to learn from Haitian earthquake More

DRIVER RESEARCH

University of Iowa College of Engineering researchers will study how drivers interact with adaptive cruise control, thanks to an 18-month, $630,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. More

Related: UI survey finds parental support for proposed changes to teen driving laws More

STUDENT INVESTORS

The Henry Fund, the stock portfolio managed by finance students in The University of Iowa's Tippie MBA program, posted a gain of 33.6 percent in 2009, beating its benchmark S&P 500 by better than 7 percent. More

Related: Research finds that managing earnings causes more long-term harm than short-term good to stock price More

WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR

A new study by University of Iowa researchers lends credence to the idea that abusive supervisors who are productive have a long leash when it comes to bad behavior. More

RELATIONSHIPS

A new study suggests married couples are less likely than other couples to fight about jealousy--but when they do, it's much more damaging. University of Iowa sociologist Anthony Paik found that without jealous conflict, three-fourths of people surveyed were extremely satisfied with the emotional aspects of their marriage. Satisfaction dropped to less than half if jealousy entered the equation. More

NONPROFITS

Now in its 10th year, the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center has helped nearly 4,000 nonprofit organizations in the state provide needed services to Iowans. More

MEDICAL DISCOVERY

A University of Iowa study suggests that cells derived from bone marrow transplantation, a treatment commonly used for blood-based cancers such as leukemia, could be used to prevent transplanted organs from being rejected. Cells produced by the approach also may help treat conditions such as heart disease and liver failure. More

GENETICS AND SEX

Living organisms have good reason for engaging in sexual, rather than asexual, reproduction, according to Maurine Neiman, assistant professor of biology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and researcher in the Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics. More

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

University of Iowa spin-off company Terpenoid Therapeutics Inc., based in Coralville, Iowa, has secured nearly $2.5 million in both private investments and grants from the National Institutes of Health to advance cancer drug candidates toward commercialization. More

ARTS CAMPUS

On Feb. 4, the Iowa Board of Regents approved a University of Iowa plan to rebuild Hancher Auditorium and School of Music facilities in two locations, contingent on the University successfully negotiating the purchase of land in downtown Iowa City. More

Related: Podcast examines art museum's future More

ARTS AND LETTERS

Writer Clark Blaise, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and former director of the UI International Writing Program, has been elected an Officer of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor. More

Related: Registration open for Iowa Summer Writing Festival More

ATHLETIC ENDOWMENT

University of Iowa alumni Terry J. and Susan S. Mulligan of Bonita Springs, Fla., have given $209,000 to the UI Foundation to establish the first endowed scholarship for the UI men's swimming and diving team. More

DIVERSITY IN SPORTS

Black head coaches are few and far between in the National Football League, with only six African American head coaches currently leading one of the 32 teams despite vigorous league-wide efforts to increase diversity. But a new study by University of Iowa researchers finds little evidence of discrimination in the promotion of assistant coaches to head coach. More
For the Record

“Why would you mix up your genes at every generation when, in fact, you can pass 100 percent of your genes on every single time?”

University of Iowa evolutionary biologist Johns Logsdon, in an article on the bdelloid rotifer, a multicell organism believed to reproduce asexually (National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Jan. 29).

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Alumni Newsmakers

“I don’t lecture, I perform.”

Author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus T.C. Boyle on the eve of a book tour for Wild Child a collection of short stories (Daily Nexus, Jan. 22).

Old Gold
MOVING CALVIN HALL: REARRANGING THE PENTACREST

MOVING CALVIN HALL: REARRANGING THE PENTACREST

A turn-of the-century announcement by UI President George MacLean resulted in a moving experience for Calvin Hall. More

From the Iowa Alumni Magazine
THE ICEMAN COMETH

THE ICEMAN COMETH

Snowstorms make most of us shudder. But ice expert Wilf Nixon welcomes each arctic blast as a chance to make winter travel safer. More