March 2009

march 31
UI honors student Rachel Nathanson wins 2009 Truman Scholarship
march 26
UI Graduate College awards dissertation prizes
Four UI faculty members win top teaching award
KRUI student radio celebrates 25th anniversary
MEDIA ADVISORY: UI, Iowa City to hold alcohol summit Friday
March 25
Annual tribute to women at the UI to be held April 1
march 24
Obermann Center kicks off 'Dinner Conversations' with UI faculty April 16
Journalist and hip-hop activist Harry Allen to speak at UI April 1
march 23
Graduate students present research and civic engagement efforts March 28
Differential equations in the sciences subject of March 24 lecture
March 20
Students to perform random acts of kindness as part of leadership academy
March 19
Tickets go on sale March 23 for Joffrey Ballet benefit for Hancher/School of Music
President Mason's budget update to the Board of Regents
march 18
MEDIA ADVISORY: More than 20 UI Museum of Art paintings return to Iowa
march 17
Additional feedback posted to UI Budget Web site
march 16
Catalyst Award diversity seed grants announced
Pohaku marketing firm is newest tenant at UI Technology Innovation Center
march 13
UI to begin offering new Certificate in Sustainability in fall 2009
UI evaluates replacement for two flood-damaged building complexes
UI announces recipients of its Presidential Scholarship, valued at $52,000
UI Museum of Natural History presents 'Identification Day' March 28
march 12
UI officials provide budget-planning update
march 10
Regents ponder resolution to freeze salaries
UI seeks pledges from computer users to 'Power Down for the Planet'
march 9
Students sought for interactive theater to address sexual assault, violence
march 6
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
Peregrine Charities gives $100,000 for UI pediatric research
March 4
Endowed UI professorship named for Keech; Drack named to position
UI Libraries digitizes women's physical education image collection
march 3
Mason addresses General Assembly Education Appropriations Subcommittee
Submitted budget suggestions now available online
March 2
UI Museum of Art to open IMU and Levitt Center galleries; receives NEH grant
University of Iowa receives ADDY Awards
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march 27
Report finds injuries a leading cause of death in Iowa
march 26
Four UI faculty members win top teaching award
March 25
'Inspiring Soles' winner benefits Iowa Marrow Donor Program
Public invited to discuss health care reform April 2
march 19
Wireless technology could boost hand hygiene compliance
UI medical students receive residency assignments on 'Match Day'
march 17
Cognitive training lowers the risk of worsening depressive symptoms
march 16
Spitz receives grant to study potential new cancer treatment
MEDIA ADVISORY: UI Carver College of Medicine Match Day is March 19
march 13
Study finds school buses among safest way to travel in Iowa
march 12
College of Public Health dean appointed to U.S. health task force
March 11
Eye donation: a gift that gives twice
march 10
UI Health Care leaders announce voluntary cost reduction moves
New insights on heart's 'fight or flight' response to stress
Children, teens most likely to survive nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Study links inflammation and calcium signaling in heart attack
march 9
State Health Registry provides latest on cancer in Iowa
UI helps advance colorectal cancer awareness
Welsh named founding director of UI Institute for Biomedical Discovery
Lone Tree clinic expands hours, adds provider
march 6
Peregrine Charities gives $100,000 for UI pediatric research
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
march 5
UI study: electronic medical data improves operating room scheduling
March 4
News briefing on 'Cancer In Iowa: 2009' is March 9
march 3
Correction: UI nursing professionals named to 'Great Iowa Nurses' list
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march 31
UI postgraduate writer is the brains behind the Mission Creek Festival
April 7 event at the Englert Theatre will roll out 'City of Literature' vision
march 27
New UI Press book, available April 1, describes the life of a physician
Honor Moore will read from 'The Bishop's Daughter' April 9
march 26
V.V. Ganeshananthan will read from 'Love Marriage' April 7
March 25
Poets Buchanan and Stonecipher, Writers' Workshop alumnae, will read April 6
New UI Press book travels the Upper Iowa River
march 24
New UI Press book advocates the methodology of 'Deep Travel'
march 23
'Parlor-style' performance features work by British women poets April 4
March 20
National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Herrera credits Writers' Workshop
UI guest artists Muir and McElhinney present simultaneous lectures March 31
UI Department of Dance presents 'Sadie Hawkins Dance' thesis concert April 2-4
march 19
Tickets go on sale March 23 for Joffrey Ballet benefit for Hancher/School of Music
University Symphony will present operatic excerpts and tenor arias March 31
UI Center for New Music presents Festival of Contemporary Music, April 2-5
Kantorei and University Singers present joint UI concert April 5
Writers' Workshop faculty members D'Ambrosio and Brockmeier read April 3
march 12
UI Camerata Singers will present a free concert March 27
Cellist Arnone will be joined by pianist Lovelace in March 28 UI recital
Stoltzman Performs 'Salute To Benny Goodman' April 3, presented by Hancher
March 11
UI Press releases three new volumes of literary scholarship March 15
Poet Taggart, guest of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, reads March 26
'Percussion Spectacular' will be performed March 29 at the UI
march 10
2009 Iowa Summer Writing Festival is now accepting registrations
march 6
UI Press releases cancer-survival memoir March 15
march 5
New UI Press book, available March 15, explores the life of the Amish
March 4
Academy of Ancient Music performs Bach's 'Brandenburg' Concertos March 25
march 3
Raskin will screen his Academy Award finalist at the UI March 11
March 2
UI Museum of Art to open IMU and Levitt Center galleries; receives NEH grant
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march 31
Henry Fund wins stock portfolio competition again
UI honors student Rachel Nathanson wins 2009 Truman Scholarship
March 30
Paul Heyn remembered with UI youth entrepreneurship scholarships
march 27
Despite economic crisis, investment banks still hiring UI finance students
march 26
TIAA-CREF chief Ferguson urges continued investment in higher education
Four UI faculty members win top teaching award
march 24
New partnership helps MBA students earn investment profession designation
march 13
UI economic forecaster sees continued slowing in Iowa economy
march 10
Two top economists to analyze U.S. economy in UI appearances this month
march 6
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
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march 24
Law school conference commemorates 20 years of Critical Race Theory
march 16
Nobel laureate Krugman to deliver law school's Levitt Lecture
march 12
Rock and Roll Law School: LawLawPalooza celebrates 15 years of music and charity
March 11
City managers to discuss their troubles at UI conference
march 10
Two top economists to analyze U.S. economy in UI appearances this month
march 3
Law class works on human trafficking issues
March 2
Learning from the headlines; law school class to examine economic crisis
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march 25
Annual tribute to women at the UI to be held April 1
march 12
UI future teachers mentor students through school district collaboration
March 11
Belin-Blank Center honors Iowa youth with Scholastic Art Awards
march 6
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
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march 31
UI honors student Rachel Nathanson wins 2009 Truman Scholarship
march 27
Depew presents at Catholic creation-evolution conference in Rome
march 26
Four UI faculty members win top teaching award
March 25
Study shows summer jobs may help prevent suicidal tendencies in at-risk teens
UI School of Social Work celebrates Bill Sackter Day April 13
Annual tribute to women at the UI to be held April 1
march 24
UI's new Delta Center will explore new ways of studying learning and development
march 23
'Parlor-style' performance features work by British women poets April 4
Differential equations in the sciences subject of March 24 lecture
UI physicists help find evidence for new particle of matter
march 12
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences names Dean's Scholars, Collegiate Scholar
march 10
UI study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'
march 6
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
march 3
Iowa Gallup Award seeks nominations for excellent journalism using polls
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march 27
Two UI engineers win prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards
march 25
Annual tribute to women at the UI to be held April 1
March 11
Engineering college announces engineering summer camps for youth
march 6
UI, ISU, UNI to highlight undergraduate research in Des Moines March 9
March 4
Researchers receive $389,303 grant to study effects of tiny industrial particles
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march 31
Budget site receives 400th e-mail
IMU footbridge to remain closed until fall
White and D'Ambrosio read April 4
Havens to discuss TV portrayals of African America life April 6
Annual Latin dance festival, Gusto Latino, to take place April 10
March 30
Herr receives Midwest Nursing Research Society research award
Currie receives American Pharmacists Association award
Graduate Student Symposium April 3-4 explores 'Art and Catastrophe'
Alumni Association hosts campus scavenger hunt For S.T.A.T. Medallion
march 27
New marrow donors can sign up April 1
John Calvin subject of April 3 'Finding God' Forum
UI Sonia Kovalevsky Day encourages women to study mathematics April 4
Osher classes on fiction and civic engagement begin April 6 and 7
march 26
Free fitness assessments available March 31
Devour a good book at International Edible Books Festival April 1
Public Property on Iowa Public Radio's 'Java Blend' Apr. 3
Wilson reads from new UI Press poetry collection April 8
'Feminists, Freaks and Fairies' photography exhibit opens April 10
March 25
New issue of 91st Meridian online literary journal in now available
Spaghetti lunch fundraiser March 28 to help Heat Native American Fund
Osher offers behind-the-scenes opportunity with Richard Stoltzman April 3
march 24
UI summer program can help children with speech and reading needs
UI professor is president-elect of national organization
UI College of Education Diversity Committee garners national award for efforts
The Great Lakes Myth Society on Iowa Public Radio's 'Java Blend' March 27
UI students to take 'Polar Plunge' for Special Olympics March 28
King to speak on Iraq Education Initiative March 30
Gallery series presents 'The House of Grateful' April 2-4
march 23
Carmichael to deliver World Meteorological Day talk today
Public invited to attend wind energy seminar March 26
Performance poetry class begins March 31
Lecture to examine graphic design and faith March 31
Iowa City Mini Medical School examines cardiovascular disease
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival set for April 9-11
March 20
UI Staff Council presents diversity celebration March 25
Composers Workshop will present new student compositions March 29
Religious Studies offers open house for prospective students March 30
Old Capitol Museum presents 'Beatrix Potter & Friends' events April 4, 11
Lecuona and students perform for 'Piano Sundays' April 5
Iowa Lakeside Lab to offer summer writing workshop July 6-10
march 19
Mandarin Chinese classes for families begin March 28
Museum of Natural History to screen 'America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie' April 5
march 18
UI injury prevention researcher receives national honor
UI History of Medicine talk on eugenics in the Midwest is March 24
Lux reads from history of progressivism March 29
Minnesota poet Dobby Gibson reads April 1
march 17
Mandarin Chinese community classes begin week of March 23
Writers' Workshop alumnus Holden reads poetry March 24
Pearl reads from new mystery March 26
march 16
UI to test outdoor warning system March 20
UI alumna to discuss community-owned tourism in developing countries March 25
Speaker will discuss visual impact of lynching March 26
march 13
UI receives family planning training grant
Gotkowitz awarded John E. Fagg prize for 'A Revolution for Our Rights'
Akyea to discuss Cuban travels, Afro-Cuban dance March 23
TIAA-CREF's Ferguson to discuss economy, higher education in lecture March 25
D'Ambrosio to present 'Slick Story' for March 27 Faculty Lecture Series
Children can hear Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' at Old Capitol Museum March 29
Community seminar to focus on women's bladder health March 31
march 12
Sandler advising state task force examining policy on mentally disabled adults
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognizes staff accomplishments
March 11
UI public lectures celebrating International Year of Astronomy continue March 25
Zach Savich, winner of Iowa Poetry Prize, reads March 25
march 10
Cedar Rapids girl honored as Children's Miracle Network Champion
Singer-songwriter Anya Marina on Iowa Public Radio's 'Java Blend' March 13
march 9
Class on the Qur'an begins March 19
Campus, public invited to UI forum on flood mitigation March 26
march 6
Books on Ponseti clubfoot treatment and its creator help fund research
Robinson receives geriatric psychiatry award
UI physician elected to national orthopedic surgery board
Group invites flood victims to use writing for healing
SCOPE Productions presents Dierks Bentley concert April 23
march 5
Moeller named Tippie associate dean of undergraduate program
University of Iowa Health Care cancer tip: Get screened for colon cancer
Women's History Reception at UI March 10
UI community invited to March 12 session on Iowa City-Chicago Amtrak proposal
March 4
UI's Gompper wins Arts and Letters 'Academy Award'
UI to conduct prairie burn Thursday morning
Printmaker Dove will lecture March 9
UI law student to argue actual case before Iowa Supreme Court March 10
march 3
Shah to discuss exploitation of foreign workers at March 5 luncheon
Law professor to discuss 'Jena Six' legal defense in lecture March 6
CAB Night Hawks presents 'A Night on the Boardwalk' March 6
Eko to discuss legal analysis of Internet law and policies March 9
Careers for Change lecture to feature Anne Fadiman March 9
Wangeman to discuss venture capital from the investor's viewpoint March 12
UI student to participate in 2009 Peace Camp in Jordan March 25-April 5
March 2
Lutgendorf will lead American Institute of Indian Studies
UI heart and stroke prevention study seeks participants
Students graduate from UI Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
UI Student Health Fair at the Field House March 4
Mathematics schedules lecture series March 4-6
A few tickets remain for March 11 Musicians from Marlboro concert
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