The first Iowan - a young boy from northwestern Iowa - has been diagnosed with West Nile virus this year, Iowa Department of Public Health officials said Wednesday. The UI Hygienic Laboratory confirmed the testing. The young boy is doing well and recovering at home, officials said. Though this is the first confirmed human case of West Nile this year in Iowa, health officials have already detected the virus in 14 counties around the state so far. All 14 counties have found birds that tested positive for the disease, but other homes for the virus included a horse, a chicken, and two mosquito pools.
The show will go on for the UI's historic, 40-year-old show-choir group, the Old Gold Singers, which was recently granted independent student-organization status by UI Student Government after being ousted from the School of Music. "We want to keep an age-old group alive," said Kyle Greenlee, the group's treasurer.
If you've ever wondered about the street signs designating Iowa City as a "Nuclear Weapon Free Zone," you're probably not alone. The signs, which pepper various entry points into Iowa City, are older than much of the UI student population and predate some longtime city officials.
Students' college years can provide opportunities to develop credit for the years ahead, but the U.S. House of Representatives is reviewing a bipartisan bill that may limit college students' credit growth. Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter, D-N.Y. and Rep. John Duncan Jr., R-Tenn., introduced a bill earlier this year to keep creditors from taking unfair advantage of full-time, traditional-aged college students.
Three weeks after being served with a lawsuit contending that public land had been illegally rezoned before being sold to Wal-Mart, the Iowa City Board of Adjustments has finally responded. In the 50-page response, board members said they were taking all precautions in the construction planning, and they had contacted all property owners within 300 feet of the site in question.
Difficulty in getting access to contraception may have some young women looking at abortion as their only means of birth control, local reproductive-rights advocates said. Many high-school and college women who are concerned about putting birth-control methods on their parents' insurance have no other way of paying for pills or the shot, leaving abortion as a way to prevent pregnancy.
Julie Karceski, one of the three captains of the UI TriHawks Triathlon team, must get her shuteye. "I am really anal about my sleep," she said. "I have to get eight hours every night." The UI junior carries a full schedule that includes volunteering at the UI Hospitals and Clinics, participating in Dance Marathon, working in a Seamans Center lab and mentoring two engineering students.
Although he was one of 2,000 students, UI sophomore Ryan McHugh still managed to secure a job at last year's Student Job Fair. He did not get hired on the spot, as did many students, but he landed an interview and then a job working at Burge Residence Hall cafeteria.
Students nationwide, citing textbook costs as a "worrisome" expense, are finding more ways to dodge shelling out money for the stacks of books, according to a national survey released Wednesday. Fifty-five percent of students said they have to dip into their savings accounts to pay for books, according to the survey by Half.
Meredith Hay, the new UI vice president for Research, will visit several cities in Iowa this fall to discuss the economic effect the university has on the state. The visits, sparked by a "need to engage the entire state of Iowa" about how the university's presence directly affects Iowa's economic development, will include at least eight cities, she said.
When local emergency personnel need to resuscitate patients, they'll probably use the Physio-Control Lifepak 12 to shock them back to life. Automated external defibrillators such as the ones employed by the Iowa City Fire Department and the Johnson County Ambulance Service are becoming increasingly popular, but experts still stress manually administered CPR as imperative.
UI researchers receive grant Two UI researchers were recently awarded a two-year, $387,187 grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study fetal alcohol syndrome, officials announced Wednesday. Bahri Karaçay, an associate research scientist in pediatrics, and Associate Professor Daniel Bonthius, will expand on their previous research to examine why parts of the human brain are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol during early development.
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