2008 Woodie Awards
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield will probably never re-offer the UI College of Public Health its $15 million gift proposal that the company withdrew after a naming-rights controversy, said school Dean James Merchant, adding that the controversy was "regrettable."
And with the groundbreaking of the public-health school's new $47.7 million building on Oct. 12, the college is now looking more to the public for support.
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The state council of the Service Employees International Union, as well as the union's councils from nine other states, endorsed former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination at a rally on the UI's medical campus Monday. (0) comments
A UI researcher and his colleagues have found that some virus strains, common culprits for stomach flu or colds, cause more serious illnesses than others in both civilian and military populations.
In one of the biggest studies of adenoviruses in the United States to date, the researchers surveyed 2,237 samples from military and civilian patients between 2004 and 2006.
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For UI freshman Elise Kemerley, midterm exams didn't go as well as she had hoped. The self-described "straight-A student" has kept the same study habits since high school, but her test scores weren't up to par, she said.
She made straight C's on three midterms.
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The role of technology and food in globalization and crisis relief served as two of the main topics Philip Nelson covered at two lectures on campus Monday.
Nelson, who works in the Department of Food Science at Purdue University, has become world-renowned for his aseptic packaging and processing that allows large amounts of food, specifically tomatoes and orange juice, to be delivered worldwide with the same taste and nutritional value.
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The city's cash-balance policy, involving how taxes would be used according to Moody's standards, was one of the main topics Monday evening during the Iowa City City Council's work session.
One councilor was concerned about the percentages of interest rates and money left over at the end of the year.
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While there has been a decrease in the total number of abortions worldwide, there has been no change in the unsafe abortion rate, according to a study released by the Guttmacher Institute on Oct. 13.
The study by the nonprofit organization examined abortion trends from 1995 to 2003 and showed that 48 percent of the procedures worldwide were deemed unsafe, with 97 percent of those occurred in developing regions in which abortions are illegal.
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The controversial UI chalking policy has spurred one UI Student Government senator to work with university administrators to amend the policy.
UI junior Casey Koschmeder has set up a chalking forum to take place Oct. 25 to allow student organization leaders to brainstorm and develop a new chalking policy.
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Many UI students and Iowa City residents may remember the solemn yet vibrant display of more than 450 hanging T-shirts in the Pentacrest lawn in April, a tribute to female victims of sexual and domestic violence.
The annual awareness campaign, known as "The Clothesline Project" and hosted by the Rape Victim Advocacy Program, will have a 21 percent increase in the number of shirts this year - representative of the rise in crisis calls RVAP has received from 2006 to 2007.
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Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation's leading law scholars, discussed the conservative, pro-business slant of the current Supreme Court, its past decisions, and his predictions for this year's term to a crowd of approximately 150 in the Boyd Law Building on Monday afternoon. (0) comments
While university sports clubs don't normally request money from UI Student Government, Title IX has left the men's rowing club with insufficient equipment, members said.
As a result, UISG will debate the unusual $9,000 request at this evening's Senate meeting.
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Students attending Iowa universities and colleges are depending more on student loans and less on grants and scholarships to cover tuition, according to the Iowa College Student Aid Commission.
And they are also racking up a hefty bill along the way.
UI senior Megan Bartlett said that in the past four years, she has taken out a little under $20,000 in federal loans.
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Nearly 65 percent of people who are eligible for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator aren't receiving one, according to a recent study.
But UI experts say no one reason explains the discrepancy, noting that it could be anything from a lack of information about the health device to various economic barriers.
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