Mission In pursuing its missions of teaching, research, and service, the university seeks to advance scholarly and creative endeavor through leading-edge research and artistic production; to use this research and creativity to enhance undergraduate, graduate, and professional education, health care, and other services provided to the people of Iowa, the nation, and the world; and to educate students for success and personal fulfillment in a diverse world.
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Our values In planning, setting priorities, and carrying out every aspect of its mission, the University of Iowa is guided by these seven interdependent commitments:. Community We recognize that people make our institution what it is. Diversity We achieve excellence through recruiting, retaining, and advancing a diverse community, building an inclusive and accessible campus in which each of our unique social identities are valued, and ensuring our policies and practices are equitable and eliminate disparities.
Excellence We are committed to the highest quality of teaching and learning, research and discovery, and service and outreach. Integrity We understand the importance of doing what is right, even when it is not easy or popular. Learning We believe learning permeates all that we do. Respect We recognize the innate value of each individual.
Responsibility We strive to be dependable, trustworthy, and accountable. Office of the President. By , the name confusion that Ladd predicted became reality, frustrating SUI officials. Howard Bowen 35PhD , by then president of the Iowa City campus, had an answer: Shorten the name of SUI in everyday usage to the University of Iowa, while retaining its full, original name for legal and other purposes.
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The blood substitute, extracted from donated human blood and chemically altered, will potentially stretch the blood supply and reduce the risk of contracting blood-borne infection. Voyager 2 approached Neptune in and will continue sending information to earth until Freedman announces he is leaving the University to become president of Dartmouth College. Richard D. Remington, vice president for academic affairs and distinguished professor of preventive medicine and environmental health, is appointed interim president.
Andreasen is the first woman to receive the award. Paul Engle and Hualing Nieh step down as directors of the program. Georgakakos created the system for flash flood prediction used by the National Weather Service. Frank, Donald A. Gurnett, and Dwight R. Nicholson present expert testimony to the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications in a hearing on the long-range goals of the U. Target will renew its support for the next seven years, until the University ends the program in June The program sponsored more than 1, events and served 75, to , Iowans annually.
The multidisciplinary center, the largest of its type in the United States, is directed by Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry. Gurnett to design, build, and operate a plasma wave instrument to study the northern lights. Drawing on the expertise of faculty in the Colleges of Business Administration, Dentistry, Engineering, and Medicine, the institute is expected to accelerate the transfer of accumulated research findings in biomedical science and engineering to the Iowa economy.
The Crafoord Prize is widely regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The Pappajohns also create endowment funds for the operation of a comprehensive Clinical Cancer Center and for other programs at the University. Donelson, professor of biochemistry, for research on the tropical parasite that causes sleeping sickness; Michael J. Welsh, professor of internal medicine and physiology, for research on the lining in the airways of the lung that may shed light on the cellular defect in people with cystic fibrosis; and Kevin P.
Campbell, professor of physiology, for isolating the protein dystrophin, whose absense has been shown to cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Devised by political science professor John Wright and economics professors Robert Forsythe, Forrest Nelson, and George Neumann, the IPSM in the next year will be used in the Netherlands, Den-mark, and Turkey, and will consistently fare better than most major professional polls.
Grant is named by the Institute for International Sport as one of 17 Ethics Fellows to study the state of ethics and sportsmanship in society and develop codes of ethics for athletics organizations. The dig is the first joint scientific project between the U. Anne Cleary. This year approximately 5, students participated in courses. Anne Cleary Walkway, linking the eastside residence halls to the Pentacrest and named for the former associate vice president for academic affairs who was killed in the shootings that claimed six lives.
MacArthur Foundation for her work studying Mayan linguistics and preserving Mayan culture. Among the closest calls was the campus water treatment plant, where crews worked round the clock to ensure a safe water supply. The program is the first in what is hoped to be a network of clinics designed to make health care more accessible to rural Iowans.
Henri Manasse, former interim vice chancellor for health services at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is named to the post.
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