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• American Business Women’s Association scholarships—For graduate students. Applications due March 9, 2007.
  
  The Grant Wood Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association will be awarding several scholarships for higher education to qualified candidates for the 2007-2008 academic year. The candidates may be
  male or female, but must reside in or be from Johnson County, Iowa.
  
  Download application information:
  Letter of invitation    Scholarship Guidelines    Application
   

• Nominations for the the 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award due February 12, 2007.

The Graduate Student Senate is excited to announce the 2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award. This award is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Graduate College recognizes graduate students who show exceptional mentorship of undergraduates and junior graduate students in their assistantships.

This award is aimed at graduate students who work closely with others in research and other settings across the university, and is open to graduate students in the Biological & Health Sciences; Humanities and Fine Arts; Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering; and Social Sciences and Education. One first place award and one second place award will be given in each of these divisions.

The first place award will include a $175 prize and second place will include a $75 prize. Honorable Mentions will also be awarded. Awards will be announced on March 31, 2007 at the awards ceremony for the James F. Jakobsen Graduate Student Conference, however, students do not need to participate in the Jakobsen Conference to be nominated for this award.

Nominations may be initiated by the graduate student’s faculty advisor or another faculty member or supervisor. All materials are due February 12, 2007. Complete instructions for the nominations process can be found on the Graduate Student Senate website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~gss/award

Please help us spread the word about this important award, and encourage your faculty to nominate outstanding graduate student mentors and discuss this award with your students. If you have any questions, please contact Jessica Horst at jessica-horst@uiowa.edu.

Sincerely,

Jessica Horst
Vice President
Graduate Student Senate

• Information on programs, services, and funding for students with children.

        Social Events for Students with Children

The next event is a family fun Saturday, January 20 at 3:00 pm. Snacks will be served. Let them know that they can meet other student families.
http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv/kiosk/network.shtml

Student Parent List serve

This list serve advertises services and programs for student families. To join, address an e-mail message to listserv@list.uiowa.edu (note there is no “e” at the end of listserv) Put the following in the body of the message:

subscribe STUDENTSWITHKIDS yourfirstname yourlastname

You will receive an e-mail in return confirming that you wish to join the list. Once you respond to this message, you’ll be on.
http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv/kiosk/network.shtml

Resources and Help for Academic Success

For students needing a computer, looking to inform your professors of your family responsibilities, or seeking career help.        http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv/kiosk/index.shtml

Several NEW Child Care Programs

Available now: funding to help pay for a babysitter evenings/weekends so that you can study, write a paper, prepare for exams, participate in a study group, etc. If you have not already applied and do use a babysitter evenings/weekend, request an application by emailing
jane-holland@uiowa.edu or by calling 335-1371.

(an) Occasional Care (back-up) Child Care Resource

This service helps when children are ill, a school closes for bad weather, intermittent care is needed to meet a deadline or parents want a Saturday night out.
http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv/ccs/mildill.html

Summer School-age Child Care and Camps

A listing of summer school-age child care and camp resources. http://www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv/ccs/index.shtml

If you have questions about services for student families, please contact Jane Holland at jane-holland@uiowa.edu
or 335-1371.
 

Upcoming Thesis Defense Dates

        Click here for a list of upcoming thesis defenses.

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Krishnan wins 2006 L.B. Sims Award

A University of Iowa master's student has won the L.B. Sims Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from the Graduate College. Chandramouli Krishnan, who received his Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from The University of Iowa in July 2006, won the award.

Established in 2005 to recognize and reward distinguished scholarship at the master’s level at The University of Iowa, the L.B. Sims Outstanding Master's Thesis award carries a $500 honorarium and the winning thesis is nominated by the University of Iowa for the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master's Thesis Award.

Krishnan's work was chosen from among a competitive pool of high quality master’s theses nominated for this award, demonstrating the impressive level of research conducted by graduate students at the University of Iowa.

Krishnan, now working toward a Ph.D. at Iowa, has made an impact in his field with research that reveals important differences in the ways females and males use thigh muscles, with implications for changes in training protocol and injury risk assessment.

Glenn Williams, Krishnan's thesis advisor, is Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and Director of Research for the UI Sports Medicine Center.

According to Williams, Krishnan's thesis, “Quadriceps and Hamstrings Muscle Control in Athletic Males and Females,” makes significant advancements in physical therapy, presenting compelling information on the risk of knee injury in female athletes.

“Female athletes are 4 to 6 times more likely to sustain severe knee injuries than male athletes under similar exposure to risk. Experts have long believed that the female predisposition to these injuries was due in part to neuromuscular differences," Williams said.

He says Krishnan's research is important because it "provides the best evidence to date that there are fundamental differences in voluntary muscle control in males and females that may impact injury risk. Moreover, the results suggest that females may need to be trained differently than males, which is generally not the case at this time.”

Before coming to the University of Iowa to begin his graduate education, Mr. Krishnan received his bachelor’s degree and a diploma in India.

The University of Iowa Graduate Program in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science has been ranked fifth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

More about the L.B. Sims award

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Click here for a full list of 2006-07 Graduate Council members

Click here for Meetings and Agendas (January 2006-Current meeting agenda)

Upcoming meetings: February 15

                         
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• Graduate College monthly newsletter archive
• Graduate College News—Fall 2006 issue
• Graduate College News—Spring 2006 issue
• Graduate College News—Archive