OLLI Events Archive
Below is a list of programs that OLLI at Iowa has held in the past.
Wines of Iowa II
Dates: May 28 - June 25, 2008 Wednesdays 9:00am - 4:00pm Back by popular demand, Wines of Iowa II will take participants to wineries around the state. Each trip includes a lunch*, wine tasting, classes and tours (described on each date), and charter bus transport complete with film-viewing, air conditioning, and on-board lavatories. Whether you attended the first series or not, are a wine novice or a wine connoisseur, you are sure to have a great time! |
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May 28 - From the Beginning
Our journey begins where Iowa wineries began - Summerset Winery. Learn the history of Iowa Wineries from the owner of one of the oldest wineries in Iowa! Enjoy a catered lunch and some fine wines in Indianola, and tour the winery and vineyards.
For more information about Summerset Winery, visit their website.
June 4 - Wine With a Frosty Twist
Prairie Moon is one of the only wineries in Iowa to produce Ice Wines. Learn about the process, as well as about grape growing in Iowa, from this unique winery! You will have a chance to taste the ice wine and many other varieties in this Ames winery, and enjoy a meal on their scenic outdoor patio.
For more information about Prairie Moon Winery, visit their website.
June 11 - Family Legacies
At Fireside Winery, a family-owned-and-operated farm in Marengo, enjoy a light lunch, wine, and learn about wine and cheese pairing. Then visit John Ernest Winery in Tama to enjoy even more Iowa wine! Take a guided tour of the vineyard and winery that offers a ‘personalized experience’.
For more information about Fireside Winery, visit their website.
For more information about John Ernest Winery, visit their website.
June 18 - Creating Your Own Wine Masterpiece
Learn how to make wine at home with Bluestem Winery. Get hands-on experience while making a batch of wine. While your wine processes, enjoy a delectable lunch and wine tasting at the Victorian House in Parkersburg.
For more information about Bluestem Winery, visit their website.
June 25 - The Grape Wine Adventure
Ride through the vineyards on the Grapemobile at Tassel Ridge Winery! Enjoy a tour of the Leighton winery and discover the wine production process while exploring their state-of-the-art equipment. Taste the wine and dine on winery terrace.
For more information about Tassel Ridge Winery, visit their website.
Note: Tours of the wineries and vineyards will require standing or walking for longer periods of time, sometimes over uneven terrain.
View photos from last year's class series!
*Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.
Shakespeare: On Stage and Backstage
Since June of 2000, Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival (RTSF) has brought captivating performances to an outdoor theatre inspired by Shakespeare's Globe, attracting audiences from around the country. In partnership with RTSF, OLLI at Iowa is offering a special inside look at the Shakespeare experience through two 1-day Shakespeare Workshops!
Each workshop includes a class with Festival company members, a backstage tour, the Green Show (a 20-minute “Story Theatre” version of the evening play), and tickets to the performance.
Schedule:
4:00—5:30 Pre-performance Discussion
6:00—6:30 Back-stage Tour
6:30—7:00 Picnic Dinner (on site)
7:00—8:00 Green Show
8:00 Performance
The Winter’s Tale Workshop
Date: Thursday, June 26
Time: 4:00 - 10:00pm (break for dinner - picnic dinner available for purchase on site)
Cost: $60 (includes performance ticket)
Company members discuss the challenges of connecting the tragic and romantic worlds of the play, and spanning the sixteen years that separates them!
The Comedy of Errors Workshop
Date: Saturday, July 12
Time: 4:00 - 10:00pm (break for dinner - picnic dinner available for purchase on site)
Cost: $60 (includes performance ticket)
Learn how actors that only vaguely resemble each other can believably play identical twins. From costuming to movement to makeup, discover how actors and designers meet these challenges.
The Civically Engaged Reader
Dates: March 25 - April 29, 2008 Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00pm
Location: 5159 Westlawn
Cost: $50 per person (includes $27 book fee)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank
In this discussion series, students will read and reflect on a diverse collection of readings about civic activity. The Reader includes provocative selections of short stories, poetry, and essays. These readings are written by authors ranging from Aristotle to Martin Luther King Jr., Rousseau to Lincoln and are organized to
illuminate four principal activities of civically engaged life: associating, serving, giving and leading. The book is designed to invite and deepen reflection about civic
engagement, and in turn, empower participants to take action in their own communities. All students should be willing to complete assigned readings and participate in class discussions.
INSTRUCTOR: Peter E. Nathan, PhD is a UI professor emeritus of psychology and public health. His research throughout his career has focused on alcohol dependence - its diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and prevention. He has been most active civically in the community in his attempts to mobilize citizens to address the binge drinking culture.
University Treasures
Dates: Mar 31 - Apr 28, 2008 Mondays 9:00 - 10:30am
Cost: $30 per person
Did you know the UI campus is a treasure trove of rare books, special collections, archives, and chambers? Discover all of these unknown gems and more!
Shalla Wilson, Assistant Director for the Pentacrest Museums, will give a tour of the Old Capitol Museum, including a behind-the-scenes look at how the galleries were created and a chance to re-enact the founding of the State of Iowa in the House Chamber - normally off limits to the public.
Ed Holtum, Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences will guide us through the Rare Book Collection. With approximately 5,000 volumes of original works, representing classic contributions to the history of the health sciences from 1470 to the 20th century, the collection is one of the most outstanding of its kind.
The Iowa Women's Archives was founded in 1992 to collect and preserve the history of Iowa women. Kären Mason will talk about the archives’ founders and it’s
development. In a behind-the-scenes tour, participants will examine photos, diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and other items from collections - perhaps even doing
dramatic readings from the documents!
David McCartney, UI archivist, will give you a rare glimpse of the UI Library Special Collections, including a tour, demonstration of on-line resources, and discussion
highlighting collection items.
Take an exclusive behind the scenes look at the Giant Sloth excavation and research project at the Museum of Natural History with the team leader, David Brenzel. Also tour the Paleontology Repository in Trowbridge Hall and learn how these UI entities have joined forces.
Making Sense of Your Health
See More. Hear More. Do More.
University of Iowa Mini Medical School Spring 2008 Series
7pm - 9pm
April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2008
Medical Education and Research Facility, Iowa City
Explore the newest theories and research on slowing the aging of vision, hearing and mobility.
Tuesday, April 8
Session 1: Age Related Vision Loss
Understanding Common Eye Conditions and Looking into the Future - John Fingert, MD, PhD
Medical, Surgical and Rehabilitation Treatments - Mark E Wilkinson, OD, FAAO
Tuesday, April 15
Session 2: Age Related Hearing Loss
Causes and Rehabilition of Hearing Loss: Past, Present & Future - Marlan Hansen, MD
Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids, and Communication Strategies - Shea L Becker, AuD, CCC-A
Tuesday, April 22
Session 3: Maintaining and Restoring Mobility
Aging and Loss of Mobility - Joseph A Buckwalter, MS, MD
Restoring Mobility in 2008 - John J Callaghan, MD
Tuesday, April 29
Session 4: Medical Student Experience
Experience first hand what our medical students encounter during this evening of interactive exploration. Participate in hands-on medical education experiences in one of our patient simulation centers, the heart and lungs station or learn how to research your health questions on the internet.
To register go to www.medicine.uiowa.edu/minimedicalschool or call (319)335-8886 or 877-MEDIOWA
The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine's Mini Medical School is designed for anyone who is interested in the scientific basis of health and disease. Participants do not need a science background.
Behind the Scenes at the UI Museum of Art: Special Collections
Dates: April 3 - April 17, 2008 Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30pm
Location: University of Iowa Museum Art
Cost: $25 per person
Session 1: Jeff Martin, UIMA Collections Manager, will talk about installing exhibitions, managing loans of works to and from other institutions, conservation issues and digital imaging (Making the collections “web-ready” for public use). He will include a tour of UIMA Storage facilities.
Session 2: Get an overview of ceramic works in the UIMA Ceramics Collection, from
ancient civilizations to contemporary masters. Visit the hands-on study room for the collection, where guests will be able to examine a variety of works up close by handling them. This tour is given by a Docent and the UIMA Director of Education Dale Fisher in the ceramic study area.
Session 3: A docent will lead a tour of the 20th Century European and American Painting Collection Highlights, 1950-Today, and the many masterworks in the collection. Hear how the post-war society influenced artists and changed the rules of the art world.
Stem Cells: Hope for the Future
The UI Alumni Association and the UI Center on Aging present an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute event
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Program: 7 p.m.
Location: CASI (Room TBD)
1035 West Kimberly Road
Davenport, IA
*Event Fee:
UI Alumni Association members — fee waived
Non-members — $5 (collected at event)
*The event fee helps defray facility and reception costs.
In the 2006 election season, Iowans ranked the topic of stem cells as their second most important issue, after minimum wage. Why is there so much hope in stem cells? Because, say medical experts, they have the potential to treat otherwise incurable diseases. In this presentation, Dr. Nicholas Zavazava will reference specific medical conditions in a discussion of stem cell research, its problems and difficulties, and advances at the University of Iowa.
Presented by Dr. Nicholas Zavazava
Nicholas Zavazava, a professor of medicine in the UI Department of Internal Medicine’s Allergy/Immunology division, studies the immunological properties of embryonic stem cells. Currently director of transplantation research at the UI and chair of the university’s stem cell advisory committee, he has received many honors for his work, including the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation.
Please RSVP to attend “Stem Cells: Hope for the Future” by March 28. Visit www.iowalum.com/lifelonglearning, or call 800/469-2586.
Own Your Future: Setting Your Inner Compass
Date: Saturday March 29, 2008 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Pomerantz Center
Cost: $55 per person (includes lunch)
Own Your Future is a one-day workshop focusing on you. (Yes, it’s all about you!) Gain information and insight through guided activities and open discussions lead by facilitators.
This workshop is for near and current retirees who want to better define their life expectations and opportunities and gain a clear vision for their desired future. Using multidimensional tools, reflective exercises, and group dynamics, facilitators will guide participants through a personal strategic planning process. Learn to assess, envision and create an individually tailored plan to successfully transition to your desired, self-directed next life-stage.
Registration is limited so all participants receive individual attention and there is ample time for discussion and processing.
Facilitators: Mary Kathryn Wallace, a social gerontologist, is a wife, mother and grandmother living her life with innovation, integrity, community and joy. David Fitzgerald is Director of the Washington Center, Internship Advising and Government Programs at the UI Pomerantz Career Center.
Art: Collecting, Framing & Selling
Dates: March 26 - April 9, 2008* Wednesdays 9:00 - 11:00am
Cost: $30 per person
Learn all you want to know about art - from framing and preservation, to strategies for collecting and researching.
Session 1: Visit the home of Mary Lea Kruse, owner of Artists Concepts Lmtd., for tips about art collecting – especially art for your home.
Session 2: Join David Dennis at Chait Galleries to discuss proper framing and preservation of your art pieces. After class, explore Chait Galleries to see the techniques used by art professionals.
Session 3: Gather at the new UI Art Building to learn about art appraisals and de-excessing an art collection. Kathy Edwards, UIMA Curator of Prints and Drawing, will discuss the process of selling or donating pieces that you are ready to part with. UI Art Librarian Rijn Templeton will share useful tips on researching art using UI Art library resources. A tour the Art library and the new Art building will complete the program.
Gandhian Thought: Applications for the 21st Century
Dates: Feb 28 - Apr 10, 2008 Thursdays 6:30 - 8:00pm (no class on March 20)
Location: 2189 Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF)
Cost: $40 per person
This course will explore the historical, cultural and personal developmental factors that appear to have influenced Gandhi and his thinking. The main focus, however, is on his resulting moral philosophy and its relevance to addressing 21st century policy issues, in addition to offering new ideas for daily living.
INSTRUCTOR: Thomas Walz is professor emeritus and former director of the University of Iowa School of Social Work. He is a former Peace Corps director in Honduras with extensive travel experience in developing countries. He has made several trips to India in conjunction with his research on Gandhi. Walz currently serves as the executive director of the Extend the Dream Foundation and has received numerous national awards for his dedicated volunteer service. Walz is well published including articles on Gandhian thought.
Behind the Scenes at the UI Museum of Art: Off the Beaten Path
Dates: Feb 7 - Feb 21, 2008 Thursdays 2:00 - 3:30pm
Location: University of Iowa Museum Art
Cost: $25 per person
Session 1: Have an inside look at the impressive exhibition, Robert Wilson: The VOOM Portraits. Wilson, avant-garde stage director of the landmark Einstein on the Beach, was commissioned by VOOM high-definition television to create short films demonstrating the technology. He cast celebrities like Brad Pitt and Mikhail Baryshnikov - as well as animals - in films of beautiful cinematography, intriguing scores and narration, and remarkable scale. View the exhibition and hear about the ambitious undertaking of mounting such a large-scale display.
Session 2: Kathy Edwards, Curator of Prints and Drawing, discusses building a museum collection and mounting an exhibition. She will use works from the UIMA Print Collection to illustrate her talk and show special work in the Virginia Myers Print Study Center. She will also provide an introduction to the works of Mauricio Lasansky.
Session 3: A Docent will present a tour of the world-renowned UIMA African Collection showing how art that may look very different from Western Art shares the universal reason(s) for creation. Travel to the other side of the world without leaving Iowa City!
The Battle for the Pentagon Papers: Pre-Performance Discussion
Dates: Wednesday Jan 23 7:00 - 8:30pm & Wednesday Jan 30, 7:30pm
Location: 2166 Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF)
Cost: $45 per person*
*Cost Includes 1 Hancher ticket
Does national security ever trump the public’s right to know what its government is up to? Join OLLI at Iowa for a pre-performance discussion of Hancher Auditorium’s Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers. In preparation for this production, we will discuss how constitutional rights, national security and the role of journalism affects both our personal lives and national affairs. Top Secret explores this collision of interests. Enter the fray that found the New York Times and Washington Post clashing with the Nixon White House over the publication of the Pentagon’s study of United States involvement in Vietnam.
INSTRUCTORS: UI Professors of Law, Randall Bezanson and Tung Yin. Professor Bezanson's teaching centers on constitutional law, freedom of speech and press, and mass communication law. Professor Yin teaches courses in national security law, constitutional law, and federal courts.
OLLI at Iowa 50s Sock Hop!
Dance the night away...doing the Waltz, Cha-cha, Swing and Meringue.
With OLLI members and friends, the fun never ends.
The Pegasus Jazz Project will provide 50s music from far and wide.
Wear your 50s attire if you so desire.
And feel free to bring a friend or two...or even three - it's up to you!
When: Wednesday, November 28 6:30 - 9 PM
Where: Old Brick
26 E Market St
Iowa City, IACost: $7 admission fee ($5 for OLLI members)
Please Join Us...
For a night of dancing and socializing hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The University of Iowa. Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is open to the public with a small fee of $7 per person. Cash and checks will be accepted at the door. Present your OLLI membership card and the fee is only $5!
A basic beginning ballroom lesson will begin at 6:30 PM.
Shall We Dance?
Dates: Sept. 19 - Nov. 7, 2007
Wednesdays, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Location: Wickham Elementary
Cost: $55 per person
Lately, ballroom dancing has recaptured the attention and imagination of many Americans. Find out why this timeless activity has been acclaimed as transforming, an expressive language, a great mind-body exercise, and a delightful social outlet. Learn the different forms of ballroom dance, including the Fox Trot, Waltz, Swing, Rumba, Tango, Cha-Cha and Meringue. In addition, 30-minute sessions each week before dancing instruction will teach you about history of ballroom dance, costuming, judging, where to use your new skills, and more!
Sign up with a partner of any age. No partner? No problem! We will match you with another dance student! You will have a chance to meet your partner during a brief social gathering at the first class.
Following the class series, you can put your new talent to use at an OLLI dance in a local ballroom.*
INSTRUCTOR: Paul Davis is a retired educator, with 30 years experience as an elementary school principal and 7 years as a classroom teacher. Paul has studied dance in college and at Arthur Murray Dance Academy. He is currently teaching ballroom dance to undergraduates at the UI and to adults through the Coralville Recreation Department.
*There will be a small admission fee for this event.
Exposed Plots & Concealed Identities: Mastering Hitchcock
Dates: Sept. 20 - Oct. 25, 2007
Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: 1117 MERF
Cost: $55 per person
Master the language of film by studying the Master of Suspense, himself: Sir Alfred Hitchcock! Before the blitz of movie special effects, one director made a career of
skillfully pushing viewer’s buttons. It has been said that Hitchcock knew more about Freud and psychoanalysis than Freud himself.
Film buffs and the just plain curious are welcome in this class. Topics range from camera framing techniques, to plot tricks and twists (the famous McGuffin!), to the
classic femme fatale. Our schedule will alternate between screenings and discussions. Supplementary reading materials will be provided to help generate discussion and facilitate deep digging into the subject matter. We will explore 3 of Hitchcock’s best, most complex and intricate (as well as solidly entertaining) works: Vertigo, Rear Window, and North By Northwest.
INSTRUCTOR: Bethany Wright is a poet, performance artist, and independent curator. She is author of 3 chapbooks, including Indeed, Insist (a mystery). She co-founded FO(A)RM magazine in ‘02, and with an MFA from Bard College,
co-directed/curated the Gilded Pony Performance Festival in NY. Bethany has 10 years experience teaching, tutoring, and counseling.
Behind the Scenes at the UI Museum of Art: A Background
Dates: Oct. 4 - Oct. 18, 2007
Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Location: UIMA
Cost: $30 per person
A Background is the first of a three-part program for both curious novices and art enthusiasts, which includes a series of three museum visits per session.
UIMA Director of Education, Dale Fisher, leads the first class that introduces various strategies for viewing art. Through games and purposeful play, these strategies will strengthen the students’ ability to cope with challenging art and enhance meaning and understanding of the artist’s work.
In week two museum Director Howard Collinson, offers an insiders view of the UIMA - the organizational challenges and artistic considerations of keeping a museum vital and vibrant. Seize the opportunity to ask questions of the man behind the museum. This visit also incorporates an in-depth discussion and viewing of Jackson Pollock’s Mural and John Freyer’s Big Boy.
During the last week, students join a UIMA docent for a tour of the 20th Century European and American Painting Collection. Students can use their new knowledge to explore and discover how the art of this period was a sign of both the time and of things to come.
Taming Technology: An Intro to Digital Photography
Dates: Oct. 8 - Nov. 13, 2007
Choose either: Mondays 2:00-4:00 pm or Tuesdays 6:00-8:00 pm
Location: River Room III, Iowa Memorial Union (map - pdf)
Cost: $55* per person
Class size limit: 20 people
Digital cameras are revolutionizing photography. This course is designed for digital camera owners who are uncertain how to use all those manual functions and want to learn how to make this new technology work for them. Students will learn to look at their personal photography with fresh eyes by incorporating creative projects, lectures on technique, and constructive critiques of student work into the technical lessons. During each session, students will learn to use a new manual function on their cameras. Students will be asked to use that function during the week and to bring their favorite photos to class!
INSTRUCTOR: Sarah O’Brien is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an MFA in Poetry. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA Honors in Comparative Literature. Currently, Sarah works as a photographer for the Daily Iowan. She plans on spending the next year applying for graduate programs in photojournalism and finishing up her poetry manuscript. A book of her translations of work by Ryoko Sekiguchi is slated for publication in Fall 2007.
*Students should be prepared to spend a small amount of money on photo
processing fees.
A Radical View of the Science of Aging
Presented by:
Professor Kevin Kregel
In partnership with the
Des Moines, IA
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OLLI at Iowa Kick-off Event!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Free light lunch provided:
11:00-12:00 pm, MERF Atrium
Keynote Speaker: Marc Freedman, Founder/CEO, Civic Ventures
12:00-1:30 pm, Sahai Auditorium, MERF
Please join us to kick-off the fall course lineup of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Iowa and
• ENJOY Marc Freedman’s energizing talk on civic engagement and lifelong learning
• MEET CLASS INSTRUCTORS
• GET A DISCOUNT on an upcoming OLLI class
• Learn how to earn a FREE lifetime membership
• PREVIEW our OLLI 2008 spring curriculum
Marc Freedman, CEO/Founder of Civic Ventures, and co-founder of the Purpose Prize and Experience Corps, will highlight the transforming value of lifelong learning as a source of meaningful engagement, discovery and civic opportunities. Civic Ventures is a nonprofit
incubator for ideas and programs that are reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining the second half of life as a source of social and individual renewal. Freedman’s latest book, Encore, was published in 2007.
A special thanks to the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Carver College of Medicine and the Center on Aging for their support of this event.
Wines of Iowa - A 5 Week Series of Wine Tasting, Tours and Classes
Cost: $350 for full tour. The fee includes lunch, transportation, wine tasting, tours and classes. Or, $80 per trip.
The class will meet in Iowa City before departing to the days' destination. Transportation is provided by Windstar Lines and includes lavatories and air conditioning.
Note: Tours of the wineries and vineyards will require standing or walking for longer periods of time, sometimes over uneven terrain.
Introduction to Wine Tasting
Our adventure begins with instruction on wine tasting, by Julia Bailey from Prairie Table in Iowa City. Next, our bus travels to Wallace Winery in West Branch for a tour of the winery and a tasting of their award-winning Meritage wine. An appetizer lunch at Wallace Winery compliments your wine experience.
Iowa Chateau
Journey to scenic Park Farm Winery in Bankston, to tour the vineyards and the Chateau styled winery. Sample the Park Farm wine and enjoy a picnic lunch. Along the way, learn about the history of Iowa wineries.
Winery and Bistro
Travel through Grant Wood country to Daly Creek Winery and Bistro in Anamosa, where you will enjoy a tour and tasting, followed by a chef-prepared lunch in the Bistro wine garden. Our next stop is Cedar Rapids to visit the Cedar Ridge Winery and Distillery for a tasting and tour of Iowa’s first legal still to operate since prohibition.
Grapes In Iowa?
Jasper County will surprise you with two unique wineries in Newton. A four-course lunch, tour, and tasting awaits us at Sugar Grove Vineyards and Gathering Place, where you can watch elk grazing next to the 12-acre vineyards. A stop at nearby Jasper Winery promises a tour, tasting, and class about Iowa Grape Growing with owner, Jean Groben.
From the Vine to the Bottle
Paul Tabor is redefining Iowa family farming. His Tabor Home Vineyards and Winery in Baldwin is family owned and operated, on the original 1860’s farmstead. Mr. Tabor will teach about the winemaking process while touring the charming winery and 14-year-old vineyards. Hands-on demonstrations take you behind the scenes as the wine making process goes from the vine to the bottle. Taste the international award-winning wines in stages of production, and relax over a catered lunch.
View photos from this class series!
The Art of the Letter Class Series
Instructor: Mia Nussbaum, International Writing Program
Course Fee: $70.00 (fee includes course materials)
Everyone age 50 and over is welcome in this letter writing class -- from novices to published writers.
Look at the lost art of the letter in this course and consider some of its particular forms: as correspondence, as love letter, or letter of farewell, as letters of instruction or persuasion. The class will also read and discuss letters to the editor, telegrams and e-mails and the work of many uncelebrated letter writers, as well as work by Paul of Tarsus, Niccolo Machiavelli, Emily Dickinson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Flannery O'Connor, Vincent Van Gogh, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ursula Nordstrom, Malcolm X, and others. Students will practice their new acquired skills by writing, revising and possibly sending letters.
Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Controversy Over Postmenopausal Estrogen
Presented by:
Robert Wallace, MD, MSc
In partnership with the
Des Moines, IA
For more information about Lifelong Learning opportunities through the UI Alumni Association, email alumni-learning@uiowa.edu, or call 800-IOWALUM (469-2586).
Medical Miracles: The Science of Saving Lives
Mini Medical School Program Series
Iowa City, IA
For more information, please visit the Mini Medical School Website.
March 14 - Alzheimer's Disease: Predicting Onset and Progression
Mini Medical School
Presented by:
Kevin Duff, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Clinical Neuropsychologist
Department of Psychiatry
UI Carver College of Medicine
Location:
Waterloo, IA
Alzheimer’s affects almost 4 million people in the U.S. It usually occurs after the age of 65, but can begin in the 40’s and 50’s. Alzheimer's is a disease that causes the deterioration of the brain and eventually causes permanent confusion and memory loss. Please join us as we explore some of the newest theories in Alzheimer’s research and learn how discoveries make their way from the laboratory bench to the bedside.
This University of Iowa program is offered in partnership with Allen Hospital, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Mini Medical School is designed for all Iowans who are curious about current issues in medicine and science. No science or medical background is needed to participate. So whether you are a student, educator, someone dealing with these issues or caring for someone who is, we hope you will bring your questions and your curiosity to this informative program.
Richard Stoltzman, Salute to Benny Goodman: Behind the Scenes
Exclusive open rehearsal and discussion, and Hancher Performance
Location: Hancher Auditorium, The University of Iowa
Course Fee: $40.00 - (Cost included tickets to the performance at Hancher and the Friday open rehearsal and discussion)
Over the course of more than 50 albums and in performances around the globe, Richard Stoltzman has proven that he has few peers on the clarinet. At least, few living peers. Stoltzman salutes the “King of Swing,” Benny Goodman, in a performance that will make it clear, as the San Francisco Chronicle has argued, that he “is a national treasure and should be so declared.”
The University of Iowa’s own Johnson County Landmark, a jazz band to be reckoned with, will join Stoltzman on stage. It will be a night of serious swinging as one clarinet master honors another while treating the audience to some of the most popular music ever made.
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman's virtuosity, musicianship and sheer personal magnetism have made him one of today's most sought-after concert artists. As soloist with more than a hundred orchestras, as a captivating recitalist and chamber music performer, as an innovative jazz artist and appearances on nearly fifty recordings, Stoltzman has defied categorization, dazzling critics and audiences alike throughout many musical genres.
The open rehearsal is an exclusive opportunity for you to observe clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and the UI School of Music’s own Johnson County Landmark rehearse the program, Salute to Benny Goodman before the public performance on Saturday. A brief question and answer period will follow the rehearsal.
Formal Poetry Class Series
Location: 220 North Hall, The University of Iowa
Instructor: Mia Nussbaum, International Writing Program
Course Fee: $100.00 (fee includes course materials)
Everyone age 50 and over is welcome in this poetry class -- from novices and those who haven't read poetry since high school to published poets.
In this eight-week course we’ll enjoy poetry old and new through an examination of form. Each week we’ll write a formal poem and we’ll read examples of that form: poems that keep the form, poems that are haunted by it, and poems that break it. We’ll ask why forms that once seemed strong and clean can become cloying. We’ll ask what the beautiful is, and how we might gather some of its shards. We’ll look at the meeting of form and function in the seams of a work – how it is pieced. We’ll read and write sonnets, elegies, haiku, prose poems, psalms and nocturnes, villanelle, odes and ballads. We’ll also identify and assume forms (of liner notes, recipes, jokes, quartets, bumper stickers, e-mail, etc.). During each class we will workshop a few poems. We will read variously, seeking the sensations that Emily Dickinson famously described in a letter to Thomas Higginson, "If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." Here are a few of the authors we’ll read: John Donne, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Robert Hayden, Donald Justice, Anne Carson, Kenneth Rexroth, Russell Edson, Jack Gilbert, Marilyn Hacker, Noelle Kocot, Ted Berrigan, Srikanth Reddy, April Bernard and Chelsey Minnis.
The Road to a Cure : How Scientific Discoveries Turn into New Treatments for the Care and Cure of Cancer
Mini Medical School
Presented by:
George Weiner, M.D.,
Director, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
and C.E. Block Chair of Cancer Research and Internal Medicine
UI Carver College of Medicine
Location:
Des Moines, Iowa
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Half of all men and one-third of all women in the US will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Today, more people than ever are surviving their fight with cancer with the help of innovative research and cutting-edge technology. Please join us as we explore some of the newest theories in cancer research and learn how discoveries make their way from the laboratory bench to the bedside.
Mini Medical School is designed for all Iowans who are curious about current issues in medicine and science. No science or medical background is needed to participate. So whether you are a student, educator, someone dealing with these issues or caring for someone who is, we hope you will bring your questions and your curiosity to this informative program.
A $5 fee for course materials will be collected at the event.
A “Radical” View of the Science of Aging (pdf)
Presented by:
Kevin Kregel, PhD
In partnership with the
Davenport, IA
For more information about Lifelong Learning opportunities through the UI Alumni Association, email alumni-learning@uiowa.edu, or call 800-IOWALUM (469-2586).
A $5 fee will be collected at the event for non-members of the Alumni Association. The event fee helps defray facility and reception costs.
Aging: The Universal Experience
Medical school isn’t just for med students anymore. As part of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine’s on-going outreach and education efforts, we’re bringing our popular Mini Medical School program to Dubuque in November. Please join us – no late nights and no studying.
Presented by:
Al Klingelhutz, Ph.D,
Natalie Denburg, Ph.D,
In partnership with the UI College of Medicine
Mini Medical School Program
The population of older adults in Iowa is growing. In fact, Iowa ranks second in the nation in percentage of elderly adults over the age of 85 (2.2%) and fourth in percentage of residents age 65 and older (14.9%). As the population of the state and nation continues to grow older, it is becoming increasingly important for people of all ages to understand the special needs of older individuals. During this program, we will touch on some of the biological and psychological issues involved in aging.
Mini Medical School is designed for all Iowans who are curious about current issues in medicine and science. No science or medical background is needed to participate. So whether you are a student, educator, someone dealing with these issues or caring for someone who is, we hope you will bring your questions and your curiosity to this informative program.
This Mini Medical School program is sponsored in part by the University of Iowa Center on Aging.
A $5 fee for course materials will be collected at the event.
A Celebration of Music, Medicine, and Community
Presented by:
The Piatigorsky Foundation
Great artists...new audiences...where music is going…
Performers:
Evan Drachman, cello
Mary Au, piano
Silver Pines (pdf)
View the Program (pdf)
For information on these events, please contact Miriam Mosher at 319.362.6868