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The Alumnus, V61n2, May 1976, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:
-- Meeting, program, banquet highlighted Alumnal Association
-- The ups and downs of getting around the campus
-- Opening night at the UNI-Dome
-- The Saga of South Bear Creek
-- News Notes
-- Alumni Profiles
-- UNI Statement of Records - Privacy Policy

Abstracts Of Papers, Iowa Academy Of Science [88th Meeting], April 10, 1976, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Presentation abstracts from the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 9-10, 1976 [Program, 88th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

General Sessions:
Observations on Science and Policy Making - Dr. Richard Scribner, AAAS --- 5
Experiences as a Congressional Science Fellow - Dr. Pamela Ebert, NRC --- 5
Nuclear Energy - Dr. Dixy Lee Ray --- 7
Symposia and Joint Sessions:
Current Status of Cancer Research --- 9
Cedar River Ecology --- 9
Waste Disposal in Iowa --- 10
Relationship Between The Applications of Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics --- 11
What Does Industry Want From the Physical Science Graduate? --- 11
Social Hour and Banquet --- 7
Workshops on Energy and The Environment --- 10
Academy Business …

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Spring 1976, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Alumnus, V61n1, February 1976, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

The Alumnus

Inside This Issue:

-- Heart Patients Walk-Run to Recovery
-- Industrial Technology Center
-- UNI-Dome Program Committee Selected
-- Lakeside Laboratory Featured
-- Weathering the Elements at ISTC
-- Football Team of '28 Honored
-- We Hear From Alumni

Cover - Front Matter - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

Citizen's Workshop On Energy And Environment

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The University of Northern Iowa Chemistry Department will be conducting a series of Citizens' Workshops on Energy & Environment in Iowa during the coming academic year.

Holography: Capturing The Third Dimension, Michael Timmons

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Holography, the three-dimensional recording of interference patterns on film has unlimited possibilities in the fields of science, art, technology, and media. Three types of holograms, the "flat" or plane, circular, and white light, are presently being produced successfully and inexpensively in the high school situation. The novelty of holography arouses curiosity while allowing the student to experience the application of interference phenomenon.

The Foreign Exchange

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The National Science Teachers Association is attempting to locate persons in the United States who are interested in corresponding with science teachers in other countries and/or hosting a foreign student or visiting educator.

Nsta To Assist Local Drive-In Conferences

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Individual NSTA members, chapters, and associated groups interested in sponsoring local or drive-in conferences are invited to write in for application forms.

Mnemonics, Mike Williams

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

You can help students remember and keep in order the levels of biological classification by using the following old Dial soap commercial.

A Snow Job, Elwood Garlock

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Have students measure the temperature of a snow drift at three different levels.

Eastern Iowa Science Fair

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair will be held March 26 and 27, 1977.

Cover - Front Matter - Table Of Contents

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

Iowa's P.A.S.T. (Programming Archeology For School Teachers)

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The National Endowment for Humanities has recently granted the Office of the Iowa State Archeologist funds for developing archeological learning materials for the youth of Iowa at the fifth grade level. Dr. D. C. Anderson, the State Archeologist has just released the following description of the project.

Amoebas That Can "Blow Your Mind", Eugene C. Bovee

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Until the mid-1950's it was assumed by biologists and physicians that the only amoeba that endangered human comfort is the one that infects the digestive tract, causing amoebic dysentery in the susceptible and unwary tourist exposed to its more virulent varieties. Although that one, known to biologists as Entamoeba histolytica, sometimes escapes to the other parts of the body to cause sores and disturbances, it rarely causes death of its host, being a generally "well-behaved" parasite.

In This Corner: Career Education, Steven K. Halstead

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Often science educators feel that career education belongs in the Industrial Arts or Vocational Agriculture or Home Economics classroom but not in the Science classroom. Since Sputnik, science educators have been selling their course offerings by talking about the vast technological society in which we live and how the job market needs scientifically literate workers. Too often, however, these same educators view career education only as the production of pre-professional scientists. They seem not to include nurses, laboratory technicians and other applied fields in science vocations.

Behavior Molding, Leon Eisenberg

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The planets will move as they always have whether we adopt a geocentric or heliocentric view of the heavens . . . but, the behavior of man is not independent of the theories of human behavior that men adopt.

Congratulations!

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

The Editorial Board of the Iowa Science Teachers Journal wishes to congratulate the six Iowa science educators recognized by the Iowa Academy of Science for their excellence in science teaching: Sandra Waltz (Norwalk); Elwood Garlock (Cedar Rapids); Stanley Whelchel (Waterloo); George Davis (Reinbeck); Gary Jensen (Roland); Glendon Peterson (Le Mars).

Officers, Iowa Academy Of Science; Officers, Editors, Regional Directors, Iowa Science Teachers Section; Editorial & Technical Review Boards

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

Keeping Up With The Sun, David R. Duncan, Bonnie H. Litwiller

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

While flying from Minneapolis to a convention on the west coast we observed that it was becoming dark outside even though we took off in daylight and were flying west toward the sun. We asked ourselves the question, "How fast should we be flying to 'keep up with the sun'?"

Third Northeast Iowa Science And Engineering Fair

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Upper Iowa College will be host to the Northeast Iowa Science and Engineering Fair on March 26th and 27th.

In Defense Of Ambiguity, Eugene C. Bovee

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

If I recall correctly, one of the first adjectives I learned as a freshman in college was ambiguous. I do not remember looking it up in any dictionary when I learned it after the first mid-term tests. It was then enough for me to learn that if a professor's test-questions were deemed "ambiguous," I could excuse my failure to answer test-questions accurately and blame the professor for having hidden from me what I should have learned and understood. In my years since, as a professor, I find that the freshmen and upper classmen and even graduate students are still sophomoric …

Lecture Versus Discussion In The Study Of Sophomore Library Skills, Sandri F. Gehrke

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to determine which method of instruction--the lecture or the small group discussion--would achieve the best learning results as far as knowledge of certain unfamiliar materials was concerned.

Specifically, the author of this research study tried to answer this questions When an instructor is teaching "selected" reference books to average-ability sophomores in an English 10 library skills unit at Fort Dodge Senior High School, Fort Dodge, Iowa, which method of instruction--the lecture or the small group discussion--will achieve the best learning results as measured by an author- constructed post-test?

In this research study the author …

Computer Assisted Determination Of The Ionization Constants Of An Unusual Dibasic Acid, George E. Knudson, Jennifer Bickel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The ionization constants for an unusual keto ester were determined by examination of the complex visible-UV absorption spectra of the monobasic salt. Interpretation of changes with pH of the spectra at four different wave lengths required an estimate of 12 molar absorbancies and two ionization constants. A computer program permitted progressive selection of best values. The ratio of K₁ to K₂ for this acid is exceptionally high and exceeds that for any other acid for which we have found data.

Stream & Tree, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A short poem with edits published in the Wascana Review, volume 10, number 1.

In A Country Cemetery In Iowa, For James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A poem written for James Hearst.

Nitrogen Metabolism In Acanthamoeba Castellanii: Amino Acid Consumption And Composition Patterns, Warren D. Dolphin

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Quantitative analyses of the amino acids in the culture media before and after population growth demonstrate that Acanthamoeba castellanii selectively utilizes amino acids from Adam's defined medium (DM₂) and Neff's optimal growth medium, but no amino acid is completely depleted during normal population growth. The cellular amino acid content varies for amoebae grown in the two media. The most common total cellular amino acids are alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, and leucine. The most common free amino acids in the intracellular pools are alanine and proline. In DM₂, NH₃ is produced at a rate …

Two Species Of Alethopteris From Iowa Coal Balls, Mary Ann Reihman, J. T. Schabilion

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Petrified specimens of Alethopteris sullivanti (Lesquereux) Schimper and Alethopteris lesquereuxi Wagner, species of Pennsylvania seed fern leaves, were found in coal balls from the Lovilia locality in south central Iowa. The morphology and anatomy of these leaves are described and are compared with findings of previous workers (Leisman, 1960; Baxter and Willhite, 1969). It is generally accepted that Alethopteris is a foliage type of the Pennsylvania pteridosperm, Medullosa (Scott, 1899; Steidtman, 1944). Evidence cited to support this includes the attachment of seeds to Alethopteris foliage (Halle, 1927), the common association of the genus with Myeloxylon, Dolerotheca, Pachytesta, and other organ …

Back Cover - Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.