Justice for All: In her efforts to break down barriers between people, Adrien Wing will talk to anyone. She's invited former gang members to campus and forced her students to examine issues they'd rather avoid. -- Writers' Block: Fill in the blanks...
Elena Bossi's discussion of "Writing as Philosophy and Craft" focuses on pseudonymity in fiction, titling her talk "The Names of the Other." Chris Chryssopoulos recalls philosophies of Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but...
IN CLASS: Actions speak louder than words in the silent world of an American Sign Language class.-- ALUMNI MATTER: Thanks a million—or rather, 50,000 and growing.The UIAA shows its appreciation to members with events, services, and programs...
"The exhibition is divided into two parts: (1) 'Art Created in Iowa' and (2) 'Art Collected in Iowa.' For the purposes of this exhibition, contemporary creative activity in Iowa is represented by works of art in several media by the faculty of the...
Guesly Michel is a Haitian social worker and psychologist who traveled to Iowa City this summer under a special grant with the International Writers Program to learn ways to use writing in therapy groups for those recovering from trauma in Haiti....
Chris Buresh grew up in Cedar Rapids, IA and graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. and from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He did his pediatrics residency at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, followed by an...
Edouard Duval Carrie' presents a selection of his recent productions and also talks about the different aspects of his activities in the general relief efforts made after Haiti's devastating earthquake in 2010 as well as his role as curator of...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
DRIVE THE BUDGET: Getting what it takes to run the UI is getting harder. How can a university prove what it's worth to a state? -- DENTAL COLLEGE CENTENNIAL: 100 years of history have brought the UI dental school to national prominence and some...
Field Hockey: The UI team is a national powerhouse with only a meager following. Coach Davidson and her squad have rolled up impressive victories both on and off the field that deserve our attention. -- Computermania! It's sweeping the UI campus....
My Life as a Student: Temperamental roommates, 7:30 a.m. physics finals, and Airliner pizza—in the first excerpts from a yearlong journal project, six undergraduates share their experiences at the UI. – ChangeAbility: Technological devices...
The recording begins near the end of Palestinian author Riy?d Baydas' presentation on his literary aesthetic. Boey Kim Cheng describes the politics of language in his polyglot homeland, which influenced his gravitation towards English-language...