Linda Egenes has written about the Amish for Cobblestone, Plain, The Iowa Source, and The Plain Reader. She is an adjunct faculty member at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. Vermont artist Mary Azarian won the Caldecott Medal...
Educating the Top Tenth -- Four Student Reflections On the Honors Program -- Christmas At Handicapped School -- Wider Worlds For Women" -- . . in a consistent pattern of excellence." -- Profile of a Rhodes Scholar -- Versatile Virtuoso -- What...
Tuition: The bane of students becomes a pay increase for the faculty. Though no one's particularly happy with the 12 percent increase, tuition at the UI remains the lowest in the Big Ten. -- No more ivory towers: After conducting statewide...
A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Alumna, Artist, Author -- Computer Center -- New Research Center -- Confrontation -- Joseph Benti – Hustlers’ Helper -- Fledgling Photographers -- Pistol Packin’ Proffessor -- Placing U of I Graduates -- The Numbers Game -- Research and LSD...
Bionic Ears: Researchers already know the mechanics, if not the mysteries, of the ear and hearing. The UI's cochlear implant program offers the deaf artificial sounds that make -- Of Dinosaurs and Killer Comets: What relegated dinosaurs to museums...
THE RUN FOR THE ROSES: The Hawkeyes played "never say die" football in the 1991 Rose Bowl before falling to Washington, 46-34, and Iowa fans never faltered. -- RADIO DAYS: For over 70 years, the UI has been on the air, broadcasting news, music,...
The Name of the Game – This Building Campus -- Faces from the Crowd – The President’s Report -- Art Criticism in one Lesson – Toward the Engineering Art – Football Coach -- Practicing What he Preaches – Basketball A-Go-Go -- Her Honor...
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...
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...