Family history including author's description of her father John Strang's participation in the Civil War in Company K of the 11th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Volunteers.
Fashionable Physician: A dynamo with a fancy for fine shoes and perfume, transplant surgeon Maureen Martin is a perfectionist, and she is determined to make the nation's organ transplant system work for as many patients as she can. -- Saving for...
Respected fiction writer Charles Baxter reads from his novel "The Soul Thief."
Baxter, a "writers' writer" who teaches at the University of Minnesota, was at the UI last spring as a guest of the Writers' Workshop. He is the author of four previous...
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...