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...
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...
IN CLASS: Engineering students help equip humans for flight. -- The Flight of a Red-Tailed Angel: As one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, Iowa alumnus Luther Smith played a crucial part in World War II— and also helped wage the battle for racial...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Amy Bloom reads from her popular novel "Away,"
A starred review in Publishers Weekly summarized the plot: "Life is no party for Lillian Leyb, the 22-year-old Jewish immigrant protagonist of Bloom's outstanding fifth novel: Her husband and parents...
An article, condensed from The American spectator, about Mustapha Kemal, first president of Turkey, on "the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic."
Gentian Çoçoli has published three collections of poetry in his native Albania, most recently Human Soil (2006). He is also the founder of the literary journal Aleph Review. Çoçoli participated in the University of Iowa's International Writing...