DOING GOOD: Whatever the challenge, volunteers work to make a difference. In these stories, we focus on people who reach beyond themselves to spread a little cheer, help their neighbors, heal the sick, and befriend children they otherwise wouldn't...
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...
Iowa's Own: With a smile on her face and her sleeves rolled up. President Mary Sue Coleman is directing the UI toward its goal of becoming one of the ten best public research universities in the nation. -- Striking Accord: Even a nursery rhyme can...
Sounding the Alarm on Sleep From insomnia to sleep apnea to a slew of other diagnoses, Dr. Eric Dyken is spreading the word about sleep disorders medicine. -- Keeping the Lid On: Campuses nationwide experienced the unrest of the tumultuous sixties...
IN CLASS: Students discover everything they wanted to know—and more—in a class that analyzes the links between sex and culture. -- A Grand Experiment: Medical experiments move out of the laboratory and into the kitchens and everyday lives of...
IN CLASS Marketing students add real-life boardroom experience to their resumes. -- Mercury Rising: Unsettled by escalating global temperatures and worldwide pollution, UI student activists campaign for environmental responsibility right here at...
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...
Debating at the University -- Delta Sigma Rho, National Meeting of -- Dental Class, 1908 -- Dental Clinic, Alumni -- Des Moines Banquet, The -- E. C. Barrett -- Domestic Science at the University -- Eaton, Harry E -- Evans, Judge...
The New Dean of the College of Liberal Arts -- Howell, the New President -- The Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- A Day of Ideals -- Fall Registration -- Honor Roll -- Homecoming -- Scholarship and the University -- The New Iowa Song -- The...
Rambling 'Round Our Domain -- Fall Athletics at Iowa -- In Olden Days -- The Iowa-Oklahoma Game -- Twelfth Annual Homecoming -- Alumni Dinner At Des Moines -- The Rediscovery of Iowa -- A Summer In Retrospect -- A Quarter Century of Athletics --...
This broadcast features the book Living With Topsoil: Tending Spirits, Cherishing Land, a collection of essays about Iowa ecology. The book includes contributions by many of Iowa's leading writers, who consider both the environmental and spiritual...
Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, gave a lecture entitled "Fiscal Responsibility in Athletics" at the University of Iowa during the fall of 2004. Julie Englander of WSUI recorded the lecture and following...
Michael Lux, the president of the Progressive Strategies consulting firm and a frequent blogger, reads from his book "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be."
In "The Progressive Revolution," Lux examines history to...
The vision for the Iowa City area's participation in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a "City of Literature" is rolled out in a free, public event at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in the Englert Theatre, downtown Iowa City.
The program -- emceed...
Political poet, social critic and labor activist Mark Nowak reads from his latest book, "Coal Mountain Elementary."
"Coal Mountain Elementary" is a genre-defying remix of verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, W.Va., miners and rescue teams;...
Animal activist Gene Baur reads from "Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food," his bestseller now out in paperback. The reading is one of several events at which Baur will appear during a four-day visit to eastern Iowa...
Andy Stern discusses his new book, A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track. Stern is the president of the Service Employees International Union and speaks about the future of unionization in the United States. “Be prepared to throw...
Founder and president of the National Yiddish Book Center Aaron Lansky reads from his new book Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Filled with inspiring and humorous tales, it is a riveting story...
University of Iowa psychology faculty member Mark S. Blumberg reads from his new book, "Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution."
In "Freaks of Nature," Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on the oddities of nature,...