A Biological Breakthrough: UI researchers have found that the disease causing fungus Candida is really a quick-change artist. Their discovery could help in the treatment of millions of people who suffer from this virulent pathogen that causes...
Wheelchair no Impediment to Success on Iowa Campus -- UI Now Accessible to Disabled Students -- An Interview with Charles W. Case -- From Child Actor, to Dental Doctor -- Homecoming: Reunions 1980 -- In its 8th Year: Alumni Band Marches On --...
Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis editor, Kathryn Rhett, and Jessica Handler, author of the forthcoming Writing Through Grief, talk about how writing the tough stuff well can be good for you, and for a community of like-minded readers. Everyone...
Jill Baker transferred to the Intermedia Program at the University of Iowa after completing a year of graduate study in Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This background, combined with a background in anthropology and gender...
Originally from Buffalo, Dan Coffey has been the Languages and Literatures Librarian at Iowa State University since 2000. His poetry has been published in several journals, and he has a book forthcoming in 2008 from Scarecrow Press: Literary...
Nancy Crovetti writes: 'The Midwest is in my blood: my parents, Des Moines natives, migrated to New England as newlyweds in 1935. I came back to Iowa in '94, settling in Lamoni; have been a cancer survivor thanks to University Hospitals in '99 and...
Lance Larsen's third collection of poems is forthcoming from University of Tampa Press this year. His essays have appeared in Agni, Quarterly West, Hunger Mountain, Bellingham Review, and elsewhere. The entire essay "A Feeling in Your Head" appears...
Hua Ou is a University of Iowa graduate student from southwest China. She will soon earn her Ph.D in Hearing Science and is currently at work on her dissertation. She writes, "I have a dream to help hearing-impaired people." This piece originally...
Tom Mueske is a graduate of The University of Northern Iowa. He is now attending the San Francisco Art Institute where he is working towards a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting.
Brij Maharaj is professor at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal. Dr. Maharaj is South Africa's premier scholar in the areas of the geography of social justice and geography of public policy. He has been invited by the Department of...
What can and should the United States do now to encourage peace in the Middle East, and especially an end to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict? What are the most important outstanding disagreements and causes of violent conflict there, and how can...
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; De Wilde, George James, 1804-1871;
Concerning Hunt's forthcoming book and its contents; mentioning Hunt's fears of being accepted as an author of poetry and of prose by the next generation; expressing sympathy in De Wilde's bereavement.
Board Members Announced -- Getting Them Together -- U of I's Largest Gift -- A New Look for Old Capitol -- Basketball Forecast -- Dad of the Year -- JFK: Heir of the Enlightenment -- Iowa Alumni at KU -- Assessing our Accounts -- ISA -- Birthday...