Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
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,...
Aimee Phan reads from her collection of short stories entitled We Shall Never Meet. Phan gives a brief historical background of her stories, detailing the project “Operation Baby Lift” during the Vietnam War. “Operation Baby Lift” was the...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's untimely death and the many tributes that followed, which included scholarships, awards, memorials and the renaming of the University of Iowa's stadium to Kinnick Stadium.
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 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...
Vietnamese-American writer Le Ti Diem Thuy readsfrom her novel The Gangster We Are All Looking For. A moving and lyrical story of a family of Vietnamese boat people washing ashore to America and their struggle to make a new life in a new culture.
Kyoko Yoshida tackles the topic of fantasy and reality through identifying "disorientalism" in four parts, taking his audience on a journey that beings with a story by Edgar Allen Poe and ends with Coleridge pursuing the real, rebuilt, Xanadu....
Parents are Requested Not To Accompany Child To the Chair -- Iowa Initiates New Medical Curriculum -- Kidney Transpalnts -- ROTC: Alive and Well at Iowa -- Your Mission, Mr. Morris -- When You See What You Want – Push a Button -- From Auditions...
Mrs. Mary Louise Smith -- Basketball: Lute Olson -- Thieves Market -- The Military at Iowa -- Jim Dougherty and Jazz -- Deceased -- Life Members -- Alumni Notes -- Pioneer 11: Jupiter Revisited -- Sinology -- Grappling -- Basketball --...
SCHOOL WORK: Most University of Iowa students work to make ends meet. Caught between their aspirations and the perspiration it takes to achieve them, they're learning skills that will transfer to the careers they pursue after graduation. -- WHEN...
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...
An event co-sponsored by the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Four poets from conflict zone countries read from their work. Chris Agee represented Ireland, Bosnian poet Adisa Basic, Rwandan poet Jean Marie Kayishema and...
Writers' Workshop poet Eduardo Corral reads a selection of recent work. IWP participant Yves Emmanuel Dogbé introduces the reading of his poetry. Hao Vo Thi, also an IWP participant, sings a song in Vietnamese and introduces the reading of her...
Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
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.