THE DAY AFTER MAKES A DIFFERENCE: Nicholas Meyer's TV movie about nuclear war drew 100,000,000 viewers and a lot of controversy; four UI professors explain why the film was worth it -- FROM THE CHAPEL TO THE CLASSROOM: With the
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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...
Dean Wilcox Dies -- Scholarship Statistics -- Some Evidences of Growth -- Walter A. Jessup, The New President -- Macbride, President Emeritus -- Homecoming, Nov. 24-25 -- Classes Make Gifts -- Life Memberships -- Dean William Craig Wilcox -- Fifth...
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 --...
Marilyn Abildskov reads from her memoir entitled The Men in My Country. Abildskov gives a brief context of her memoir, claiming that it is about the time she spent teaching English in Japan and the three men she fell in love with while in the...
Poet Michele Glazer reads from her collection poems, Aggregate of Disturbances. "Aggregate of Disturbances springs from the inside of nuance and feeling. One senses at every turn how clear-eyed yet emotionally committed this writing is. At once...
Drawing on his experience writing Child of My Right Hand (2004) and Twelfth and Race (published this March), novelist Eric Goodman discusses the challenges of taking on hot button topics. Why would you do it? What are the pitfalls and pleasures?...
Regan Good reads from her collection of poems, The Atlantic House. "Good’s big—yet concise—book burns with a rare intensity, its balanced monostichs and couplets merging panoramic images with cries from the heart and unorthodox prayers . . ....
Dina Nayeri reads from A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Fascinated with America in 1980s Iran, Saba Hafezi becomes convinced that her...
The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.
The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.
The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.