Wortman was born in 1943 in Sioux City, Iowa. She received her BFA in 1970 and MFAs in both Drawing (1976) and Intermedia (1998), all from the University of Iowa.
ON CAMPUS: Find out what's been happening at the UI—from a unique research station to be built on the Mississippi River to the first Korean Culture Festival to a breakthrough in human genetics. -- IN CLASS: Rediscover the power of your...
Maybe It Happened Like This -- Iowa Rose Bowl Highlights -- Bridges are his Business -- The State of the University -- Rose Bowl Album -- The College Teacher: 1959 -- Sentimental Journey -- Evening of Honors -- Editor Retires -- Navy Scientist --...
Educating the Top Tenth -- Four Student Reflections On the Honors Program -- Christmas At Handicapped School -- Wider Worlds For Women" -- . . in a consistent pattern of excellence." -- Profile of a Rhodes Scholar -- Versatile Virtuoso -- What...
"Greeting": Clarke -- The Athletic Horizon -- Good Start for Association -- Football Journalism in 1875 -- Alumni Laboratory Useful -- Thirty-one Marriages -- Homecoming Edition: Nov. 1 -- Come Home Nov. 15 -- The Iowa Spirit of 1899 -- Chicago...
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...
A TRIUMPHANT LIFE: Helene Scriabine never imagined she would see her Russian homeland again, but thanks to Glasnost the UI professor emeritus is returning to see work begin on a film inspired by her life. -- ENVIRONMENT BECOMES A HOT ISSUE: The...
Homecoming Is Early -- Can the Football Team Maintain the 1913 Pace -- Frank O. Lowden a Success -- Irving Institute Has a Semi-Centennial -- Literary Reunion in Des Moines -- Many Marriages During Summer -- Cup for Class News -- The Third Annual...
FLYING THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE: A graduate of the Writers' Workshop takes a candid look at the new captain Frank Conroy—who is determined to keep the program flying high. -- LET'S GET PHYSICAL: We invite you to discover the lighter side of the...
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,...
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...
Another Milepost -- Education for Survival -- Alumni Dad -- Hawkeye Hopes -- Of Pageantry, Pulchritude and Purdue -- This Was Homecoming -- 21 Objectives -- Select Nominees for Association Board -- Just for Laughs -- Another Look at Educational TV...
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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Bionic Ears: Researchers already know the mechanics, if not the mysteries, of the ear and hearing. The UI's cochlear implant program offers the deaf artificial sounds that make -- Of Dinosaurs and Killer Comets: What relegated dinosaurs to museums...
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...
Alumni in Politics -- Medicine at Iowa: 25 Years of It -- Summer Activity Among Alumni -- November 23, The Bell Calls Again -- Sixty Seconds of Athletic History -- As the Iowa Editors See Us -- The Alumni Forum -- Engineers to Stay? -- The Alumni...
The Day We Tore the Goalposts Down -- Only the Iowans Can Really Know -- Westward Ho! -- The Golden Age -- The University's Future as Collateral -- An Earl Visits Iowa: Attlee -- Education On Camera -- Rose Bowl Album -- The Great Shakespeare...
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 --...