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...
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...
“Incunabula:” Some interesting notes on gifts to the University, with a solution to the mystery of the missing bones of Black Hawk. -- “Old Capitol in Winter Dress:” A water color by Charles Sibley, '49MFA -- “What's in a Well?” The...
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...
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...
The Name of the Game – This Building Campus -- Faces from the Crowd – The President’s Report -- Art Criticism in one Lesson – Toward the Engineering Art – Football Coach -- Practicing What he Preaches – Basketball A-Go-Go -- Her Honor...
Tuition: The bane of students becomes a pay increase for the faculty. Though no one's particularly happy with the 12 percent increase, tuition at the UI remains the lowest in the Big Ten. -- No more ivory towers: After conducting statewide...
Acceptance of the New Law Building/Dean Charles Noble Gregory -- Alumni and the University/Supt. J. J. McConnell -- Alumni Card Files/ E. Clyde Bobbins -- Alumni of The State University of Iowa, Colored/P. S. Pierce -- Alumni in Politics/Moon,...
Correspondence details the 1865 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
Diaries recounting the Civil War experiences of Jacob Harrison Allspaugh of the 31st Ohio Infantry regiment, primarily describing the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Allspaugh was a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, in his later years.
Families; Children; Wives; Marriage; Love; Homesickness; Kissing; Soldiers; Military officers; Military camps; Military headquarters; Military cookery; Surrenders; Wages; Correspondence; War casualties; Sick persons; Prayer; Campaigns & battles;...
James B. Weaver was trained as a lawyer, entered the Civil War as a private and left as a brigadier general, was an attorney general, tax assessor, and newspaper editor in Iowa, was elected to Congress, and was twice a presidential candidate, for...