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 --...
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: 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...
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...
Truce or Consequences: The people in Northern Ireland have decided they want peace, and a remarkable Iowa graduate is helping them achieve it. Mo Mowlam, who went face-to-face with killers from both sides of the conflict to broker the Good Friday...
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...
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...
DOING GOOD: Whatever the challenge, volunteers work to make a difference. In these stories, we focus on people who reach beyond themselves to spread a little cheer, help their neighbors, heal the sick, and befriend children they otherwise wouldn't...
IN CLASS: Actions speak louder than words in the silent world of an American Sign Language class.-- ALUMNI MATTER: Thanks a million—or rather, 50,000 and growing.The UIAA shows its appreciation to members with events, services, and programs...
Iowa's Own: With a smile on her face and her sleeves rolled up. President Mary Sue Coleman is directing the UI toward its goal of becoming one of the ten best public research universities in the nation. -- Striking Accord: Even a nursery rhyme can...
Writers' Workshop alumna Allison Amend reads from the fiction collection "Things That Pass for Love." Alison Lurie, author of "Foreign Affairs," called Amend "a gifted storyteller" whose "writing is both thoughtful and entertaining."
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Perry Ross, a graduate of the University of Iowa, is a school administrator in Iowa City. He grew up in Mt. Pleasant and writes about his experiences growing up in a small town. Perry writes primarily for his family but sometimes shares his stories...
David Watts practices medicine in San Francisco. A poet, musician, television host, and teacher, he is the author of Bedside Manners and Slow Walking at Jenner-by-the-Sea. He also produced Healing Words: Poetry and the Art of Medicine, which was...
C.J. Hribal readsfrom his new novel, The Company Car. It is a family epic that moves from past to present on its journey to the truth of how we grow out of, away from, and into our parents. Richard Russo says, "ten pages into The Company Car you...
Novelist Daniel Mason, the author of the bestselling "The Piano Tuner," is back with the paperback release of "A Far Country," which traces a 14-year-old girl's journey through a vast, unnamed South American country in search of her brother, who...
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....
Bi Feiyu does not believe fantasy and reality are two concepts that must always balance each other; instead, he prefers to work with the "realistic spirit," describing that idea as "love, love with wings." Ashur Etwebi reflects on the topic by...
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...