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John Culshaw

A place for old and new

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
New University Librarian John Culshaw takes a gander at predicting what current library essentials might just go the way of card catalogs and rubber date stamps by the time current students reach milestone reunions.

Jazz faculty to jam at George's Nov. 5

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

Jazz faculty to jam at George's Oct. 1

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

Grammy nominee Vinikour to perform Sept. 22

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, 2012 Grammy nominee in the field of classical music, will present a free concert in Iowa City at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in Riverside Recital Hall on the University of Iowa campus.

UI to host deaf awareness week

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The UI American Sign Language Program in the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures will host Deaf Awareness Week Saturday, Sept. 21 through Friday, Sept. 27. Activities include an American Sign Language (ASL) story time, workshops on interacting with deaf persons and interpreters, and a sports night.

UI to co-sponsor conference on stuttering

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The University of Iowa Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center will co-sponsor FRIENDS Day, a conference for children and teens who stutter, their family members, and clinicians Saturday, Oct. 5 at Heartland Area Education Agency 11 in Johnston.
bright star burst like light

Common ground

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Scientists and people of faith, and those who are both, can learn a lot from one another about the incredible universe we all live in.
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Old Gold: Historic Art Building to see new life

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Despite suffering major flood damage in 2008, the original brick Art Building will be preserved. The building, which was planned a century ago and eventually built in 1936, included the studio of renowned artist and UI faculty member Grant Wood.
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Spots that hit the spot

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
With University of Iowa Homecoming around the corner, Iowa Now asked alumni and friends to name their favorite campus spots.

Poets to read from their work Sept. 27

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Kate Greenstreet, John Gallaher, and Richard Meier will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

UI cancer chief involved in national cancer progress report

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
George Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI, was a co-author of the American Association for Cancer Research’s third annual Cancer Progress Report, which illustrates how research, along with clinical insight, have improved prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment for cancer.
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Cy-Hawk trophy is back in Iowa City

Monday, September 16, 2013
The Cy-Hawk trophy is back in Iowa City and resting comfortably inside the Hayden Fry Football Complex.