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Recent deaths

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.
Class photo of the class of 2016

UI enrollment reaches record high

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Total enrollment at the University of Iowa has reached a record high this fall, with 31,498 students attending the university, including 21,999 undergraduates, 4,470 of which are first-year students.
Inara Verzemnieks portrait

Verzemnieks wins Jaffe Writers' Award

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Inara Verzemnieks, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), is one of six 2012 winners of the prestigious Rona Jaffe Writers’ Awards. She follows in the footsteps of former recipients such as Eula Biss, Amy Leach, Lan Samantha Chang, and ZZ Packer.

EPA will need to work faster and smarter

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Variables including population growth, land use, and climate change will challenge the federal agency.
Four children dipping string in wax to make candles

Celebrate a day on the prairie

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum joins the Cedar County Historical Society for a Sept. 15 event marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.

Showalter will receive Capote Award Sept. 14

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Elaine Showalter will receive the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin at a Sept. 14 event in the Senate Chamber of the University of Iowa's Old Capitol.

MNH 'Night at the Museum' returns Sept. 14

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Children will get to don a miner's hat with headlamp to explore the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History when "Night at the Museum" returns Sept. 14. The evening includes tours of darkened galleries and an opportunity to interact with live insects and other arthropods.
Group of women, some in Islamic dress. Photo via WiderNet Project.

WiderNet Project's 500th library goes to historic Kenyan town

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The University of Iowa WiderNet Project installed the 500th eGranary Digital Library this summer in the remote island village of Lamu, off the coast of Kenya.

Six decades of homemaking

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The University of Iowa Press releases a collection of tips from Evelyn Birkby—"Iowa's best-known homemaker"—on Sept. 15, part of the Bur Oak Books series.

UI facilities affected by Sept. 7 event

Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Setup and safety for Friday’s campaign visit by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden will affect access to University of Iowa facilities as well as access to roads downtown Thursday-Friday, Sept. 6-7.
President Barack Obama in front of a Tiger Hawk banner

Obamas, Bidens to visit UI Friday

Tuesday, September 4, 2012
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden will visit the University of Iowa campus Friday, Sept. 7, for a campaign event on the university’s Pentacrest.
A man in a yellow t-shirt in the bottom left corner takes a photo of a group of people wearing Iowa Hawkeye and Cubs apparel in front of the Wrigley Field marquee.

Windy City scene

Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The University of Iowa football team kicked off its 2012 season Sept. 1 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Thousands of Hawkeye fans invaded the Windy City, seeing the sights and spreading Hawkeye cheer everywhere they went. Check out the scenes from Navy Pier, Wrigley Field, and the site of the game against the Northern Illinois Huskies.