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Setting the record straight on private giving
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Lynette Marshall, University of Iowa Foundation president and CEO, outlines efficient, effective, and essential strategies for connecting with UI supporters.
UI performs Gilbert & Sullivan in Coralville, Des Moines
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The University of Iowa Opera Theater production of H.M.S. Pinafore will dock at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts July 13-15. The following weekend, July 20-21, the production will be presented at the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.
Register now for 'Fitness for Life' runs
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The National Iowa Varsity Club is hosting a "Fitness for Life" run Saturday, June 30, at the Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City. The "Fitness for Life" initiative is designed to develop positive habits that will lead to a lifetime of healthy choices and active lifestyles for athletes of all ages.
Iowa football put Yanda on track
Thursday, June 14, 2012
All-Pro offensive lineman Marshal Yanda's goal of playing football for the University of Iowa didn't follow a straight 40-mile path from Anamosa to Iowa City. But once he reached Kinnick Stadium, a new path began, one that led to the NFL and Pro Bowl status.
Everyday aphasias
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Poet and neurologist Dawn McGuire will read from her new collection June 22 at Prairie Lights Books.
Poetic oddities
Thursday, June 14, 2012
A new UI Press anthology—part of the Contemporary North American Poetry Series—by Gerald Bruns explores typographical experiments, sounds, digital presentations, found texts, and other avant garde methods.
Making a dentistry music video
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Second-year students at the UI College of Dentistry launched a deliberately goofy plan for honoring a favorite teacher. The result is earning viral-video buzz.
Swofford reads from new memoir
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and former faculty member Anthony Swofford returns to Iowa City to read from his new memoir.
Iowa One Cards get new look, functionality
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff will soon be able to use their university identification cards as proximity cards to access buildings or rooms on campus.
Discovery of mammoth proportions
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
An Iowa farmer and his family discovered an assortment of mammoth bones in their backyard; they hope assistance from the University of Iowa will uncover many more.
Doing away with distance
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
With the aid of a wireless remote presence robot, patients at Mercy Medical Center emergency room in Clinton now have immediate access to specialists from the University of Iowa Stroke Center.
Mallon reads June 19
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Florencia Mallon will read from her first novel, "Beyond the Ties of Blood," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, in Prairie Lights Books and on the Writing University website of the University of Iowa.
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