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UI identifies 3 distinctive areas of excellence for campus collaboration
Thursday, September 5, 2024
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From struggling artist to Tony triumph
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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UI professor’s books examine journalism in digital age
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
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UI alumna Phillips wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
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CLAS doctoral candidate receives prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Chang proud to be part of Iowa’s writing legacy
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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2 UI faculty receive prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate among 2024 winners of Whiting Award
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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New journal publishes UI lecturer's article on using role-playing games to teach
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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'Martyr!' plays its subject for laughs but is also deadly serious
Friday, March 22, 2024
Latest Writing News
Febos wins prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Melissa Febos, associate professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program, was named winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Girlhood, a collection of essays about the values that shape girls and the women they become.
Highlights from Iowa’s 175th anniversary weekend
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
The University of Iowa officially celebrated its 175th anniversary on Feb. 25—27 with two key events, the installation of Barbara Wilson as the university’s 22nd president and the 2022 Presidential Lecture.
39th annual Presidential Lecture: Proud Legacy, Promising Future
Thursday, February 17, 2022
This year’s 39th annual Presidential Lecture features presentations from three of Iowa’s most distinguished areas: health care, writing, and space physics.
4 Iowa professors win prestigious NEH grants
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Four University of Iowa faculty members were awarded the nation’s most prestigious humanities scholarship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants. The NEH awarded $24.7 million to 208 humanities projects nationwide.
39th Presidential Lecture will highlight 3 areas of UI distinction
Thursday, January 20, 2022
This February, in conjunction with the University of Iowa’s 175th anniversary, the Presidential Lecture Series will feature presentations from three distinguished UI faculty members—Craig Kletzing, Christopher Merrill, and Patricia Winokur.
Publishers Weekly reviews Samantha Chang's new novel, The Family Chao
Monday, December 6, 2021
Publishers Weekly reviews the new novel by Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, calling the book "thoroughly entertaining" and a "triumphant return" for Chang.
Anthropology professor publishes book about health research participation in Mexico
Monday, December 6, 2021
An anthropology professor has published a book about the participation of men in research involving HPV occurrence in a city in Mexico.
The Daily Iowan named Online Pacemaker winner
Thursday, November 11, 2021
The Daily Iowan in October was named an Online Pacemaker winner by the Associated Collegiate Press for 2020—21. The Pacemaker is considered the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism.
Renteria explores growing up as Mexican American in West Liberty, Iowa
Monday, October 11, 2021
In his new memoir, Chuy Renteria, public engagement coordinator at Hancher Auditorium, explores dance and growing up as Mexican American in West Liberty, Iowa.
NWP Professor Melissa Febos's book lights up the media in 2021
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The University of Iowa—renowned worldwide for creative writing—has struck literary gold again, thanks to Melissa Febos, associate professor of English in the Nonfiction Writing Program.
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