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unusual facts about The University of Iowa



University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the largest of the eleven colleges at The University of Iowa, founded in 1900.

University of Iowa College of Public Health

The University of Iowa College of Public Health is one of eleven colleges based in The University of Iowa.


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Abdul Hodge

Hodge attended the University of Iowa, where he majored in communication studies and was a member of the National Honor Society.

Bill Zadick

Bill and his younger brother, Mike Zadick, are part of the University of Iowa's tradition of brothers competing for the Hawkeyes.

Butterfly stroke

One year later, in 1935, Jack Sieg, a swimmer also from the University of Iowa, developed a kick technique involving swimming on his side and beating his legs in unison, similar to a fish tail, and then modified the technique afterward to swim it face down.

Dance marathon

The University of Iowa Dance Marathon was founded in 1994 and in 2013 raised $1,529,650.19 to support oncology patients being treated at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

Eric Steinbach

While attending the University of Iowa, Steinbach played for coach Kirk Ferentz's Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1999 to 2002.

Harold Bradley, Sr.

Harold Bradley Jr. followed in his father's footsteps, first at the University of Iowa and then in the NFL.

Hawks Nest

The Hawk's Nest, NCAA men's basketball student section for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes

Huston Diehl

Diehl was the recipient of many awards and honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1978-79 and the University of Iowa's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1989.

James Yannatos

Subsequent studies with Nadia Boulanger, Luigi Dallapiccola, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith, and Philip Bezanson in composition, William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein in conducting, and Hugo Kortschak and Ivan Galamian on violin took Yannatos to Yale University (B.M., M.M.), the University of Iowa (Ph.D.), Aspen, Tanglewood, and Paris.

Jesus T. Peralta

He has participated in many literature, art, archeology, social science and cultural workshops and conferences including the writer's workshop in Silliman University, the writer's workshop at the University of Iowa, USA.

Laura Mullen

She’s also been invited as a guest author to teach at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008), Columbia College – Chicago - (spring semester 2003), Brown University (2001), and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Program, (1998).

Lee Clark

Lee Anna Clark, professor in the department of psychology at the University of Iowa

Marilyn Arnold

Along with Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill and Kristen Tracy, Arnold edited the University of Iowa Press published anthology A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women.

Marquis Childs

Surprisingly, there are two three-act plays, Maud and Madame Minister, among the Childs materials collected by the University of Iowa.

Mike Zadick

Mike and his older brother, Bill Zadick, are part of the University of Iowa's tradition of brothers competing for the Hawkeyes.

Robert Hogg

Robert V. Hogg (born 1924), American statistician and professor at the University of Iowa

Terry Wahls

Dr. Wahls completed her medical doctorate from The University of Iowa in 1982 and accepted a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Barnes Hospital, Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.

University of Iowa School of Art and Art History

The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History is a school of the University of Iowa located in Iowa City, IA which awards undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art and Art history.

In 1924 the University of Iowa conferred the first graduate degree "Matser's in Graphic and Plastic Arts" to Eve Drewelowe.