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19 unusual facts about University of Iowa


Autoimmune inner ear disease

Autoimmune inner ear disease was first described by Dr. Brian McCabe of the University of Iowa in 1979.

Beckwith Boathouse

Sue Beckwith, M.D., Boathouse, or simply Beckwith Boathouse, is an athletic facility at the University of Iowa.

Charles O'Neal

O'Neal attended the University of Iowa, then moved to San Diego, where he joined an acting troupe that included his future wife Patricia Callaghan.

Edward Bartow

From 1920 until his retirement in 1940, he was professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa.

Gastrointestinal pathology

That first evening session was organized by Jack Yardley from Johns Hopkins University, and included Henry Appelman (University of Michigan), Harvey Goldman (Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Bill Hawk (The Cleveland Clinic), Tom Kent (University of Iowa), Si-Chun Ming (Temple University), Tom Norris (University of Washington), and Robert Riddell (University of Chicago).

Greg Morris

While in college, Morris was active in theater and hosted the late afternoon Jazz radio show, "Tea-Time," on the University of Iowa's station, WSUI.

ISCABBS

Many of the Parti users had migrated over from a student created BBS called BBS1 (circa 1985) which was accessed from its creator's personal account "astran" on the University of Iowa mainframe computer PrimeA.

NIPTE

NIPTE’s current membership includes 12 leading schools and colleges of pharmacy and chemical engineering from the following universities: Duquesne University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Connecticut, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Pappajohn Business Building

The Pappajohn Business Building houses the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.

Passion Play: a dramatic fragment

The play was first published nearly a century after its writing by the Windhover Press, University of Iowa in 1971.

Richard E. Kim

He was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he studied political science and history, 1955–59; at Johns Hopkins University (M.A. in writing, 1960); at the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop (M.F.A. 1962); and at Harvard University (M.A. in Far Eastern languages and literature, 1963).

Samanera Bodhesako

Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing.

Susan Lewis

Susan is offered a tenure track position at a hospital in Iowa City, Iowa (presumably University of Iowa).

Theodore J. Bauer

Despite his family having lost both its broom factory and farm during the Great Depression, Bauer was able to work his way through school to earn both his B.S. (1934) and M.D. (1933) degrees from the University of Iowa.

U.S. Route 161

US 6 split away from the two routes near the University of Iowa Pentacrest.

University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

George MacLean, president of the University of Iowa from 1899–1911 and whom a building on the Pentacrest is named for, reorganized the academic structure of the University, transforming the Collegiate Department into the College of Liberal Arts, one of the seven colleges established in 1900-01, along with the Graduate College and five professional colleges.

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.

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.


Ana Mendieta

Mendieta attended the University of Iowa where she earned a BA, an MA in Painting and an MFA in Intermedia under the instruction of acclaimed artist Hans Breder.

Arizona v. Gant

A group of legal scholars, including University of Iowa law professor James Tomkovicz, wrote an amicus curiae brief asking the court to overturn the 1981 case, New York v. Belton, that granted police the authority to search a person's vehicle even if that person is not in the vehicle.

Bill Heckroth

Bill is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he earned a B.S. in Financial Management and started out as a walk-on to the Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team.

Brad Hopkins

In basketball, Hopkins played power forward, and was in the same lineup as future Iowa shot-blocker and NBA first-round draft pick Acie Earl.

Carol Gorman

She dreamed of becoming an actress, and while studying at the University of Iowa, was cast in the lead of both West Side Story and Peter Pan.

Deane Montgomery

Born in the small town of Weaver, Minnesota, he received his B.S. from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN and his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1933; his dissertation advisor was Edward Chittenden.

Dilip Chitre

In 1975, he was awarded a visiting fellowship by the International Writing Programme of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa in the United States.

Dragoș Agache

Agache is a former member of the swimming team for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and a graduate of management information systems at the University of Iowa in University Heights, Iowa (2008).

Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre

The group was formed in 1975 by University of Iowa students Bill Allard, Dan Coffey, Merle Kessler, Leon Martell, and Jim Turner.

Fred Schwengel

He graduated from Northeast Missouri Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri in 1930 where he was an undergraduate member of Phi Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City from 1933 to 1935.

FRY Fest

The event is named after Hayden Fry, the man who is responsible for bringing the Tigerhawk to the University of Iowa and who many claim is the greatest Hawkeye of all-time.

Gary Dolphin

He is currently the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football and men's basketball teams for Learfield Sports and the Iowa Hawkeye Sports Network.

Gene Gutchë

In the 1950s he attended graduate school in music at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa, studying under Philip Greeley Clapp and settling in Minneapolis.

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Rodriguez-Iturbe was born in Venezuela and has taught at many universities including University of Zulia, MIT, Texas A&M, University of Iowa (in Iowa city) and taught for 20 years at the Simon Bolivar University.

Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball

The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represents the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, as a member of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Leonard Ratzlaff

He obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral dissertation on Anton Bruckner's Te Deum earned him the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation Prize.

Martin N. Johnson

He was taught at home and attended the country schools; in 1873 he graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City, and taught two years in the California Military Academy at Oakland, California.

Max Kadesky

Max R. Kadesky (February 8, 1901 in Winsted, Connecticut – August 14, 1970) was an All-American college football player for the University of Iowa.

Meena Kandasamy

She has also represented India at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

Milič Čapek

During the war he taught physics in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Iowa, the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Doan College, and at the University of Nebraska.

Minnesota Golden Gophers football under George Hauser

The Gophers hosted the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight school at the University of Iowa.

Nathan Scheelhaase

His father, Nate Creer, started at defensive back for the University of Iowa, and started for the 1985 team that lost to UCLA in the Rose Bowl to finish 10-2, and be ranked No. 10 at the end of the season AP Poll.

National Center for Voice and Speech

The NCVS was organized on the premise that a consortium of institutions (including the Wilber James Gould Voice Center at the DCPA, University of Iowa, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin–Madison) would be better able to conduct and disseminate research than a single organization.

Oleg Timofeyev

A recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including IREX and Fulbright fellowships, he has taught and lectured at Maimonides State Academy (Moscow), Duke University, the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Smithsonian.

Ossie Solem

In 1932, Solem signed a three year contract to succeed Burt Ingwersen as the 13th head football coach at the University of Iowa.

Postville, Iowa

The interaction of long-time Postville residents with newcomers was the subject of a book about the town, Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, by Stephen Bloom, a professor at University of Iowa.

Roy Vernon Scott

In 1973, Scott and Jimmy G. Shoalmire, historian and archivist at Mississippi State, co-authored The Public Career of Cully Cobb: A Study in Agricultural Leadership. based on papers from the Henry A. Wallace Collection at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Sheldon Pollock

Before taking his current position at Columbia University, Pollock was a professor at the University of Iowa and the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.

Thomas Elsaesser

Since 1976 Elsaesser regularly teaches as a visiting professor at American universities notably at the University of Iowa, University of California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Barbara), New York University and Yale University.

Vanguard 1

James Van Allen of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite based on his work with Rockoons, which became Explorer 1, the first American satellite.

Wally Ris

He attended the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and swam for the Iowa Hawkeyes swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1947 to 1949.