“There are great opportunities that have come from the disaster. You grow from these things.”
UI President Sally Mason on the University’s recovery from the flood of 2008 and some of the significant rebuilding projects on the horizon (Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 19).
“I was coming out of a reading for my book tour when I checked the message, and I knew before returning the phone call that something strange and extraordinary must have happened.”
Writer Yiyun Li, an alumna of both the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the UI Nonfiction Writing Program, on her thoughts before learning she'd won a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30).
LONGING FOR IOWA: ALUMNI HEED THE HOMECOMING CALL
Corn monuments, bed races, parades, and—oh, yeah—football have marked nearly a century of celebrations. More
A HEART WIDE OPEN
Iowa Voyagers traveler Lily Allen-Dueñas shares why her trip to a Romanian orphanage left her with a heart wide open. More
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