Articles tagged with "in the news"

By Rob Daniel, Iowa City Press-Citizen

11/17/2010

CORALVILLE — People with disabilities are able to work in a paying job, run in a marathon and dance, said Scott Gill, president of the Iowa State Association of Independent Living to a group of middle school students.

“Do you think a person who is blind could climb Mount Everest?” he said before switching on a video about Erik Weihenmeyer, a blind man who reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2001.

By Josh O’Leary, Iowa City Press-Citizen

11/16/2010

Sixth-graders from Iowa City’s Longfellow and Hoover elementary schools and students from North Central Junior High in North Liberty will be among the 300 middle-schoolers thinking globally today during the University of Iowa College of Education’s International Day.

By Nina Earnest, The Daily Iowan
See the original article and a video feature.

11/16/2010

Islamophobia is not just a fear. It’s a prejudice.

Miriam Amer shared this definition with a crowd in the Main Library’s Shambaugh Auditorium on Monday night.

11/15/2010
From University News Services

International student enrollment at the University of Iowa is growing faster than national trends, especially among undergraduates, and the percentage of UI students studying abroad continues to climb. This is according to data released today by the UI International Student & Scholar Services and the UI Office for Study Abroad in conjunction with the Open Doors Report.

By Nina Earnest, The Daily Iowan

11/10/2010

Note: this article was not published on the Daily Iowan’s website and therefore the below article is a scanned image from the newspaper.

Photos by Karina Schroeder

11/9/2010

The T-shirts have only been in stock two weeks, but University Bookstore general manager Richard Shannon said they have been selling well.

By Ian Smith, The Daily Iowan

11/3/2010

Last year, the small Zambian village of Libuyu needed a bridge in order to access the only school in the area without having to walk several miles around a dangerous river.

But they didn’t have the resources. And when a group of students from the University of Washington backed out at the last minute, five engineering students from the University of Iowa stepped in.