Tag: University of Iowa

  • Nation & World

    Plotting her return

    Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A learning gap is filled with plants

    With classes in plant morphology fading in universities across the country, an Arnold Arboretum short course is seeking to plug the hole, bringing in top botany graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for an intensive, two-week course.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Principled expression

    A new exhibition of works at the Rudenstine Gallery explores the work of artist Elizabeth Catlett.

    3 minutes