The University of Iowa
Motto
Established	1847
School type	Public University
President	David J. Skorton
Location	Iowa City, IA, USA
Enrollment -Undergraduate -Graduate -Professional Image:UI-seal. ... The term public school has different meanings: In Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and most other English-speaking nations, a public school is a school which is financed and run by the government and does not charge tuition fees. ... Old Capitol Building in February 2005 Iowa City is a city located in Johnson County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 62,220, making it the sixth largest city in Iowa. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack (D) Senators Chuck Grassley (R) Tom Harkin (D) Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ...	20,000 5,100 4,100
Faculty	1,705
Endowment
Campus	Iowa City: Rural, 1,900 acres (7.69 km²);
Sports Team	University of Iowa Hawkeyes. NCAA Division 1A: 10 men's varsity teams, 12 womens. Mascot: Herky the Hawk. UI Athletics
Website	http://www.uiowa.edu
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"Old Cap" or Old Capitol Building, Iowa's first state capitol building and a university landmark.

The University of Iowa is an university in Iowa City, Iowa. The university was founded in 1847 as the State University of Iowa, only 59 days after Iowa became a state. In spite of its original name, it is not to be confused with Iowa State University. Iowa City is a city located in Johnson County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 62,220. ... Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Sheep eating grass in rural Australia Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. ... Image:Old Cap small. ... Image:Old Cap small. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Old Capitol Building in February 2005 Iowa City is a city located in Johnson County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 62,220, making it the sixth largest city in Iowa. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack (D) Senators Chuck Grassley (R) Tom Harkin (D) Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ... Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant university and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ...

In 1855, Iowa became the first public university in the United States to admit men and women on an equal basis. The university offered its first doctoral degree in 1898. It established the first law school west of the Mississippi. The university was also the first to use television in education (1932) and pioneered the field of standardized testing. 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A doctorate is an academic degree of the highest level. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This page is about the river in the United States; there is also a Canadian Mississippi River (Ontario). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Standardized testing is any test that is used across a variety of schools or other situations. ...

Bachelors, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, the College of Dentistry, the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the College of Public Health, the College of Education, the College of Law, the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, the Graduate College, the College of Nursing, and the College of Pharmacy. It is also the home of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Another project hosted by the University of Iowa is a virtual reality driving simulator, which they use to test vehicle and roadway technology, and the driver reactions to this technology. The University is currently home to ISCABBS, an aging public bulletin board system that was the largest internet community in the world prior to the commercialization of the world wide web. X-rays can reveal if a person has cavities Dentistry is the practical application of knowledge of dental science (the science of placement, arrangement, function of teeth and their supporting bones and soft tissues) to human beings. ... ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... // What is science? There are various understandings of the word science. According to empiricism, scientific theories are objective, empirically testable, and predictive — they predict empirical results that can be checked and possibly contradicted. ... Aphorism Critical legal studies Jurisprudence Law (principle) Legal research Letter versus Spirit List of legal abbreviations Legal code Natural justice Natural law Philosophy of law Religious law External links Find more information on Law by searching one of Wikipedias sibling projects: Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School... Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body organ system|systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge. ... Nursing is a discipline focused on assisting individuals, families and communities in attaining, re-attaining and maintaining optimal health and functioning. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon (φάρμακον) is drug, and logos (λόγος) is science) is the study of how chemical substances interact with living systems. ... The Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is the preeminent college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. ... Virtual reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... Driving simulators are used for entertainment as well as in training. ... ISCABBS, aka simply ISCA, is a bulletin board system (BBS) based at the University of Iowa. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ...

Campus

The University of Iowa's main campus is located in Iowa City, with the campus bordered by Park Road to the north and Dubuque and Gilbert Streets roughly to the east. U.S. Highway 6 traverses the university campus. The Iowa River flows through the campus. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics - the public teaching hospital affiliated with the school - is located on the main campus. The Oakdale Campus, which is home to the university's research facilities and the driving simulator, is located north of Interstate 80 in adjacent Coralville. MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION POSTMILE US-395 CA 0. ... The Iowa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa in the United States. ... The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is a public teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Iowa, and located in Iowa City, Iowa. ... MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # US-101 CA 0 20px I-880 CA ? I-580 CA ? CA ? I-680 CA ? I-780 CA ? I-505 CA ? I-5 CA ? California/Nevada State Line CA ?/NV ? I-580 NV ? Nevada/Utah State Line NV ?/UT ? I-215 UT ? I-505 UT ? UT... Coralville is a city located in Johnson County, Iowa. ...

Sports

The school's sports teams are called the Iowa Hawkeyes. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa Hawkeyes football is the University of Iowas football program. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference is the United States oldest division one college athletic conference. ...

Iowa's football team plays its home games at historic Kinnick Stadium named after former Iowa football player Nile Kinnick who won the Heisman Trophy in 1939. Tragicially, Kinnick was killed in action during WWII. Iowa battles Iowa State University annually for the Cy-Hawk Trophy, a traveling award. It also has a Big Ten rivalry with Minnesota. The two schools' football teams meet yearly to battle for Floyd of Rosedale, a traveling trophy in the shape of a bronzed pig. In 2004, Iowa and Wisconsin unveiled the Heartland Trophy, a bronze bull, to be played for in their annual rivalry. The Hawkeye football team has won eleven Big Ten football titles. Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant university and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ... The Cy-Hawk Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Iowa-Iowa State football game. ... Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference is the United States oldest division one college athletic conference. ... University of Minnesota Twin Cities This article is about the oldest and largest campus of the University of Minnesota. ... The winner of the annual Iowa-Minnesota football game is entitled to keep a trophy known as Floyd of Rosedale until next years contest. ... Plaque on Bascom Hall, UW-Madison. ... The Heartland Trophy is a brass bull that is presented to the winner of the Iowa-Wisconsin football game. ...

The school is also famous for its wrestling program. The Hawkeye grapplers have won an amazing 27 NCAA national titles and over 30 Big Ten titles.

The trampoline was invented by University members George Nissen and Larry Griswold around 1935. Griswold, was the assistant gymnastics coach and Nissen was a tumbler on the gymnastics team. A trampoline is a gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors. ... 1935(MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Accomplished alumni

• Archie Alexander, first African-American graduate (in engineering); and, governor of the Virgin Islands
• B.J. Armstrong, former NBA point guard for the Chicago Bulls
• Tom Arnold (actor), actor (Roseanne, True Lies) and host of Fox Sports Net's talk show, Best Damn Sports Show Period
• Mildred Benson, writer under penname Carolyn Keene of Nancy Drew books
• Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman and managing editor of NBC Nightly News
• Marquis W. Childs, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator
• John Cochran, broadcast journalist and correspondent
• Norm Coleman, former Democratic mayor of St. Paul, now Junior Republican U.S. Senator of Minnesota.
• Ellen Dolan, soap opera actress in Guiding Light and As the World Turns
• Martha Angle Dorsett, the first woman admitted to the Bar of Minnesota (in 1878)
• Rita Dove, 1993 Poet Laureate of the United States
• Duck's Breath Mystery Theater (Dan Coffey, Bill Allard, Merle Kessler, Leon Martrell, and Jim Turner), touring comedy troup also featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered
• Tim Dwight, NFL kick returner for the New England Patriots.
• Simon Estes, bass baritone opera singer
• Robert Gallery, Offensive Tackle for the Oakland Raiders
• George Gallup, founder of the Gallup Poll
• Dennis Green, head coach of NFL's Arizona Cardinals
• Merton Hanks, former NFL defensive back (4-time Pro Bowl selection)
• Jay Hilgenberg, former NFL center for Chicago Bears (7-time Pro Bowl selection)
• Lou Holtz, only football coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games
• Mary Beth Hurt, actress in The World According to Garp and Interiors
• Toby Huss, actor, creator of Artie, the Strongest Man in the World from The Adventures of Pete and Pete which he created at No Shame Theatre at the university.
• Harvey Ingham, co-owner and editor of the Des Moines Register
• John Irving, writer, A Widow for One Year and The World According to Garp
• Al Jarreau, Grammy Award-winning vocalist
• Denis Johnson, author of Jesus' Son
• John Johnson (basketball), former NBA player on 1978-1979 Seattle SuperSonics championship team
• Nate Kaeding, placekicker for the San Diego Chargers
• Alex Karras, actor and football player
• Barry Kemp, producer of television programs Coach and Newhart (Hayden Fox, the title character of Coach, was named after Iowa football coach Hayden Fry)
• Nile Kinnick, Iowa's 1939 Heisman trophy winner with Iowa's Kinnick Stadium named for him in 1972.
• W.P. Kinsella, author of Field of Dreams
• Ashton Kutcher, actor
• E.F. Linquist, co-founder of the ACT examination
• Chuck Long, football player and coach
• J. W. Grant MacEwan, Western Canadian icon
• Richard W. Maibaum, author of over a dozen James Bond scripts
• Nicholas Meyer, director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Dean Montgomery, mathematician
• Greg Morris, actor played Barney Collier in original Mission Impossible TV Series
• Bharati Mukherjee, Bengali-American writer
• Don Nelson, former NBA player for the Boston Celtics and coach for the Dallas Mavericks
• Flannery O'Connor, author
• Chris Pirillo, founder, and maintainer of Lockergnome.
• Ed Podolak, former NFL star with the Kansas City Chiefs
• Eddie Robinson (football coach), winningest coach in football history at Grambling State University from 1942 until 1997
• Reggie Roby, former NFL punter (3-time Pro Bowl Selection) for the Miami Dolphins
• Bob Sanders, Professional Football Player for the Indianapollis Colts.
• Wilbur L. Schramm, founder of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Institute of Communications Research at Stanford University
• Jean Seberg, actress
• Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning American Novelist
• Wallace Stegner, author
• Bob Stoops, football player and coach. Now head coach of the University of Oklahoma
• Andre Tippett, former NFL linebacker for the New England Patriots
• James Van Allen, physicist, discoverer of two radiation belts, the Van Allen Belts
• Oswald Veblen, mathematician
• Gene Wilder, actor
• Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

Notable faculty and adminstrators

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• Nancy C. Andreasen, 2000 National Medal of Science Recipient, head: MHCRC
• Philip Greeley Clapp, director of school of music 1919-53
• Walter Jessup, president 1916-34
• Lester Longman, chairman of the art deparment 1936-58
• Edward C. Mabie, director of theatre arts 1925-56
• Carl Seashore, dean of the graduate college 1908-37
• James Van Allen, head of physics and astonomy department 1951-85
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., faculty for University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1965-66
• Grant Wood, famous American painter who painted American Gothic, instructor, and director of WPA art projects

Current faculty Philip Greeley Clapp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... James Alfred Van Allen (born September 7, 1914) is an American physicist associated with the University of Iowa. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... American Gothic (1930) 2004 Iowa state quarter Grant Wood ]], born in Anamosa, Iowa. ... American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood, from 1930. ...

• Thomas Rocklin, noted current educational psychologist
• Kimberly Ephgrave, skilled contemporary surgeon

External links

• Official University of Iowa website
• Official Iowa athletics site