University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a national research university whose 7.7 square kilometers large campus in Iowa City in the US state of Iowa is located. The university has about 30,000 students and is the largest college in Iowa. The university is one of 60 elected members in the prestigious Association of American Universities and is one of the best state universities known as Public Ivy .
history
The State University of Iowa was founded as Iowa's first higher education institution on February 25, 1847, just 59 days after Iowa became a state. Despite its original name, it is not to be confused with Iowa State University .
The first lectures were given in 1855. In September 1855 the university had 124 students, 41 of whom were women. It was the first state university in the USA that allowed men and women to have equal rights. At the same time, it was the first university in the world to recognize creative work in theater, writing, music and art on an equal footing with academic research.
She did important pioneering work in equality between women and African-Americans.
Sports
The University of Iowa is a member of the Big Ten Conference in college sports. Their sports teams are called Iowa Hawkeyes . The official school colors are black and gold.
music
After flooding caused by heavy rainfall in June and July 2008, the School of Music was moved to the city center and built in the area around the concert hall.
The new organ in the concert hall was completed in 2016 by the organ building company Klais (Bonn). The instrument, based on the example of the German-Romantic organ building tradition, has 57 registers , which are distributed over three manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Personalities
Professors
- William Emerson Bull - Hispanist
- António Damásio - neurologist
- Eugene Allen Gilmore - Lawyer, President of the University
- Robert Forsythe - economist
- Kurt Lewin - psychologist
- David Morrell - writer
- Marc Osiel - lawyer
- Ignacio Ponseti - medic
- Kristin Thelander - musician
- James Van Allen - physicist
- Grant Wood - artist
Graduates
Arts, culture and entertainment
- Clark Blaise - writer
- TC Boyle - writer
- Tom Brokaw - TV Presenter NBC (News)
- Elizabeth Catlett - artist
- Michael Cunningham - writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Rita Dove - poet
- John Irving - writer
- Denis Johnson - writer
- Tracy Kidder - writer
- Wendell Logan - jazz musician, university professor and composer
- Nicholas Meyer - film director (e.g. Star Trek)
- Terry O'Quinn - actor
- Charles Ray - Artist (Contemporary Art)
- Brandon Routh - actor
- Jean Seberg - actress
- Sandy Skoglund - photographer and installation artist
- Jane Smiley - writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
- WD Valgardson - Canadian writer, winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Gene Wilder - actor
- Tennessee Williams - writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Nicos Zographos - industrial designer
Politics and law
- Norm Coleman - Senator from Minnesota
- Parviz Dawudi - Iranian politician
- Jayaprakash Narayan - Indian politician, freedom fighter
- Juanita Kidd Stout - U.S. Federal Court Judge (first woman)
- John A. Hull - American military judge
- Coleen Rowley - former FBI agent & whistleblower
- Mary Louise Smith - former Republican Party leader
Sports
- Jonathan Babineaux - American football player
- Tim Dwight - American football player
- Ettore Ewen, known as the Big E wrestler
- Lou Holtz - football coach
- Nate Kaeding - football player
- Alex Karras - football player, actor
- Nile Kinnick - American football player
- George Kittle - American football player
- Paul Krause - American football player
- Paul Minick - American football player
- John Niland - American football player
- Oran Pape - football player, cop
- Ollie Sansen - football player
- Eric Steinbach - American football player
science
- Oswald Veblen - mathematician
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the organ building company, accessed on January 21, 2017.
Coordinates: 41 ° 39 ′ 20 ″ N , 91 ° 31 ′ 29 ″ W.