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UI art professor and students cross the state on hand-built bikes
Editor’s note: For six days at the beginning of June, The Daily Iowan photojournalist Jordan Barry participated in a bike tour with University of Iowa Art School professor Steve McGuire and his students as they biked from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Muscatine, Iowa. McGuire and his students rode bikes they put together in his Hand Built Bike classes 490 miles across the state, averaging 83 miles per day, from the Missouri River to the Mississippi River. This piece is written in a first-person perspective to provide a more intimate account of the story.
Beth Livingston, University of Iowa – When A Worker Is Harassed During Their Commute
Harassment of workers doesn’t just happen at work, but also on the way in. Beth Livingston, Ralph L. Sheets Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, explains more. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial...
Iowa wrestler Petersen praises HS coaches
University of Iowa wrestler Kale Petersen, a 2023 Greene County High School graduate, praised his high school coaches in a conversation aired July 1 as a part of the PM Sports Magazine KG98 Edition. Petersen is rehabbing after early February knee surgery to repair two knee ligaments torn while wrestling.
Iowa 7th grader wins gold at the Pan American Games in El Salvador
DENVER — An eastern Iowa girl is flexing her talents on the mat. Abbie Peterson is a seventh-grade wrestler from the small town of Denver in northeast Iowa. She travels an hour and a half daily, sometimes twice a day, to train with the best at Big Game Wrestling in North Liberty, near Iowa City.
What to Watch in the Your Prep Sports Area as Postseason Softball Begins
The fourth of July is almost here which means that the fireworks that come with the softball postseason in Iowa are right around the corner. Postseason play begins in Classes 1A and 2A on Monday with opening-round games in the largest three classes following on Wednesday. The goal for every...
Andrew Kelleher of New Albin is one of 10 Iowa natives awarded Gilman Scholarship to study abroad
Andrew Kelleher of New Albin is one of 10 students from the University of Iowa (UI) - all hailing from hometowns in Iowa - who have been granted a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which awards the recipient up to $5,000 to study abroad. Sponsored by the U.S. Department...
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