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The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa [7]) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and 7 professional degrees. [7]
The state's oldest post-secondary institution is Loras College, a private Catholic school in Dubuque that was founded in 1839, [2] [3] seven years before Iowa became a state. [ 4 ] The state's only two law schools, the University of Iowa College of Law and Drake University Law School , are both accredited by the American Bar Association . [ 5 ]
The following is a list of Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball head coaches at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Twenty-two individuals have served as head coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball program in its 118-season history. Ed Rule, Rollie Williams, and Bucky O'Connor each served more than one tenure as head coach.
The Pentacrest is the Old Capitol and a collection of four buildings on the campus of the University of Iowa that surround the Old Capitol — Jessup Hall, Macbride Hall, MacLean Hall, and Schaeffer Hall — on a four-block-sized parcel of land in Iowa City, Iowa.
The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, Iowa. The museum was founded in 1858 by instruction of the Iowa General Assembly as the Cabinet of Natural History. [1] It is housed within Macbride Hall, located in the Pentacrest area of the university campus. [2]
The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (also known as CCOM or Carver) is the medical school of the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. The first medical college associated with the University of Iowa was founded in 1850, in the small town of Keokuk, Iowa , but the current Iowa City program can trace its ...
Aeroflot became the first airline in the world with sustained jet aircraft service, when it introduced the Tupolev Tu-104 in 1956. Aeroflot's route network had extended to 295,400 kilometres (183,600 mi) by 1950, and it carried 1,603,700 passengers, 151,070 tonnes (333,050,000 lb) of freight and 30,580 tonnes (67,420,000 lb) of mail that year.
Iowa City's central business district developed adjacent to the Iowa Old Capitol Building and the main campus of the University of Iowa. This juxtaposition gives the area its energy with the overlap of university staff and students and the local community. [2]