Alice Cruse

A quaint yellow house in Boone, Iowa — a community of just over 12,000 — appears relatively unassuming from the outside. But on Nov. 14, 1896, one of the most influential women of the 1950s was born inside. Mary Geneva Doud would go on to become Mamie Eisenhower, the wife of the 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. 
Mamie was born the second of four daughters to John and Elivera Doud. Her early years were spent in Cedar Rapids, where her family moved when she was 9 months old. The Douds lef...

What do you see when you walk out your door? This isn’t a mindfulness exercise; scientists want to know.Johnson County residents will join folks in more than 600 cities and counties in the worldwide City Nature Challenge this April. It will be the community’s third time participating as one of only two Iowa counties — Polk and Johnson — in the challenge.The City Nature Challenge began in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and has since blossomed into a global event cove...

University of Iowa student Aubrey Stark remembers coming home from elementary school to see her usually lively pregnant mother, Mandy Stark, ill and bedridden.“She was in so much pain,” Stark said. “[Her condition] was not safe for her at all.”
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Coming into a summer session at CIMBA out of a very busy semester, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to delve into the culture and the language that I would be experiencing in Italy. Fortunately for me, when I sent in my list of preferred classes, I put down Italy Live. And I am so, so glad that I did. Even barely a week in, I feel that I’m among the luckiest on campus to be a part of this class- here are my top 5 reasons why:‍Italian is not as commonly taught and learned in the U....