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The Writing Center is hosted by the Department of Rhetoric and is located in room 110 of the English Philosophy Building. Services are free and available to all students, faculty, and staff. Not affiliated with the UI? We also help staff a community writing center at the Iowa City and Coralville Public Library. Walk-in appointments available for Johnson County residents during the fall and spring semesters.

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Est. 1934

One of the first Writing Centers in the U.S.
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The Center has a long-standing tradition of one-to-one instruction in rhetorical and communication skills.

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The number of hours of one-on-one writing instruction we provide each year.
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The University of Iowa Writing Center was started by Carrie Stanley in 1934, making it one of the first writing centers in the country. The center has a long-standing tradition of one-to-one instruction in rhetorical and communication skills.

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SEES Grad Defense: Jalissa Pirro - Masters Defense - "Quantifying Early-Season Miscanthus × giganteus Spatiotemporal Patterns Using High-Resolution UAS LIDAR"

Friday, July 17, 2026 9:00am
University of Iowa Main Library

LIB 3083

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.

Title: Quantifying Early-Season Miscanthus × giganteus Spatiotemporal Patterns Using High-Resolution UAS LIDAR

Abstract: Perennial bioenergy crops are increasingly important for sustainable biomass production, with Miscanthus x giganteus (M×g) standing out for its high yield potential. Unlike annual row crops, perennials regrow each year from belowground rhizomes and spread unevenly across a field...

SEES Grad Defense: Joshua Laird - PhD Defense - "Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada"

Friday, July 17, 2026 10:00am
Trowbridge Hall

7/17: 10:00AM - 1PM, 231 TH (Trowbridge Hall)

Title: Ordovician trilobite communities: End-Ordovician mass extinction beta diversity collapse, habitat occupancy dynamics, and insights from the Eleanor River Formation (Floian) fauna of Canada

Abstract: Trilobites (extinct marine arthropods) reached peak diversity during the Ordovician, when the group was divided into the Ibex and Whiterock evolutionary faunas. During the Early to early-Middle Ordovician, species of these faunas occupied habitats...

Final Thesis Defense- Hung Nguyen (Margulis)

Friday, July 17, 2026 1:30pm
Chemistry Building

"Structure and Dynamics of Irradiation Induced Species in MgCl2-KCl Molten Salts"

SEES Grad Defense: Brittany Stolfus - PhD Defense - "Stable Isotope and K-Bentonite Geochemistry of the Ireviken Biogeochemical Event from Gotland, Sweden"

Monday, July 20, 2026 10:00am
Trowbridge Hall

231 TH

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.

Title: Stable Isotope and K-Bentonite Geochemistry of the Ireviken Biogeochemical Event from Gotland, Sweden

Abstract: The Silurian Period (approximately 444 to 419 million years ago) contains at least seven major biogeochemical events in Earth history that consist of an extinction event and perturbation to the global carbon cycle. The most extensively studied of these events known as the Ireviken...

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