11/26/01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Jim O’Loughlin, instructor, UNI Department of English Language and Literature, (319) 277-3577

Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

UNI professor featured during poetry reading

CEDAR FALLS -- The Final Thursday Reading Series, taking place Thursday, Nov. 29 at Vibe, will feature Barbara Lounsberry, professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.

Lounsberry, the evening’s featured reader, takes the stage after the 7:30 p.m. open mic time.

Lounsberry is the non-fiction editor of the "North American Review." A Cedar Falls native, she has published a number of critical works including "The Art Of Fact: Contemporary Artists Of Nonfiction," and "Writing Creative Non-Fiction: The Literature of Reality" (edited with best-selling writer Gay Talese).

The Final Thursday Reading Series takes place on the last Thursday of each month. There will be no reading in December. The series starts up again in January. Vibe is located at 909 W. 23^rd St.

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11/21/01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Cheryl Smith, associate UNI coordinator, Iowa Space Grant Consortium. (319) 273-6809

Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

Iowa Space Grant Conference to be held Dec. 7

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC), a NASA-sponsored group aimed at promoting aerospace research and education, will hold its 11^th annual conference Friday, Dec. 7, at Iowa Valley Community College in Marshalltown.

The invited speaker at the conference will be Craig P. Schafer of Science Applications International Corporation. He will speak on "The International Space Station: An Orbiting Outpost for World Research and Cooperation," at 12:15 p.m. in Dejardin Hall of the Iowa Valley continuing education conference facility.

Schafer, whose company is a NASA contractor, is the microgravity science requirements manager for the International Space Station's Payloads Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. He serves as a liaison between the Payloads Office and the microgravity research community. He has also flown as a test engineer aboard NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet."

At the conference, recipients of consortium research grants will report on their projects. The researchers are from the consortium's academic members -- the University of Northern Iowa, Drake University, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa -- as well as its affiliates in industry, state government and aerospace associations.

Additional information on the conference is available at the ISGC Web site at www.public.iastate.edu/~isgc or from the consortium office at 1-800-854-1667.

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