On the Iowa Web

FALL 1998
Volume 42, Number 1

IN THIS ISSUE

Exploring Careers Beyond Medicine

Geology in
Puerto Rico

Human Rights

A Conversation with the President

New Honors Director

A Time for Questions

On the Iowa Web

Major Topics...

Parent Times Briefs

We're beginning a new feature with this issue of Parent Times. Part of the research arsenal now for students and professors alike is the collection of international computer servers called the Internet, and its subset, the World Wide Web. The University of Iowa's World Wide Web site contains hundreds of pages of information. If you have access to the Web, at home, work, or public library, here are web addresses of interesting sites to browse.

Professor Christopher Roy of the School of Art and Art History has established a site called "Art and Life in Africa Online" at http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/. It's been selected as a top Web site by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Art is perhaps the most eloquent statement a people can make about themselves and serves particularly well as a tool for exploring the life and culture of an area," the text explains. "The passage of important life events aremarked using art objects. The text of the program will follow the course of life from the cradle to the grave."

Color photographs show art works from each stage of life in many areas of Africa: Newborn/Infancy, Childhood, Initiation and Education, Adulthood, Marriage and Eligibility, Religion, Elderhood, Leadership, and Death and Re-birth. With each artwork is a commentary, links to maps showing where it was created, and links to information on African traditions.