UI building namesake Samuel L. Becker dies at 89

Mason calls him a ‘leading member’ of university community

IOWA CITY — A longtime University of Iowa faculty member who earned three UI degrees and for whom the Communications Studies Building is named died Thursday. Samuel L. Becker was 89. Becker was universally admired and respected, UI President Sally Mason said in a statement, the kind of professor who was an excellent leader, a [...]

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