Education

Just southeast of where the ballooning University of Iowa Health Care operation is planning to build a new $1 billion inpatient tower, UI President Barbara Wilson on Tuesday surveyed a hole in the ground that will – among many things – make that new tower possible.

Aimed at adults, Critical Conversations dives deep into topics on race, social inequities and their impact on youth

Outdoor activities, singalongs and a warm breakfast at Jack Splat!, a free outdoor event in Iowa City for kids

History is full of tales and texts of ghosts and goblins and demons and haunts that — in some ways — remain relevant today and should not be forgotten, according to a University of Iowa professor who teaches a course to that end on one specific sect of storied boogeyman: witches.

District officials answered additional questions following Gazette forum

The path Kristie Fisher took from student at Prairie High School in the 1980s to president of Kirkwood Community College today was a lot longer and more winding than the two miles of physical distance that separate the schools on the south end of Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids residents received a mailer earlier this month from Rick David and Barclay Woerner, two of nine candidates running for four seats on the Cedar Rapids school board. The Gazette’s Fact Checker looked at 11 claims on the mailer about incumbents Cindy Garlock, Dexter Merschbrock, Jennifer Neumann and David Tominsky.

Food pantries on each of Iowa’s public universities have seen huge usage spikes of late – coinciding with rising tuition rates, soaring food prices and shifting demographics in a state seeing more first-generation, low-income and minority high school graduates headed to college.