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Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.

On the eve of Nanea Estrella’s scheduled flight back to Iowa from Maui on Wednesday, news of fire on her island began to spread. She was packing for her upcoming fall semester at the University of Iowa, where last year Estrella joined the inaugural Hawkeye women’s wrestling team under head coach and fellow Hawaii-native Clarissa Chun.

“I’ve been working on corn specifically for 35 years,” said Alan Myers, an Iowa State University professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology since 1987, who has made it his “maize” mission to amplify the sweet-corn experience by making sweet corn sweeter.

Books are now being pulled from the shelves of Mason City schools' libraries in order to comply with newly enacted state legislation that Gov. Kim Reynolds says will protect children from damaging and obscene material.

After considering Mercy Iowa City’s argument that it’s an increasingly “fragile organization” forced into an emergent bankruptcy filing after suffering “significant and negative destruction of value,” a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday agreed to expedite the timeline of the hospital’s sale – presumably to the University of Iowa – setting a bid deadline of Sept. 19.

The Board of Regents on Tuesday morning unanimously approved a University of Iowa request to buy most of Iowa City-based Mercy Hospital’s assets for $20 million — without asking any questions about the deal’s finances, including how they came to the $20 million figure, where that money will come from, and what will happen with the $63 million Mercy owes on publicly-issued bonds.

Cedar Rapids built 4 new junior highs between 1920 and 1925

The school board set in motion a process to ask voters in November to pass a $220 million bond referendum to support the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s facility master plan. The board adopted ballot language, so now a volunteer committee will organize to rally support.