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In lawsuit-related settlements and judgments for the budget year that ended Thursday, Iowa paid a total $22.3 million — including $6.1 million involving Board of Regents institutions, or about 27 percent.

Meeting with local dignitaries like Iowa City’s mayor, joining area families for dinner, visiting cultural sites and businesses, and convening for conversations on entrepreneurship touch on the long list of activities lined up for a new crop of Mandela fellows back at the University of Iowa this summer.

University of Iowa Athletics must turn over all materials former players have requested related to an “independent and external review” of the Hawkeye football program — including reports on specific coaches — despite UI assertions the records are subject to “attorney-client privilege” and private.

Members of Iowa’s current Board of Regents have made monetary and in-kind political donations totaling nearly $339,500 since 2019 — primarily to Republicans, with the majority going either to Gov. Kim Reynolds or the Republican Party of Iowa.

University of Iowa deputy athletics director Barbara Burke will retire at the end of her current contract in June 2023, the athletics department announced Friday.

Trusted adults serve as positive role models in Big Brother Big Sisters of Johnson County.

Iowa State University suspended the hockey club for a year, and players, parents and alumni fired back on social media Thursday, describing the investigation as flawed.

Five decades after the passage of Title IX, many challenges remain for women’s sports — both at Iowa and across the country.