The university has conducted more than 600 deep brain stimulation surgeries, according to Greenlee, who’s done many of them. And the hospital recently put out a request for bids from suppliers of deep brain stimulation technology in hopes of keeping its surgical offerings on the cutting edge.
West Willow Elementary students and staff are finding their stride in the first new school building in the Cedar Rapids Community School District to be built in nearly 20 years.
The Iowa City school district eliminated most of its seclusion rooms in 2018 after a state investigation, but the rooms are still occasionally needed for student safety. The district reported a seclusion room was used 27 times in the 2020-21 school year, down 1,400 in the 2018-19 school year.
With 35 years of academia behind him, 18 years as a university vice president under his belt, and nearly two decades into his faith walk as a Catholic convert, Todd Olson didn’t want to wait for the shifting higher education landscape to settle before pursuing his dream to become a college president.
As part of an initiative to build the computer science education capacity at Iowa schools, the state’s area education agencies have been awarded nearly $1 million in grants to provide professional development to more than 830 educators.
Working at off-hours and from off-campus locations is “not the new norm,” according to a final University of Iowa “Future of Work” report
About 100 students at Boulder Peak Intermediate School in Marion were among the Iowa students casting votes and learning how democracy works.
Advocates for the program say the closure will create challenges for teen parents trying to finish high school.
For 14 years, University of Iowa’s collection has had no home. Soon that will change.
More than 14 years after the University of Iowa initiated plans to build a new home for its internationally-acclaimed Nonfiction Writing Program — a window of time that saw three UI presidents, a flood, and a pandemic — the campus in March began work on the $1.6 million project.
Early childhood educators and paraprofessionals are two career fields facing workforce shortages.
Hours of practice lead dedicated scholars to championships
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