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As part of derecho-related repairs to the campus’ iconic King Memorial Chapel, scheduled for later this academic year, crews this week are removing all 3,771 pipes from the chapel’s M.P. Moller organ.

After an abrupt end to last football season — when the Hawkeye’s planned Music City Bowl appearance was canceled due to COVID-19 — the University of Iowa is bowling again this year, with thousands of black-and-gold faithful amped to join in resuming the postseason tradition.

Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization the campus deregistered for barring an openly-gay member from becoming a leader, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.

The books that have come under fire vary, but they typically feature characters or authors who are lesbian, gay, transgender or queer, and typically the person demanding the book be removed takes issue with passages that describe sexual acts.

Patients with Alzheimer ’s disease appear to be more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who don’t have the neurodegenerative disease, according to new University of Iowa research that could hold implications for ethical vaccine distribution and global policy decisions.

While declines for the first time since the 2011-12 school year occurred across most grade levels, the largest drops were in preschool and kindergarten enrollment

The district is joining Learning 2025, an initiative through The School Superintendents Association, to exit ‘the pandemic better than we entered it’

Among a handful of key areas on which the University of Iowa is focused as its heads into a post-pandemic future facing challenges old and new is mental health and supporting student well-being, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson told a group of community members Thursday.