Education

Patients say small gestures can have an out-sized impact when going through cancer treatment -- even if they’re from complete strangers.

In its push to become coal-free by 2025 – or sooner – by adding more “green” to its energy palette, the University of Iowa is considering a second utilities-related public-private partnership, this one for the production of renewable fuel pellets to help power its sprawling campus.

For the first time in decades, all three of Iowa’s public universities want to update the peer institutions with which they compare themselves to “more closely align” with their respective campuses.

Educators will receive stipend, credit, $700 in classroom materials

Compounding escalating costs associated with the University of Iowa’s construction of its 14-story Stead Family Children’s Hospital, campus officials are asking permission to spend $45 million replacing damaged windows on nine floors – tripling the $15 million they originally planned to spend replacing cracked or delaminated windows on two floors.

Nearly 55 years after a private firm built the Mayflower Apartment Community overlooking the Iowa River, marketed to students as a “luxury” dorm – and 40 years after the University of Iowa bought the eight-story building outright – UI is planning to sell its Mayflower Residence Hall.

House renovated by Marion, Linn-Mar high school students in partnership with the Marion Economic Development Corporation

Both full-time and part-time employees were laid off in two programs the college is closing: Dental Technology and the Energy Production and Distribution program.