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The Domestic Violence Intervention Program on Wednesday announced it has hired as its new program director for sexual assault services Shell Feijo, an author, instructor, and trained victims advocate who is listed as an adjunct faculty member with UI, where she earned a doctorate of interdisciplinary studies — specifically race, class and gender.

University of Iowa experts say their research suggests state cursive standards could be a good thing — to the extent that a focus on cursive gets kids focused on handwriting.

Propelled by high-impact research — including one project targeting extreme wind events, like the storm that blasted Iowa on Monday — Iowa State University on Tuesday announced a third straight year of record research funding that for the second straight year topped $300 million.

New administration building to open this fall, creating room for academic programs to grow.

In a hypercompetitive higher education landscape — where colleges and universities are vying not just for top students but the best and brightest faculty and staff — Iowa State University has entered a new partnership with employment-centered social media platform LinkedIn aimed at making it “an employer of choice regionally and across the world.”

It’s about 10,000 more than the nonpartisan legislative services agency estimated would participate this year when the law was passed in 2023.

A year before the University of Iowa plans to start an $18 million expansion and modernization of its 51-year-old Cambus Maintenance Facility -- in part, to make space for 12 future electric vehicles -- the campus on Thursday announced it has landed a $16.4 million federal grant to help UI advance those transit plans.

Adding to turnover atop the University of Iowa’s 12 colleges is Kevin Washburn, who’s leaving his post as dean of the College of Law in December after six years on campus.