The instructors — including a brother of Rep. Adam Zabner, D-Iowa City — were with a faculty member of the partner institution when the attack occurred, according to Cornell, which has been in contact with the instructors and is helping them.
Her appeal claimed her case was prejudiced by the jury being mistakenly instructed that hugs are a form of sexual conduct and by the exclusion from evidence of the initial findings of a school investigation. She also argued there was insufficient evidence that her behavior elicited a pattern of sexual conduct.
Following years of planning, fundraising challenges, negotiations, discord, and compromise, Iowa State University is seeking Board of Regents approval to enter into a “creative” agreement with the City of Ames to help finance a new $200 million CyTown development and maintain four ISU buildings central to its arts and entertainment core.
West High School junior Layan Ahmed will lead the organization’s national executive council for the next year.
School’s out for summer for many of Iowa’s college and university students, but that doesn’t mean work has stopped across the sprawling campuses — where hard hats have replaced commencement caps and skid loaders have taken the place of scooters.
A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday afternoon confirmed a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for the former Mercy Iowa City hospital, despite push back from its former managing partner MercyOne — which now, under the plan, remains exposed to future lawsuits.
Justin Blietz on voluntary leave after asking middle school’s staff to join him
Three busy weeks into her new job as Northern Iowa’s athletics director, Megan Franklin may not have all the detailed answers just yet that the most fervent Panthers fans are looking for.
Years after first initiating a plan to expand its maternity services — which delivered nearly 3,000 babies in 2023 — University of Iowa Health Care next week will seek Board of Regents permission to pursue a $74 million, 30,000-square-foot renovation for expanded labor, delivery, and postpartum patient care.
The criminal trial of a former University of Iowa student and fraternity brother arrested in connection with an alleged 2020 sexual assault, which was supposed to start this week, has been postponed pending a related civil trial.
The University of Iowa is eyeing an expansion and renovation of its Tippie College of Business — with the project to expand and modernize both the Pappajohn Business Building and nearby Gilmore Hall expected to cost $45 to $60 million.
To settle a lawsuit scheduled for trial in May, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of one of two Iowa State University students who died three years ago on Little Wall Lake during a crew club accident.
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