It’s about 10,000 more than the nonpartisan legislative services agency estimated would participate this year when the law was passed in 2023.
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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.
After seeing big declines in alcohol-related driving deaths in the 1990s, progress nationally has stalled — compelling University of Iowa researchers to study whether a growing breadth of automotive technology could again move the needle.
After taking over Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital and its handful of clinics in January with a $28 million bid in a contentious bankruptcy auction, the University of Iowa has sold the Mercy clinic in Kalona that it obtained through the process to Washington County Hospital and Clinics for $425,000.
Nearly three years after longtime University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Director George Weiner announced plans to step down, the health care enterprise has announced his permanent replacement in Mark Burkard.
The University of Iowa Police Department has added decals featuring 988, the national suicide and crisis lifeline number, to all its squad cars and Nite Ride vehicles.
The FBI’s Crime Complaint Center found Iowans reported nearly 4,000 complaints about cybercrime in 2023, a 26 percent increase compared with 2022.
Cities around Iowa turn to UNI’s Public Art Incubator for assistance with their public art collections, offering students hands-on experience as they “contribute to their communities in a real way.” Students restored two Cedar Rapids sculptures through the program this summer.
Now in training mode, Olivia Chambers is feeling excited as one of 21 women and 33 total athletes chosen for the Paralympic swim team. She also becomes the first UNI swimmer in school history named to a U.S. Paralympic team and joins an elite list of Panther athletes to qualify for either the Olympic or Paralympic Games.
More than two years after a retired Iowa State University agronomy professor sued her former employer, the Board of Regents, and state for wage and gender discrimination, the Iowa Supreme Court has retained her appeal of a lower court’s August ruling limiting her ability to recover lost wages.
There is currently a shortage of around 80,000 truck drivers in the U.S., a number that could double over the next five years. Effects of the shortage can be felt all across from hometown businesses to family farms to the grocery store.
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