An Iowa State University scientist has teamed up with an Ames entrepreneur to launch a company that plans to revolutionize fertilization on farms across the state and around the world.
Katie Mills Giorgio Discover Engineers Week Feb. 23, 2026 3:54 pm1d ago
An Iowa State University scientist has teamed up with an Ames entrepreneur to launch a company that plans to revolutionize fertilization on farms across the state and around the world.
Joe Fisher Discover Engineers Week Feb. 23, 2026 3:52 pm1d ago
Shive-Hattery partners with local colleges to develop a diverse talent pipeline.
Discover Engineers Week Feb. 22, 2026 5:00 am2d ago
Produced in partnership with the Iowa Engineering Society, E-Week is an annual celebration of engineering and all that it, and engineers, contribute to our world. The Gazette's E-Week showcases a variety of engineering topics.
Higher Ed Feb. 23, 2026 10:56 am1d ago
With enough years now passed to determine how — if at all — the Board of Regents’ test-optional admissions change in 2020 has correlated with student success, new data reveals four-year graduation rates of those who didn’t submit test results to be on par with students who did, but earned lower admission scores.
By Brooklyn Draisey, - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Higher Ed Feb. 23, 2026 4:04 pm1d ago
Starting this fall, new students to Luther College in Decorah will have access to the Luther Promise — an initiative composed of four commitments aimed at ensuring student success during their college career and after.
Higher Ed Feb. 19, 2026 10:05 pm4d ago
University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of “low-enrollment” degrees and majors compelled by the Legislature and Board of Regents.
Higher Ed Feb. 18, 2026 2:26 pm6d ago
University of Iowa Health Care and its medical college next week will seek Board of Regents approval for more than $32 million in upgrades -- including $12.2 million to bring the radiology and imaging department at its downtown campus up to UIHC standards.
Higher Ed Feb. 17, 2026 2:43 pm7d ago
Months earlier than usual — and with legislation advancing to prohibit tuition increases in one way or another — Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday proposed rate increases for the 2026-27 academic year aimed at addressing “uncertainty surrounding other primary revenue sources.”
Higher Ed Feb. 16, 2026 9:06 am8d ago
Amelia Earley, like every family, has a story about cancer. And while she doesn’t mention it or talk about herself when connecting with the families she serves through UI Dance Marathon, she pulls from it a level of understanding and empathy developed over her formative years as a big sister to a cancer patient.
State Government Feb. 16, 2026 8:19 am8d ago
A proposal to bar Iowa’s public universities from hiring Chinese citizens on H-1B visas — or any person holding those visas from countries the federal government has designated as a “foreign adversary” — passed out of the House Higher Education Committee this week.
Higher Ed Feb. 16, 2026 8:27 am8d ago
Anticipating a $147 million deficit over the next six years -- just under $25 million a year -- Iowa State University Athletics this week announced news of financial help in the form of a $5 million commitment to endow its athletics director position.
Higher Ed Feb. 12, 2026 2:02 pm12d ago
The Republican chair of Iowa’s House Higher Education Committee has referred three University of Iowa job advertisements to the attorney general for containing “DEI language” — which has been banned by recently-passed legislation.
Higher Ed Feb. 11, 2026 12:50 pm13d ago
The Board of Regents received just one response to its request for qualifications from consulting firms interested in leading the search for a permanent executive director of its new University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom.
Higher Ed Feb. 10, 2026 2:37 pm14d ago
A University of Iowa doctoral candidate was escorted out of a higher education subcommittee Monday following a contentious back-and-forth over a DEI-related bill, compelling the woman to take a swipe at Rep. Steve Holt, R-Denison, as she left.
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