The folk rock duo Indigo Girls have canceled their Friday show on the the University of Northern Iowa campus due to an undisclosed illness, according to UNI’s Gallagher Bluedorn, which is working with the band to reschedule.
Ninety years after the University of Iowa opened its 53,000-square-foot Art Building along the Iowa River in 1936 -- hosting renowned artist and educator Grant Wood until his death in 1942 -- the campus is eyeing a long-awaited modernization of the vacant building, which has been unoccupied since the 2008 flood.
Nearly three years after airing plans to buy the entire 375,000-square-foot Old Capitol Town Center — which opened in 1981 as a downtown mall — the University of Iowa is seeking Board of Regents approval to spend $20.6 million to make it happen.
Months before the University of Iowa in May named Jill Kolesar its next College of Pharmacy dean, she applied in January for a $10 million research award to develop a new method for fighting ovarian cancer.
Although the University of Northern Iowa administration has reassessed the steps in its $50 million renovation of the UNI Dome renovation, it’s forging ahead with a second phase of the massive project -- this one focused on the fan experience.
Six decades after arriving in Iowa — where she would cofound the University of Iowa’s renowned International Writing Program, fortifying Iowa City’s writing reputation by welcoming 1,600-plus writers like herself from more than 160 countries — Hualing Nieh Engle on Monday died.
Two University of Iowa professors are working to develop an artificial intelligence camera system that could eventually track and catch child or elder abuse as it happens.
When Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital cut ties with managing operator MercyOne and brought in New York-based ToneyKorf Partners as an interim successor in spring 2023 — more than four months before filing for bankruptcy — the community hospital had just 60 days “cash on hand.”
University of Iowa Health Care is creating a new task force to review and revise the governance and management structure of its seven-year-old “Home Hemophilia Program” after auditors found “weaknesses“ and “ongoing concerns” related to its administrative, functional, and financial processes.
Since 2022, UI Health Care has scrapped those inpatient-tower-expansion plans amid significant change – including across its leadership team and its facilities footprint.
Fulfilling a legal-settlement obligation to pay an outside Title IX compliance officer to monitor gender equity within its athletics department, the University of Iowa this month produced its third and final report finding “no material issues with respect to UI’s compliance with Title IX.”
University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday announced it is expanding its air transport partnership with Air Methods -- a private medical helicopter company that recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
A garden at Northern Illinois University is part of the Edible Campus program, which aims to address food insecurity among students through creating hands-on, sustainable food systems.
University of Iowa Prof. Thomas Gruca has served as director of the Iowa Electronic Markets since 2020
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