Responding to demands from a state lawmaker and Iowa’s Human Society director – made last week after “disturbing” Capitol Hill testimony about “painful” research involving dogs – the University of Iowa reiterated its “unwavering commitment to the health and well-being of research animals.”
Six-plus decades after the University of Iowa began managing a 485-acre swath of mostly woodland known as the Macbride Nature Recreation Area — host to popular UI programs like School of the Wild, the Iowa Raptor Project, and Iowa Wildlife Camps — the university is reviewing its use of that land “to ensure fiscal sustainability and consistency with the university’s mission of excellent education and research opportunities for a broad array of students.”
Interspersed with their chants opposing tuition and fee increases during last week’s Board of Regents meeting, protesting graduate students demanded their universities divest from companies tied to Israel – echoing a refrain heard from campus protesters nationally in recent weeks and months.
For one-third of Kirkwood Community College’s 58-year existence, James Mollenhauer has served on the campus’ Board of Trustees, including as chair for the last seven years. But after 20 years of service, Mollenhauer – at age 85 – officially will retire Oct. 10.
In the 40 years since the UI formed an autonomous Department of Theatre Arts in 1984 — about 10 years after it founded the Iowa Playwrights Workshop — the iconic writing campus never has had an alumni win a Tony Award. But that could change Sunday.
Despite graduate student calls for a tuition freeze and eliminiation of fees -- alongside undergraduate testimony about mounting financial pressure on Iowa’s public university students -- Iowa’s Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved across-the-board rate hikes for upcoming academic year.
Both University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson and Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen will get a $60,000 pay raise in the new budget year starting July 1, following performance evaluations this week with their governing Board of Regents.
University of Iowa Health Care – undertaking more than $1 billion in new, expanded, or upgraded facility projects – wants to increase patient rates 6 percent in the upcoming budget year beginning July 1 to keep up with health care inflation, among other things.
A state lawmaker is demanding the University of Iowa immediately audit its animal testing programs and pursue alternative research methods based on a watchdog group’s findings that UI researchers experimented on donated “pet dogs” who then were “euthanized and dissected, despite the available treatments.”
An Associated Press photographer captured a moment between two Iowa natives — 103-year-old Fred Taylor, who commanded a P51 Mustang during World War II, and 19-year-old Sawyer Slezak, a 2023 Prairie High School graduate and cadet third class at the U.S. Air Force Academy — when the two of them were in France last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
As he campaigns for reelection, President Joe Biden frequently touts his work on student debt, pointing to the millions of people who received cancellation under his watch. Yet relatively few Americans say they're fans of his work on the issue, even among those who have student loans.
Chinese police have detained a suspect in a stabbing attack on four instructors from Cornell College who were teaching at a Chinese university in the northeast city of Jilin, officials said Tuesday.
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.
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.
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