Since putting into an endowment $985.9 million of the $1.165 billion it received in an upfront payment as part of a 50-year deal to let a private collaborative operate its utilities system, the University of Iowa’s P3 investment fund has increased $139.9 million, officials told The Gazette.
All the talk of sending more people into the weightless expanse above Earth has NASA thinking more intentionally about the risk of cancer-causing radiation exposure to astronauts; what constitutes an acceptable level; how to communicate risks; and when and how to take them.
University of Iowa grad Dustin Godsey is in “the place to be” right now as Bucks chief marketing officer.
After being frozen for over a year during the pandemic, federal student loan payments are set to resume Oct. 1.
Enrollment at Iowa’s public universities is down this summer after a pandemic-plagued fall and spring — dragging Iowa State’s numbers to their lowest level in at least a decade and resurrecting 90s-era University of Iowa summer counts.
During her yearlong $439,000 “special assistant” to the president assignment that ended Wednesday, former University of Iowa Provost Montse Fuentes was charged with assessing the impact of COVID-19 across higher education and reporting best practices for navigating the pandemic.
Kohawk graduate served as athletics equipment manager, school’s biggest supporter
As American colleges and universities start charting a new course through an athletics landscape letting students monetize their name, image, and likeness, Iowa’s public universities are seeking help tracking athlete activities and educating them of new opportunities, obligations and potential pitfalls.
Near the end of the first full budget year since the University of Iowa initiated a $1.165 billion public-private partnership to operate its utilities system, campus administrators have identified seven projects to receive a total $12 million in funding from the partnership-enabled endowment.
Student government leaders want lawmakers to increase state appropriations and reverse the state’s generational disinvestment in Iowa’s public universities.
Iowa’s Department of Education on Wednesday announced it’s committing $20 million of federal pandemic aid toward a new University of Iowa-based “Center for School Mental Health” that will, among other things, offer teacher training and needs assessments statewide.
Iowa on Tuesday became home to the National Science Foundation’s fourth and final wireless research platform — supported through a $100 million public-private partnership — thanks to a $16 million investment in Iowa State-led research aimed at achieving universal and affordable rural broadband.
“Reentry anxiety refers to fear that can accompany letting go of the safeguards that protected us during the COVID-19 pandemic and our reentry into a world that has been changed by the virus,” Pawlak said. “This fear can manifest as a reluctance to switch back to pre-pandemic practices.”
3.5% increase proposed at the University of Iowa and Iowa State; 1.5% at the University of Northern Iowa
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