A study conducted by Iowa State University researchers, in partnership with the National Animal Disease Center, suggests bird flu could spread among mammals through mammary glands as Iowa continues low-level surveillance of the virus this year.
Although well below the numbers that cross the commencement stage every spring, more than 4,100 students at one of Iowa’s public universities have applied to graduate this winter — with ceremonies and celebrations planned throughout the weekend.
Event for Iowa high schools, colleges and universities was Dec. 3-5, 2025, in Des Moines.
A Des Moines-based government and public affairs firm the Board of Regents recently hired to lobby on behalf of the University of Iowa this upcoming legislative session has resigned before its work could even start.
A decade after Iowa’s Board of Regents launched its “most comprehensive efficiency study” in a quarter century — which consultants at the time said could save up to $80 million a year — regents this month revived the charge to find new revenues and efficiencies across the universities they oversee.
Years after flagging an impending enrollment cliff — predicted as a result of changing demographics, including a financially-motivated drop in the birth rate during the 2008 Great Recession — U.S. colleges and universities have arrived at the precipice.
Iowa researchers are looking to identify “hot spots” of vehicle-wildlife collisions and examining what steps could be taken to reduce them.
Iowa’s Board of Regents has hired a new Des Moines-based government and public affairs firm with ties to Republican heavy-hitters like Gov. Terry Branstad to lobby on behalf of the University of Iowa this upcoming session.
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With construction underway on a sprawling CyTown district — aspiring to integrate Iowa State University’s athletics and entertainment venues into an innovative year-round destination — ISU has agreed with developers on building plans, a financing structure, and financial projections showing massive gains in the coming decades.
Iowa, Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa give exhibition performances
Due to last week’s winter storm that dumped nearly 15 inches of snow on the Cedar Falls-Waterloo area and a foot in many other communities, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University are canceling classes Monday “to provide students more time to return to campus from Thanksgiving break.”
The hundreds of faculty, staff, students, and community members who offered feedback on the two finalists for Iowa State University president gave higher marks to and more positive comments for the candidate not chosen -- Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Benjamin Houlton.
Given incoming Iowa State University President David Cook won’t begin his tenure until March 1, 2026, the Board of Regents this week will name recently retired College of Business Dean David Spalding to serve as interim president for three months.
The news — garnering broad applause from a packed crowd in the union — doubled as a welcome home for Cook, who was born in Mary Greeley Medical Center, graduated from Ames High, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State in 1992.
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