Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

With a collection dating back to the 1500s, there’s plenty to feast on at the Szathmary Culinary Manuscript Collection at the University of Iowa — one of the top five collections in the country. Thousands of books, manuscripts and pamphlets all seem to have one common theme: We are what we eat.

Iowa’s public universities maintained, or even increased, their first-year undergraduate counts this fall – bucking a national trend of deep losses in 18-year-old freshmen, according to special analysis of that group recently released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Having two Rhodes scholars in a single year is a feat for any state, given the program’s U.S. allotment is 32 annually and Ivy League campuses typically snag many -- including 10 in the 2025 crop of scholars.

The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.

“We never had health concerns for her. And then you get that information that she has cancer. And life will never be the same. And you wake up every day thinking that was a nightmare.”

National tour of Tony-winning musical coming to Iowa City from Dec. 6 to 8, 2024

Just months ahead of opening its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is ramping up hiring for the 469,000-square-foot campus — promoting “innovative opportunities” across a range of disciplines in the new state-of-the-art facility.

Melissa Bates, 2024 Iowa Innovator of the Year, is set to launch a new respiratory device to ‘revolutionize’ lung health monitoring.

From startups to spin-offs, incubators to accelerators, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the surrounding area have embraced entrepreneurship. This inaugural special section highlights some of those established efforts — some brand new — and the personalities that make them fly.

All roads lead globe-trotting Manchester native back home to Midwest

In addition to its Alpha Delta Phi fraternity — suspended last week after police found 56 blindfolded pledges in a basement with food thrown on them — the University of Iowa is or has investigated three other Greek chapters this fall.

After losings its vice president for research to Brown University earlier this year, the University of Iowa has named a successor in UI alumnus David C. Schwebel, who’s served as associate vice president for research facilities and infrastructure at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2021.

The 21-year-old Riverdale man arrested early Friday as University of Iowa police investigated what appeared to be hazing in a fraternity basement repeatedly stood between officers and witnesses, telling police at one point, “You can (expletive) leave.”

Aided by more than $11 million in grant funding, researchers plan to build a huge drilling rig and determine whether carbon dioxide can be permanently stored underground in Iowa.

The University of Iowa on Friday placed a chapter on interim suspension after law enforcement discovered “several dozen pledges blindfolded in the basement.”