The number of Eastern Iowans needing or wanting emergency care has soared over the last two decades – as has the severity of the health issues patients are facing – cramping ERs, crowding wait rooms, and compelling hospitals to expand, renovate, and build.
Dozens of community members and musicians braved freezing temperatures Friday to celebrate the 50th annual Holiday Tubas performance at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Cyclones teetered on the brink of defeat several times while taking the Hawkeyes best shot, then found a way to win late at Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Over the years, the concert’s proximity to the holidays snowballed into a full-on holiday theme – outfitting Yeats as the conductor in a Santa suit and inspiring UI School of Music students to come up with more and more tuba arrangements of the seasonal classics, from “Sleigh Ride” and “Silent Night” to “Frosty the Snowman” and “Grandma got run over by a reindeer.”
The Iowa Hawkeye and Missouri Tigers football programs finally are getting their Music City matchup Dec. 30, four years after COVID in 2020 derailed their first scheduled faceoff – returning the University of Iowa to Nashville just two years after it shut out Kentucky 21-0 in the 2022 Music City Bowl.
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
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