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.”
Seven years later -- after securing a record-setting $115 million grant to pursue the project, navigating delays through COVID, and losing its leader in professor Kletzing’s unexpected passing -- the groundbreaking $165.7 million mission is nearing launch.
The Iowa Appeals Court has upheld the sentence of a man charged with helping his son avoid an attempted murder and robbery trial in Iowa City by fleeing to Jordan. But the man was released on parole less than a year into a five-year sentence.
“University teachers shall be entitled to academic freedom in the classroom in discussing the teachers’ course subject, but shall not introduce into the teaching controversial matters that have no relation to the subject.”
A flag display at the University of Iowa displays 6,000 small U.S. flags in the shape of an “I” in honor of Veterans Day
Many businesses in Eastern Iowa are offering free meals and services to honor those who’ve served on Veterans Day.
Six days after Donald Trump achieved a historic victory that will return him to the White House next year, controversial conservative commentator Michael Knowles on Monday will speak at the University of Iowa — inciting push back from some on campus in the form of vandalism and planned protests.
The chair of the Iowa House Education Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon called on University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson to terminate a UI Health Care fellow for a comment he posted on X following the presidential election.
Iowa’s public universities in recent months have made progress on complying with a new law restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related spending, training, and programming, but some regents and lawmakers say their work isn’t done.
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