With the University of Iowa’s pending $20.6 million purchase of 45 percent of the Old Capitol Town Center slated for Board of Regents approval Thursday — making it full owner of the nearly two-block former mall — the campus will nearly double what it already has spent buying the first 55 percent.
Three years after $20 million in federal pandemic aid allowed the University of Iowa in 2021 to open a new “Center for School Mental Health” -- and two years after receiving a $15 million donation to keep it going -- the center is expanding to reach more school-aged kids and moving to a “fee-for-services model.”
At University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, specialists have been performing cochlear implant surgeries for more than 40 years.
The first of its kind in the nation, the Geriatric and Special Needs Clinic at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry trains future dentists in the conditions specific to aging adults and those with developmental disabilities.
In his 14th year at the University of Iowa — where he earned his doctorate in religious studies and has been a visiting professor since, focused on American religion and its intersection with popular culture — Dean has become an expert in “reading cemeteries,” even leading a pre-Halloween cemetery walk through Oakland for the last two years.
Coralville company’s pioneering treatment now in clinical trials
Ninety years after the University of Iowa opened its 53,000-square-foot Art Building along the Iowa River in 1936 -- hosting renowned artist and educator Grant Wood until his death in 1942 -- the campus is eyeing a long-awaited modernization of the vacant building, which has been unoccupied since the 2008 flood.
Nearly three years after airing plans to buy the entire 375,000-square-foot Old Capitol Town Center — which opened in 1981 as a downtown mall — the University of Iowa is seeking Board of Regents approval to spend $20.6 million to make it happen.
Months before the University of Iowa in May named Jill Kolesar its next College of Pharmacy dean, she applied in January for a $10 million research award to develop a new method for fighting ovarian cancer.
University of Iowa General Counsel and Vice President for Legal Affairs James Jorgenson sent the Democrat’s campaign a letter Friday requesting it cease and desist from further use of the UI’s protected marks.
Six decades after arriving in Iowa — where she would cofound the University of Iowa’s renowned International Writing Program, fortifying Iowa City’s writing reputation by welcoming 1,600-plus writers like herself from more than 160 countries — Hualing Nieh Engle on Monday died.
Two University of Iowa professors are working to develop an artificial intelligence camera system that could eventually track and catch child or elder abuse as it happens.
When Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital cut ties with managing operator MercyOne and brought in New York-based ToneyKorf Partners as an interim successor in spring 2023 — more than four months before filing for bankruptcy — the community hospital had just 60 days “cash on hand.”
University of Iowa Health Care is creating a new task force to review and revise the governance and management structure of its seven-year-old “Home Hemophilia Program” after auditors found “weaknesses“ and “ongoing concerns” related to its administrative, functional, and financial processes.
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