Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Today’s event put on hold so fans can watch the University of Iowa Women’s Basketball championship game.

“For over four hours, they were just completely fighting about me,” Jasmyn Jordan said. “Calling me a white supremacist, a Nazi, a bigot, a token, all that kind of stuff, which was really weird to me. Because, first off, I hadn't even gotten the chance to state my position, state what I believe.”

University of Iowa police on Thursday morning received a report of a male making threats with a knife on campus, according to a Hawk Alert distributed to students, faculty, and staff.

The proclamation came at the start of the University of Iowa’s annual Hawkeye Caucus Day at the Capitol in Des Moines – where students, staff, and faculty convened in the rotunda to show off to elected officials and visitors the research, outreach, impact, honors and awards they’ve achieved.

Bill, which heads next to the Senate, would merge Iowa’s treatment networks for mental health and substance use issues into a unified behavioral health system. Currently, the networks are made up of 32 regions in the state — 13 for mental health care and 19 for substance use issues.

Although Theresa Sault-Brill sought $95,000 from the university to remedy what she characterized as “significant lost wages” and “emotional distress,” she signed a $20,000 settlement March 28 and agreed not to pursue or accept any future UI employment.

Facing concerns and objections from pensioners and other entities owed millions in “unsecured” claims, a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City – by means of attorneys burning through thousands by the hour – have negotiated a proposal for how to distribute the hospital’s limited resources.

The Iowa Cancer Registry is expanding the way staff investigate whether the environment — air, water, chemicals in a workplace — might be causing cancer. In a reversal of the traditional process, researchers will start with a location with known contamination and see if people are sick nearby.

Hospitals may be testing Maria Iliakova’s idea by this fall

COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.

“This university head came in and told us that Lia being on the team was non-negotiable. They also told us that if we ever spoke out about it, we would regret it, and we would spend the rest of our lives wishing that we hadn’t.”

In this four-part series, The Gazette investigates Iowa’s cancer crisis — and what the state is doing about it

Martha Graham Dance Company showcasing UI students, N.Y. dancers in works bridging 20th, 21st centuries.

The University of Iowa chapter of conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom next week will welcome to campus the former teammate of transgender NCAA Division I national champion swimmer Lia Thomas for a talk titled, “Men do not belong in women’s sports.”

Editor’s note: A reference to a protester charged Dec. 11 has been changed from the original publication. (Note published 3/18, …