Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Companies looking for minerals often go to the Iowa Geologic Site and Sample Tracking Program, a University of Iowa repository of 10 million feet of drilling samples, rock chips from more than 40,000 wells and nearly 60,000 driller’s logs from across the state.

A realtor selling the University of Iowa’s 326,000-square-foot Mayflower Residence Hall for $45 million said four “very qualified, interested people are actively pursuing it.” The realtor said only one interested person early on raised the idea of tearing down the eight-story dorm, which, given zoning constraints, may not be feasible.

Data collected at the Coralville basin is used by the U.S. Navy to build safer, stealthier ships and by private companies to design things like underwater platforms to support offshore wind farms.

State relations remain a preeminent concern for Iowa’s public university system, compelling the regents to try something new. With the recent retirement of UNI’s state relations officer Mary Braun, the board is looking to hire a firm – instead of just one person – to replace her.

Both of Iowa’s public research universities in the budget year that just ended generated hundreds of millions in external funding to support experiments and projects across their respective campuses – although neither brought in as much as last year’s record-setting totals.

Under a decade into its 50-year, $2 million-plus lease agreement with the Grant Wood Area Education Agency for space in its Coralville-based regional center, Kirkwood has decided to end its arrangement with Grant Wood early — paying back $1.7 million to make it happen.

Commission, collaborations, musical and Broadway superstars in the lineup

Under two years from the 2025 deadline Iowa set for itself seven years ago to get at least 70 percent of its workforce some form of education or training after high school, a new Gallup poll out Tuesday reveals confidence in higher education has plummeted — especially among Republicans.

Four weeks into summer school across Iowa’s public universities, enrollment remains below pre-pandemic levels — although campus leaders are “encouraged” by signs student counts are normalizing.

The day before the University of Iowa’s new private utilities partner sued the campus, accusing it of breaching obligations, the university – again – had accused the partner in writing of failing to meet performance standards, demanding it pay another $5 million for the shortcomings.

Nearly four years into a 50-year $1.165 billion public-private partnership for the operation of its utilities system, the University of Iowa is continuing to massage its process for distributing proceeds from the massive deal across campus.

Williams, at the time, was taking a well-deserved pause from decades of professional exploration, discovery, growth, and development involving health-care shaping, life-saving, and soul-enriching – and at times crushing – investigation and innovation.

To make up for missed deadlines and late data from the state, Iowa Auditor Rob Sand this week had his office for the first time push out “single audit reports” for each of Iowa’s public universities to spare them from threats to federal funding and certifications that require annual financial reporting.

For nearly eight years, the University of Iowa has touted the work and stories of its high-achieving researchers, scholars, and creators through a

The day before the University of Iowa announced who would serve on a revamped search committee for its second attempt to find a new vice president for medical affairs, a committee co-chair asked the woman who later would be chosen for the job to apply.