Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

A look back at the top news stories from the week of Aug. 21

While fans of both schools have asked why athletes would risk losing eligibility and possibly going to jail over relatively small amounts of money, National Council on Problem Gambling executive director Keith Whyte said he isn't surprised by allegations of athletes betting on their own games and risking a permanent ban.

Although Mercy Iowa City wants an expeditious sale of its assets – after the 150-year-old hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month – its bondholders and creditors this week asked a judge to tap the brakes to give them time for due diligence and to maximize the “value of the sale.”

Dr. Melvin Donaldson started as an EMS fellow in July through the University of Iowa. He works with various local emergency agencies to train as a certified emergency physician.

Having gone years without a property-value assessment – given its tax-exempt status as state owned – the University of Iowa’s for-sale Mayflower Residence Hall over the summer received an updated evaluation that, on a preliminary basis, valued it at $30.7 million.

Iowa’s public universities are back in session, with students kicking off the fall semester this week under sweltering heat — making the start especially uncomfortable for some of the tens of thousands who moved into residence hall rooms without air conditioning.

Although Mercy Iowa City has signed a letter of intent to sell most of its assets to the University of Iowa for $20 million, a review of assessment records show the 150-year-old community hospital’s 19 properties – all of which are intended for UI – are valued at more than $137.3 million.

Bugeja’s concern about false information is one of many AI-related worries facing instructors and professors as students return to campus this fall. Others include plagiarism, misrepresentation, and various forms of cheating and technology-aided shortcuts students might employ, depriving themselves of material learning and tricking instructors into thinking they produced or wrote content they didn’t.

Accusing Mercy Iowa City Hospital of misdirecting blame for its “prolonged, observed deterioration over the course of several years” that brought it to “being liquidated through a bankruptcy fire sale process for a mere $20 million,” bondholders have asked a judge to appoint an examiner to answer several of its key questions.

Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.

On the eve of Nanea Estrella’s scheduled flight back to Iowa from Maui on Wednesday, news of fire on her island began to spread. She was packing for her upcoming fall semester at the University of Iowa, where last year Estrella joined the inaugural Hawkeye women’s wrestling team under head coach and fellow Hawaii-native Clarissa Chun.

Since leaving her job, Pattee has been receiving pension checks. But Mercy Iowa City’s decision last week to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and initiate a $20 million sale of its assets to the University of Iowa has her — and many other current and former Mercy employees like her — wondering whether and for how long that will continue.

In a letter updating its tens of thousands of patients on how this week’s news of Mercy Iowa City’s bankruptcy could affect them and their care, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on Friday vowed to “remain independent” — even as the 150-year-old community hospital, and Steindler’s longtime partner, “will cease to exist.”

After considering Mercy Iowa City’s argument that it’s an increasingly “fragile organization” forced into an emergent bankruptcy filing after suffering “significant and negative destruction of value,” a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday agreed to expedite the timeline of the hospital’s sale – presumably to the University of Iowa – setting a bid deadline of Sept. 19.

The Board of Regents on Tuesday morning unanimously approved a University of Iowa request to buy most of Iowa City-based Mercy Hospital’s assets for $20 million — without asking any questions about the deal’s finances, including how they came to the $20 million figure, where that money will come from, and what will happen with the $63 million Mercy owes on publicly-issued bonds.