Shy of firing university employees who made inflammatory comments following the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week, Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday directed its three public campuses to conduct immediate investigations into any employee accused of violating their social media policy.
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When the Board of Regents convenes in Cedar Falls this week, they’ll meet in closed session to discuss university employees who made inflammatory online posts following the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
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Shortly after U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Thursday called for the University of Iowa to name is new legislative-imposed Center for Intellectual Freedom after slain Republican-activist Charlie Kirk, Board of Regents President Sherry Bates issued a statement on Kirk’s shooting and the new civic centers on its campuses.
All three of Iowa’s public universities this fall are reporting larger freshman classes than last year — with both Iowa State and the University of Iowa boasting their second-largest first-year classes ever after peaking in 2016.
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The Board of Regents’ pared-down funding ask comes after lawmakers rejected its $30.3 million request last session and instead offered a $4 million bump, largely supporting legislative priorities and ignoring university appeals.
For weeks and months last fall, according to emails obtained by The Gazette through an open records request, University of Iowa administrators, staff, committee and community members discussed a range of Macbride Nature Recreation Area issues.
Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA’s 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, telescope toward the International Space Station, a UI graduate research assistant has won a NASA award to design and prototype a more compact, lightweight version of the NICER.
After years of construction on its main-campus emergency room -- spanning two stories, involving several departments, and expanding capacity across the high-demand space -- University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday debuted a new pediatric-specific emergency room within its larger now-finished new ER.
Hawkeye fan favorite Cooper DeJean — fresh off his Super Bowl win as a rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles — is taking the “breakfast of champions” concept to heart by directing sales from a new self-branded cereal to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
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