Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

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Responding to the criticism from Iowa’s Native American community about the land statements, colleges said they were taking more concrete steps.

Physicists, including those at UI, had been searching for its existence since 1964, when it first was proposed as a mechanism to explain why particles have mass.

Adding to a growing slate of updated or new facilities University of Iowa Athletics is pursuing – or has in recent years – is a new field hockey building the department wants to start planning.

The study shows more diversity in crocodiles than previous scientists thought.

A year away from when Hancher Auditorium was supposed to become self-sustaining – a charge former University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld announced amid COVID-19 cuts in 2020 – administrators have changed their tune, telling The Gazette that might not happen after all.

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In lawsuit-related settlements and judgments for the budget year that ended Thursday, Iowa paid a total $22.3 million — including $6.1 million involving Board of Regents institutions, or about 27 percent.

Meeting with local dignitaries like Iowa City’s mayor, joining area families for dinner, visiting cultural sites and businesses, and convening for conversations on entrepreneurship touch on the long list of activities lined up for a new crop of Mandela fellows back at the University of Iowa this summer.

University of Iowa Athletics must turn over all materials former players have requested related to an “independent and external review” of the Hawkeye football program — including reports on specific coaches — despite UI assertions the records are subject to “attorney-client privilege” and private.

Members of Iowa’s current Board of Regents have made monetary and in-kind political donations totaling nearly $339,500 since 2019 — primarily to Republicans, with the majority going either to Gov. Kim Reynolds or the Republican Party of Iowa.

LaVelda and LaVona Rowe started twin club at the University of Iowa and were a hit in Chicago and on TV shows,

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Four months after longtime Regent Milt Dakovich died following a battle with cancer, Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday named Seneca Cos. President and COO James “JC” Risewick to fill the regent vacancy.

Student leaders from Iowa’s public universities didn’t expressly ask the Board of Regents not to raise tuition in the fall, but they did call for help from lawmakers Monday during the board’s first reading of a