A former UI employee, who pocketed nearly $1 million by diverting production and design jobs for the university’s machine shop to his own business, pleaded to two charges and faces up to 10 years in prison. He will also pay over $170,000 to UI in restitution.
None of the nine campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have done so, but two conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the first.
University of Iowa Health Care administrators say they’re “evaluating our badge naming practices based on employee feedback and evolving industry standards” after 500-plus nurses and staff covered their last names with union stickers in protest.
Claire Brown, a Harvard/MIT M.D.-Ph.D. student from Iowa, was diagnosed with cancer just as she began med school. Now, she’s urging lawmakers not to jeopardize future breakthroughs by cutting research funding.
A year after the University of Northern Iowa established its new Center for Civic Education in response to directives from the Board of Regents and lawmakers, the center this week landed a $1.22 million American History and Civics Education-Seminars grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Linn County will partner with University of Iowa researchers to learn more about water quality and pollution sites within the county through three studies that will act as the “backbone” of the county’s comprehensive water quality management and mitigation plan.
The state has agreed to pay a Le Claire mother $50,000 to settle her 2022 lawsuit accusing University of Iowa Health Care providers of perforating her bowel and charring her rectum during a 2020 cervical cancer surgery — leaving her permanently impaired and limiting her ability to parent her two sons.
Cooler temperatures and rain brought people inside on Monday, but according to the National Weather Service, the cooler temperatures and rain will give way to sunny and seasonal temperatures this weekend.
Despite a lawsuit fighting the State Historical Society of Iowa's unexpected and "haphazard" closure of its Iowa City research facility and archives — and a court hearing scheduled in the dispute next week — the state on Monday began moving some of the historical documents with help from prison inmates.
“That would be a really cool discovery by itself,” University of Iowa planetary geologist Valerie Payre said. “That would mean we might not be alone in the solar system or even the universe.”
“The Whisper Place,” set in Iowa City, is Twin Cities writer Mindy Mejia’s third book in a mystery series featuring ex-cop Max and psychic Jonah.
In less than two weeks after University of Iowa Health Care on Aug. 29 notified 211,000-some people that their personal information might have been compromised in a data-breach incident, at least eight of those affected filed separate class-action lawsuits seeking both compensatory and punitive damages.
Seventeen historians, archivists, professors, authors, and donors with decades of public service are suing the State Historical Society of Iowa for haphazardly and without public input closing its Iowa City research facility and archives.
The 17th annual Iowa City Book Festival, taking place from Oct. 5-12, 2025, will showcase a dynamic mix of original events and collaborative programs with partner organizations, all celebrating the power of the written word and the exchange of ideas. Fans of fiction, poetry, social engagement and politics, or the craft of writing will find several events of interest among the usual mix of authors and topics.
Crowds line streets of downtown Iowa City for 2025 homecoming event
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