Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

University of Iowa officials on Wednesday disclosed plans over next decade to buy Old Capitol Town Center, sell its 109-year-old downtown Jefferson Building, modernize its memorial union, replace its IMU parking ramp, and upgrade its athletics facilities.

Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday announced no changes to its campus guidance or operations for the upcoming spring semester, scheduled to begin Jan. 18.

Following a vast and swift trend sweeping four-year colleges and universities nationally, the Iowa Board of Regents is moving to permanently eliminate the mandate that applicants to their public universities submit either SAT or ACT scores.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay the former director of a University of Iowa program for students with disabilities $325,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing the institution and Board of Regents of age and gender discrimination and of violating her civil rights for equal pay.

Iowa’s public universities for years have requested legislative funding increases — promising to commit the extra tens of millions they sought to student aid, mental health, and more recently hybrid learning in an age of COVID-19 — but the asks have fallen flat.

Nearly one year after University of Iowa College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen announced plans to leave following an uproar over his handling of free speech issues, the campus has named University of Illinois Chicago dentistry dean Clark Stanford as his permanent replacement.

The University of Iowa has until June 30, 2023 to complete a federally-funded $9.2 million expansion of its State Hygienic Lab, which has served Iowa’s public health needs for more than a century and processed about 1.6 million COVID specimens over the last nearly two years.

A lot of men who end up in University of Iowa urologist Amy Pearlman’s office are in their 30s, 40s, or 50s and are having symptoms. They’re fatigued. They can’t get or hold an erection. They have pain. Or a lump. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Iowa native Joe Clarke’s latest Backrow Studios film, “Alta Vista,” with Eastern Iowa ties, moves from the indie festival circuit to online availability.

Christine Grant, a trailblazing athletics administrator at the University of Iowa, died Friday at age 85

James Huerta, 17 years after immigrating to Iowa from Mexico, just graduated from the University of Iowa, the first in his family to earn high school and college degrees. After Christmas, he'll report to Fort Rucker for flight school, part of his plan to eventually fly Black Hawk helicopters for the Army.

A new high-powered NASA-led infrared telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court is set to launch Christmas Day, with expectations of revolutionizing astrophysics by expanding the science around how galaxies formed and enabling a glimpse back in time to billions and billions of years ago.

Continuing his rapid climb among the University of Iowa Department of Public Safety ranks, administrators following a national search have chosen co-interim director Mark Bullock to retain on a permanent basis the title of assistant vice president and director of public safety.

A trio of University of Iowa fraternities — including one the campus suspended last summer — are in trouble again, first for continuing to host impermissible and illegal tailgates on a pair of Melrose Court properties they spent $30,000 to lease, and then for misleading and evading UI investigators.

The University of Iowa, Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa students will hold in-person graduation ceremonies this weekend.