Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

With Iowa eager to put COVID in the rear view mirror, Board of Regents President Mike Richards in May lifted the state of emergency he imposed in March 2020 and mandated Iowa’s public universities return to pre-pandemic operations.

Like other award recipients from the upended 2020-21 term, Dizdarevic said she’s glad to get any experience at all through an esteemed Fulbright program – the world’s largest international exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2021.

Col. Craig Andrle, commander of the 388th Fighter Wing based at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, will lead a four-ship flyover of F-35A Lightning II’s before Saturday’s Iowa vs. Minnesota football game.

Protests that enveloped the University of Iowa’s Phi Gamma Delta fraternity this fall caused more than $200,000 in damage to the chapter house and displaced 28 members for the semester.

Although the retreat from daylight saving time might have worn off by Nov. 19, anyone still riding that extra hour into predawn wakefulness might get to see this month’s beaver moon turn “blood” red when North American gets a front-row seat for the century’s longest lunar eclipse.

The University of Iowa-based State Hygienic Laboratory – which for the last nearly two years has been on the front lines of Iowa’s COVID response – hasn’t been consistently charging customers or collecting documentation, leaving on the table as much as $1.1 million, according to a recent audit.

A national nonprofit civil-liberties group is calling on the University of Iowa College of Law to remove or revise a new question it added to faculty evaluation forms asking how the professors have improved their law school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — calling those terms “broad,” “subjective,” and “political.”

Beth Livingston, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, is one of a team of investigators that’s among the first to look at how artificial intelligence could affect the future of clerical work.

A 41-year-old former immigration attorney facing numerous theft charges in Colorado is being held in the Johnson County Jail in Iowa City, accused of fabricating a positive COVID test from the University of Iowa in an attempt to avoid a mandatory in-person court appearance in Boulder.

In a fall semester already plagued by fraternity-related controversy, the University of Iowa has placed on interim suspension three more Greek chapters accused of alcohol violations — among other things.

COVID-19 altered how faculty members across Iowa’s public universities spent their work days in the last academic year – draining hours spent in a classroom and decreasing time on research and scholarship while spiking virtual instruction and online grading and preparation.

Rather than speculate about who the GOP nominee for president will be, Pence told WHO Radio that conservatives need to spend their energy to win control of Congress first, “and we’ll let the future take care of itself.”

A 22-year-old Cedar Rapids man is facing felony robbery and trafficking of stolen weapons charges after Iowa City police say he robbed someone at a Kum & Go near the University of Iowa campus in the early morning hours of Oct. 3.

The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.

Twenty years after a fire destroyed the dome of the University of Iowa’s Old Capitol, the UI now is preparing to redo “failing” gilding on the dome at an estimated cost of $480,000.