Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

At age 41, Melissa Febos today is an accomplished author, associate professor of English, and member of the esteemed master of fine arts faculty with the acclaimed UI non-fiction writing program.

From a young age, inquiry drove Don Gurnett to discovery. He’s recounted for The Gazette memories walking the UI campus as a teenage freshman with his eyes heavenward in awe of Sputnik, the novel Russian satellite fueling the international space race.

The riverbank celebration that was postponed in 2020 and rescheduled for August 2022 will now be canceled altogether. The event was meant to celebrate the Iowa River and mark the 100th anniversary of the University of Iowa’s world-renowned IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering program.

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.