Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

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.

With COVID racing toward pandemic status in the spring of 2020, University of Iowa International Programs made the unprecedented decision to bring home its hundreds of study abroad students scattered around the globe — from Australia to Tanzania, Estonia to Iceland.

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The University of Iowa chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has responded to a lawsuit accusing it of aiding and abetting two brothers accused of sexually assaulting a student last year, renouncing any responsibility and blaming the accuser of unethical behavior.

With the 2020-21 flu vaccination rate among children 6 months to 17 years at 59 percent – a 5 percentage point drop from the year prior – Neiman said more can be done for many kids.

With a growing array of direct-to-consumer genetics companies enticing holiday shoppers to surprise loved ones with “the gift that brings families together,” University of Iowa experts are warning DNA tests sometimes can do the opposite — and buyers should beware of unintended consequences.

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Fifteen months after a University of Iowa student reported she was sexually assaulted by two fraternity brothers, who then shared video and pictures of the attack, Iowa City police have arrested one of the accused men, Carson Douglas Steffen, on a harassment charge.

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Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization the campus deregistered for barring an openly-gay member from becoming a leader, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.

Among a handful of key areas on which the University of Iowa is focused as its heads into a post-pandemic future facing challenges old and new is mental health and supporting student well-being, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson told a group of community members Thursday.

Since the Board of Regents three weeks ago directed its public universities to make COVID “vaccination verification and accommodation systems available to all campus employees on a voluntary basis,” 3,426 workers have confirmed they’re vaccinated.

A 56-year-old Iowa City man is facing misdemeanor assault charges after authorities and University of Iowa officials say he hit two campus employees “in the back of the head, with no justification” on Monday morning.