Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

The project is a partnership between the city of Waterloo and the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, a program of the UI Office of Outreach and Engagement.

“What we see is the medalist who is the most happy is the gold medalist — because they just won the event. But then the next medalist that’s expressing the most happiness is the bronze medalist,” a University of Iowa researcher says.

Stepping into the University of Iowa presidency as her campus emerges from an historically tumultuous year that stressed the budget and prompted her predecessor to trim programs, eliminate sports, and

A new study out of the University of Iowa has found that use of remdesivir, used to treat COVID-19, had no impact on patient’s survival rates. However, the lead researcher says data shows patients who received remdesivir were more likely to stay in the hospital for a longer period of time than those who did not receive the antiviral drug.

With the full 2021 budget year now wrapped, University of Iowa Athletics has confirmed no contracted football coaches – including head coach Kirk Ferentz – participated in voluntary salary reductions announced a year ago in light of COVID-19 losses the department projected to be devastating and justifying of its decision to eliminate several Hawkeye sports and take a $50 million loan from the main campus.

After nearly four years fighting certain religious student organizations on its campus over who can and can’t be leaders, the University of Iowa on Friday lost again in federal court – with a panel of U.S. appellate judges blasting the institution for viewpoint discrimination.

When interviewing, Caroline Stefanie Clay was told, “Should you get the position, you would be the first African American female — women of color — to have a full-time tenure track position within the 70-year history of the department.”

Overnight Wednesday, the University of Iowa updated its Office of the President website to reflect its new leadership — presenting Barbara Wilson as its 22nd president. On Thursday, she officially took the helm, promising to usher in a “new era of excellence” for the Hawkeyes.

In partnership with the University of Georgia, a UI team recently published promising findings showing a single-dose inhaled COVID-19 vaccine fully protected mice against lethal infection and also blocked animal-to-animal transmission.

Both University of Iowa and Iowa State University this week reported new external funding records for the budget year that wrapped June 30.

Just weeks before starting her tenure as 22nd University of Iowa president, Barbara Wilson recently signed a formal employment contract and deferred compensation plan that includes some notable differences from those of her predecessor Bruce Harreld.

No stranger to the stage, Miss Iowa 2021, Grace Keller, joined Washington Public Library on Tuesday for a story time …

Six-million-dollar grant will enable the launch of a new UI Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, or Hawk-IDDRC.

Chad Ingels, a northeast Iowa farmer and Republican state representative, said he was angered by a March 26 opinion piece on the Civil Eats website written by Chris Jones, an IIHR research engineer, about race and water quality.

Since putting into an endowment $985.9 million of the $1.165 billion it received in an upfront payment as part of a 50-year deal to let a private collaborative operate its utilities system, the University of Iowa’s P3 investment fund has increased $139.9 million, officials told The Gazette.