Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox meet where W.P. Kinsella’s novel is immortalized on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021 at 6:15 p.m.

UI Housing and Dining is preparing for a more normal year, but with some pandemic protocols still in place.

UNI on Monday unveiled a new articulation agreement with the entire Illinois Community College System — a 48-college collective serving nearly 700,000 students annually — that commits to recognize Illinois transfers with associate of arts degrees as having met UNI’s general education requirements.

While maintaining its standing as the top-ranked hospital in Iowa, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has lost ground nationally in its ranked specialties, according to new U.S. News & World Report “best hospitals” list.

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.