Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

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University of Iowa Health Care’s SAINT® therapy only takes 10 minutes, and within a month, more than 80 percent had remission of symptoms.

University of Iowa Health Care is looking to expand and further cement its “commitment to serving Cedar Rapids” by capitalizing on the retirement of a private practitioner and buying his 37,850-square-foot medical office building.

Iowa State University Athletics — facing a $147 million budget deficit through 2031, or just under $25 million annually over the next six years — is rolling out painful concessions, including indefinitely postponing construction of a new wrestling practice facility and $25 million renovation of Hilton Coliseum.

Looking to “unify, amplify, and expand” its internationally-acclaimed writing programs, the University of Iowa on Thursday unveiled plans for a new Office of Writing and Communication.

Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.

Photos from the TRACERS mission launch watch party at Van Allen Hall on the University of Iowa campus on Wednesday.

Wrapping two decades of service shepherding billions of dollars of philanthropy to the University of Iowa and its auxiliary enterprises like Athletics and UI Health Care, UI Center for Advancement President and CEO Lynette Marshall on Wednesday announced plans to retire in summer 2026.

The launch of twin NASA satellites built by University of Iowa researchers was called off Tuesday, and will be attempted again on Wednesday.

With the governor’s signature now on a bill requiring the University of Iowa to create a new Center for Intellectual Freedom, the Board of Regents has proposed to serve as its interim executive director the conservative UI professor who advocated for the center’s creation during the Legislative session.

Having heard from dozens of faculty, staff, students and members of the public — not only in Iowa but across the country — Iowa’s Board of Regents is further postponing its vote on a proposed policy to ban “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “critical race theory” requirements for majors, minors, and certificates.

Six years after the University of Iowa landed $115 million from NASA to research how solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field -- marking the largest external funding award in campus history -- the twin satellites that UI researchers have been building for the mission are set to launch Tuesday.

A new Gallup poll out Wednesday circling back to the question of Americans’ confidence in higher education shows a measurable rebound over the last 12 months — with the percent who reported “quite a lot” or a “great deal” of confidence swelling to 42 percent from last year’s 36 percent, the lowest on Gallup record.

The Department of Homeland Security should have raised its arguments sooner, according to a federal judge who in May granted a preliminary injunction the government now is fighting that prevents it from terminating the immigration status of four University of Iowa international students.

In an evolving federal funding landscape under a new administration with shifting priorities, Iowa’s top research universities on Thursday announced drops in research funding for the budget year that ended June 30.