Shortly after U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Thursday called for the University of Iowa to name is new legislative-imposed Center for Intellectual Freedom after slain Republican-activist Charlie Kirk, Board of Regents President Sherry Bates issued a statement on Kirk’s shooting and the new civic centers on its campuses.
All three of Iowa’s public universities this fall are reporting larger freshman classes than last year — with both Iowa State and the University of Iowa boasting their second-largest first-year classes ever after peaking in 2016.
The indie rocker will play new material with The Attachment Theory and participate in a free, public interview with Nightbitch author Rachel Yoder.
The Board of Regents’ pared-down funding ask comes after lawmakers rejected its $30.3 million request last session and instead offered a $4 million bump, largely supporting legislative priorities and ignoring university appeals.
For weeks and months last fall, according to emails obtained by The Gazette through an open records request, University of Iowa administrators, staff, committee and community members discussed a range of Macbride Nature Recreation Area issues.
Eight years, three states, and two jobs after NASA’s 2017 launch of its Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, telescope toward the International Space Station, a UI graduate research assistant has won a NASA award to design and prototype a more compact, lightweight version of the NICER.
After years of construction on its main-campus emergency room -- spanning two stories, involving several departments, and expanding capacity across the high-demand space -- University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday debuted a new pediatric-specific emergency room within its larger now-finished new ER.
Hawkeye fan favorite Cooper DeJean — fresh off his Super Bowl win as a rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles — is taking the “breakfast of champions” concept to heart by directing sales from a new self-branded cereal to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
One week into the new academic year, the University of Iowa on Monday issued its first crime alert about a reported sexual assault on campus.
A former University of Iowa soccer player is suing UI Health Care, accusing its providers of negligence in the care she received for an ankle injury in 2021 that left her with a limp, chronic pain, and the need to wear special shoes.
As plans to replace the Burlington Street Bridge progress, the entities involved in the project are determining how to balance different community priorities for the main connection between the west side of Iowa City and downtown.
“Train Dreams,” a stunning cinematic adaptation of the national bestselling novella of the same name by Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Denis Johnson, is set to open FilmScene’s 4th annual Refocus Film Festival this fall.
In light of health care-related budget cuts at the federal level expected to strip $9.5 billion from the State of Iowa over the next decade, University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday announced changes to its many building plans — including its more than $2 billion inpatient tower.
On the eve of a Board of Regents vote to change its academic freedom and class content policies to satisfy legislative concerns about “indoctrination,” the national Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — or FIRE — reached out with a plea.
Given the stakes, the City of Dubuque months ago began collaborating with the IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering to create a 1:7.5-scale model of a pump station — aimed at tackling any engineering complications or complexities before construction, not after.
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