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Vanessa Miller
I’ve covered lots of beats over my decades as a reporter, and one reason I really enjoy higher education is because it touches on them all. One day I’m writing about science and interviewing University of Iowa NASA researchers, the next I’m writing about health care, or agriculture, or a new Iowa State-supported business, or athletic budgets, or criminal justice, or the Legislature and potential bills affecting Iowa’s university and college campuses. I also love that I get to investigate and dig deep on some stories, report hard news, and then also share incredible and sometimes harrowing tales of survival or discovery. When I’m not working, I’m playing with my kids or following them around to wrestling tournaments. Get the news delivered right to your inbox.
Latest Articles by Vanessa Miller
Education Jun. 19, 2020 4:50 pm1931d ago
IOWA CITY – Campus leaders across Iowa’s public universities have said, essentially, they can’t afford not to bring student back …
Education Jun. 17, 2020 5:56 pm1933d ago
IOWA CITY – Although the University of Iowa is planning to follow its current academic calendar – ending the fall …
Education Jun. 17, 2020 6:44 pm1933d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – the largest on campus – has …
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 16, 2020 7:48 pm1934d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital again has been cited for elite status among the …
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 15, 2020 4:22 pm1935d ago
IOWA CITY – University of Iowa Health Care now has the in-house ability to test for COVID-19 antibodies as a …
Education Jun. 15, 2020 7:55 pm1935d ago
IOWA CITY – Compounding the unprecedented financial woes Iowa’s public universities are facing in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, …
Education Jun. 12, 2020 4:24 pm1938d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa will not follow the lead of its fellow regent schools by moving up …
Education Jun. 12, 2020 9:06 pm1938d ago
At a time of national reckoning over U.S. treatment of its black citizens, Iowa State University is joining the institutions …
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 12, 2020 6:46 pm1938d ago
IOWA CITY – Leaders of the union representing thousands of nurses and staffers at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics …
Education Jun. 11, 2020 5:43 pm1939d ago
Kirkwood Community College this week joined the chorus of campuses unveiling some semblance of plans for the upcoming fall semester …
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 11, 2020 4:06 pm1939d ago
IOWA CITY – Supplies of donated blood are dwindling nationally in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic that’s kept millions …
Education Jun. 10, 2020 6:09 pm1940d ago
Holding classes on Labor Day. Starting winter break at Thanksgiving. Requiring face masks. Reconfiguring classrooms. Erecting Plexiglas partitions. Isolating students …
Education Jun. 9, 2020 5:18 pm1941d ago
Like Iowa’s public universities – which are spending the summer planning a return to on-campus instruction and experiences come fall …
Health Care and Medicine Jun. 9, 2020 2:37 pm1941d ago
IOWA CITY – Beginning Thursday, all patients admitted to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will be tested for …
Crime & Courts Jun. 9, 2020 3:41 pm1941d ago
IOWA CITY – The leader of Iowa City’s recent Black Lives Matter protests, who Iowa City police arrested Sunday evening …