Vanessa Miller

Maintaining its lease of the historic Macbride Nature Recreation Area that for decades has hosted thousands of researchers, naturalists, and students will cost the University of Iowa an immediate $14.8 million in repairs and upgrades — plus nearly $1 million annually to maintain — according to a new report on UI use of the land.

Addressing a proposal to up tuition and fees for resident undergraduate students nearly 3 percent across Iowa’s public universities, student representatives on Monday asked the board to halt, pause, or at least strongly consider the impact of the rising cost.

Before regents on Monday authorized their executive director to hire a firm, form a committee, and develop a timeline for the upcoming search to replace outgoing Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen, one lawmaker reminded them of a new law governing the selection process.

With a breadth of employment and academic experience spanning the globe and several decades, Raj Agnihotri is uniquely-positioned to educate aspiring business leaders, inspire innovation, and advance collaboration in an increasingly international marketplace – all from inside what has become his Iowa State University home.

Iowa’s three public universities will see no increase in general education appropriations from the state in the upcoming budget year — and targeted bumps in special purpose funds — despite the governor’s recommended 2-percent increase.

With an estimated 11,870 students across Iowa’s public universities expected to receive degrees during in-person and livestreamed commencement ceremonies this weekend, the regent system is reporting rising graduation rates.

Eight years after Wendy Wintersteen became Iowa State University’s first female president in 2017, the esteemed entomologist on Friday announced plans to retire in early 2026.

A federal judge has made more permanent an initial temporary restraining order she issued last month blocking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from terminating the status of four University of Iowa international students by granting a preliminary injunction through the summation of their case.

On her morning walk with husband John Lammers and their dog Ollie recently, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson went to pick up some litter only to discover it was something more.

The oft-cited Cancer in Iowa report that for several years has found the state to have the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of new cancers in the nation next year will start breaking out pediatric numbers.

In a crowded Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Cedar Rapids on Tuesday evening, “Mayor” Pete Buttigieg told more than 1,600 people that America is facing its “most profound test in generations.”

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will be in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday afternoon for a town hall focused on veterans and military families and “the recent wave of policy decisions that have negatively impacted Americans.”

Just over a year after establishing its first chapter at the University of Iowa, the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity has been suspended from campus for at least four academic years following a November hazing incident involving 57 shirtless men in a basement storage room, many of whom had food splattered on them.

Recently-reappointed member of Iowa’s Board of Regents David Barker has been nominated to serve as U.S. assistant secretary of post secondary education following the resignation of Nasser H. Paydar, appointed in 2022 by then-President Joe Biden.

A day after a federal judge told an attorney representing four University of Iowa international students to identify themselves or drop a complaint against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the attorney filed a document with the court swapping the John Doe #1-4 labels with the real names of the men she’s representing.