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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 Sep. 23, 2018 8:00 am2567d ago
Three years after then-Gov. Terry Branstad set the goal of getting 70 percent of working Iowans some form of …
Education Sep. 19, 2018 8:17 pm2571d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Wednesday – for the third time – was redesignated …
Business News Mar. 12, 2019 6:15 pm2397d ago
IOWA CITY — Responding to scrutiny over the University of Iowa’s handling of its Stead Family Children’s Hospital construction project …
Education Sep. 17, 2018 6:43 pm2573d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa has fired a lecturer who was not teaching this semester, though still earning …
Education Sep. 17, 2018 1:55 pm2573d ago
IOWA CITY – Art can transform lives, inform opinions, shock the system, or relax it. But not everyone has the …
Education Sep. 14, 2018 11:27 pm2575d ago
A local attorney representing two faith-based student groups suing the University of Iowa is leaving both cases and joining the …
Education Sep. 13, 2018 8:26 pm2577d ago
IOWA CITY – Sometimes in the form of chants and demands bellowed through bullhorns, pleas from worker-rights advocates to undo …
Education Sep. 13, 2018 4:55 pm2577d ago
IOWA CITY – When Iowa’s Board of Regents meets again in November, it will consider creating a new multiyear tuition …
Education Sep. 13, 2018 5:04 pm2577d ago
Without admitting wrongdoing, the University of Iowa’s search committee that helped hire current President Bruce Harreld in 2015 has agreed …
Education Sep. 13, 2018 9:03 am2577d ago
IOWA CITY – Iowa State University is scaling down the size and cost of its proposed new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory …
Education Sep. 12, 2018 9:24 pm2577d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa has and is paying contractors it hired to build a 14-story Stead Family …
Education Mar. 12, 2019 6:14 pm2397d ago
IOWA CITY – Just two weeks after the new University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital welcomed its first patients …
Crime & Courts Sep. 11, 2018 3:32 pm2579d ago
A University of Northern Iowa employee died Monday morning following a ‘major steam leak” in the Rialto Dining Facility. Kevin …
Education Sep. 10, 2018 8:02 pm2580d ago
When University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld presents at Board of Regents meetings, he talks about his institution’s U.S. News …
Education Sep. 9, 2018 8:30 am2581d ago
IOWA CITY – After icing plans for a new ‘Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation” this year amid funding cuts that prompted …