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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
Higher Ed Dec. 9, 2017 7:19 pm2855d ago
Changes from Washington are coming to Iowa’s higher education institutions and those they serve, and campuses are bracing for – …
Higher Ed Dec. 8, 2017 11:27 am2856d ago
IOWA CITY – Dominating the vista from walls of windows in a Kinnick Stadium press box, an illuminated University of …
Higher Ed Dec. 6, 2017 5:37 pm2858d ago
A request from the University of Northern Iowa to pay $2.4 million for a privately owned bookstore that has been …
News Dec. 6, 2017 6:15 pm2858d ago
The University of Iowa will name a new home for its renowned, nearly 50-year-old art museum for Dick and Mary …
Higher Ed Dec. 5, 2017 6:16 pm2859d ago
IOWA CITY – After spending more than $140,000 on a consultant and 18 months of searching, the University of Iowa …
Government & Politics Dec. 4, 2017 6:29 pm2860d ago
The University of Northern Iowa is the only one of Iowa’s three regent schools that doesn’t own a bookstore – …
News Jun. 3, 2022 1:33 pm1218d ago
IOWA CITY – One plastic grocery sack of peanut butter, canned mandarin oranges, apple juice and even carrot juice makes …
Higher Ed Dec. 1, 2017 5:11 pm2863d ago
The Iowa State University vice president who has been leading ‘perhaps the largest IT initiative” in school history but came …
Higher Ed Nov. 30, 2017 8:11 pm2864d ago
IOWA CITY – One sorority and one fraternity out of 26 eligible University of Iowa Greek chapters have asked to …
News Nov. 30, 2017 8:47 pm2864d ago
IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa, in response to deep cuts in state aid, is dropping a popular summer-school …
Higher Ed Nov. 29, 2017 7:27 pm2865d ago
IOWA CITY – Higher education-related provisions in the House version of a federal tax reform bill have incited student protests …
Higher Ed Nov. 28, 2017 5:14 pm2866d ago
In scouring the country for its next Iowa State University president – who ended up being on the very campus …
Higher Ed Nov. 28, 2017 3:51 pm2866d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday assured Iowa’s public universities that the state still wants to partner with them in preparing …
News Nov. 27, 2017 2:14 pm2867d ago
Iowa State University has landed $1.1 million in federal support to continue a program to help first-generation and underrepresented students …
Higher Ed Nov. 25, 2017 3:26 pm2869d ago
IOWA CITY – Seven months after the death of a popular University of Iowa freshman at a fraternity formal led …