Vanessa Miller

The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.

Hawkeye Athletics hasn’t made much of a dent in paying back the $50 million it borrowed from the main University of Iowa campus during the height of COVID, leaving $47.6 million outstanding on the 2021 loan – even as contributions from the Big Ten Athletics Conference have continued to climb.

“We never had health concerns for her. And then you get that information that she has cancer. And life will never be the same. And you wake up every day thinking that was a nightmare.”

“I was trying not to cry. Her dad was trying not to freak out,” mom Ashley Huebner said. “I’m like, I can’t let her see that I’m upset. So they took the bed out of the room, I walked with her down the hall, and the next thing I know the doors were there. And then they took her.”

Just months ahead of opening its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is ramping up hiring for the 469,000-square-foot campus — promoting “innovative opportunities” across a range of disciplines in the new state-of-the-art facility.

In addition to its Alpha Delta Phi fraternity — suspended last week after police found 56 blindfolded pledges in a basement with food thrown on them — the University of Iowa is or has investigated three other Greek chapters this fall.

After losings its vice president for research to Brown University earlier this year, the University of Iowa has named a successor in UI alumnus David C. Schwebel, who’s served as associate vice president for research facilities and infrastructure at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2021.

The 21-year-old Riverdale man arrested early Friday as University of Iowa police investigated what appeared to be hazing in a fraternity basement repeatedly stood between officers and witnesses, telling police at one point, “You can (expletive) leave.”

Last year, a majority of Iowa’s private colleges and universities created an “Iowa Private Transfer Collaborative,” which this fall signed an “Iowa Private Transfer Guarantee” admission agreement with Iowa’s 15 community colleges aimed at simplifying and streamlining the community-to-private college transfer pipeline.

The University of Iowa on Friday placed a chapter on interim suspension after law enforcement discovered “several dozen pledges blindfolded in the basement.”

Seven years later -- after securing a record-setting $115 million grant to pursue the project, navigating delays through COVID, and losing its leader in professor Kletzing’s unexpected passing -- the groundbreaking $165.7 million mission is nearing launch.

“University teachers shall be entitled to academic freedom in the classroom in discussing the teachers’ course subject, but shall not introduce into the teaching controversial matters that have no relation to the subject.”

The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a $97.4 million verdict against an OBGYN clinic in Coralville — undoing what was believed to be the largest medical malpractice judgment for a birth trauma in state history — and ordered a new trial.

Six days after Donald Trump achieved a historic victory that will return him to the White House next year, controversial conservative commentator Michael Knowles on Monday will speak at the University of Iowa — inciting push back from some on campus in the form of vandalism and planned protests.

The chair of the Iowa House Education Appropriations Committee on Thursday afternoon called on University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson to terminate a UI Health Care fellow for a comment he posted on X following the presidential election.