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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
Campaigns & Elections Oct. 31, 2024 12:30 pm335d ago
Two terms after starting her tenure in the Iowa Senate -- and two years after her constituency shifted southeast to include Washington, Kalona, and parts of Johnson County -- Republican Dawn Driscoll this November is looking to hang on to her seat representing District 46.
Higher Ed Oct. 21, 2024 7:39 am345d ago
Since 2022, UI Health Care has scrapped those inpatient-tower-expansion plans amid significant change – including across its leadership team and its facilities footprint.
Health Care and Medicine Oct. 18, 2024 8:11 am348d ago
More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.
Higher Ed Oct. 17, 2024 7:47 am349d ago
Fulfilling a legal-settlement obligation to pay an outside Title IX compliance officer to monitor gender equity within its athletics department, the University of Iowa this month produced its third and final report finding “no material issues with respect to UI’s compliance with Title IX.”
Higher Ed Oct. 17, 2024 7:53 am349d ago
University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday announced it is expanding its air transport partnership with Air Methods -- a private medical helicopter company that recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Higher Ed Oct. 12, 2024 5:30 am354d ago
Internal and external forces affecting higher education — from disruptions like COVID to evolving workforce demands, student needs, demographics, and public perceptions — are evident in recent enrollment counts, which are down again this fall for many of Iowa’s private colleges and universities.
Higher Ed Oct. 10, 2024 7:42 am356d ago
The Iowa Supreme Court this week mulled a question at the heart of an Iowa State University professor’s lawsuit alleging decades of wage discrimination: how to interpret the law in a way that motivates fair compensation.
Higher Ed Oct. 9, 2024 9:39 am357d ago
University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.
Health Care and Medicine Oct. 8, 2024 7:52 am358d ago
University of Iowa Health Care is seeking Board of Regents approval to buy a 43-year-old community-based cancer-care business with 22 locations statewide for a proposed purchase price of $280 million.
Higher Ed Oct. 7, 2024 8:45 am359d ago
As University of Iowa International Writing Program director for more than two decades and an accomplished writer himself — having published, among other things, seven collections of poetry and six books of non-fiction — Merrill got to know Yakimchuk, who recently had read her poem “Prayer” during John Legend’s performance of “Free” at the 2022 Grammys, backdropped by images of Russia’s occupation of her homeland.
Higher Ed Oct. 4, 2024 7:39 am362d ago
Although Cornell College raised its tuition this year to $51,970, none of its students pay the full sticker price – and Cornell is making its generous financial aid practices more clear through a new “Tuition Zero” initiative.
Higher Ed Oct. 1, 2024 4:40 pm364d ago
A former University of Iowa student who three years ago filed a lawsuit against the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, its UI chapter, and two former fraternity brothers she accused of sexually assaulting her, filming it, and sharing the images via social media has dropped her case against the fraternity and one of the brothers she sued.
Higher Ed Sep. 30, 2024 7:18 am366d ago
The last thing Wiese remembered was being on the phone inside B&B Automotive -- the Riverside auto repair shop where he worked -- and hanging up so he could get back to it. He remembered looking at the shop door and his boss, who was working on a car with its driver-side headlight out. And then nothing.
Higher Ed Sep. 30, 2024 7:24 am366d ago
As technology has made the world seem smaller, college campuses have gotten bigger — expanding not just in place but over oceans, mountain ranges and glaciers under the northern lights of Iceland through university-sponsored study abroad programs that have reignited since the pandemic has waned.
Higher Ed Sep. 27, 2024 9:28 pm368d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds this week tapped another longtime Republican, supporter, and collaborator to serve on Iowa’s nine-member Board of Regents — charged with governing the state’s three public universities, including the sprawling University of Iowa Health Care system, and their combined $7.8 billion budget.