Vanessa Miller

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the bankruptcy case of Iowa City’s only community hospital winding down – and tens of millions in liquidated assets already distributed to bondholders – attorneys, consultants, and other professionals still are fighting for their cut, with fee applications topping $13 million.

Both of Iowa’s public research universities slipped in this year’s national U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, with the University of Iowa sliding five spots to No. 98 and Iowa State University dropping six to No. 121.

Although more “post-mortem” is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and widespread confusion that plagued the government’s botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors across Iowa’s public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants, and their returning students.

Just under a year from the July 1, 2025, deadline for Iowa’s public universities to comply with a new state law restricting their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and staffing, Board of Regents President Sherry Bates on Thursday promised the campuses will be fully compliant early — by Dec. 31.

Adding to nearly $1 billion in construction University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing across its main Iowa City campus and new North Liberty site, system officials Wednesday aired preliminary plans to spend more than $25 million upgrading its new downtown campus to meet UIHC standards.

After Iowa’s public universities in the spring promised to pursue a DEI-related directive from regents and lawmakers to explore establishing new “free speech and civic education” initiatives on their campuses, the University of Northern Iowa is forging ahead with a proposed Center for Civic Education.

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor orbiting the planet actually is much closer than the moon you can see.