Vanessa Miller

For one-third of Kirkwood Community College’s 58-year existence, James Mollenhauer has served on the campus’ Board of Trustees, including as chair for the last seven years. But after 20 years of service, Mollenhauer – at age 85 – officially will retire Oct. 10.

In the 40 years since the UI formed an autonomous Department of Theatre Arts in 1984 — about 10 years after it founded the Iowa Playwrights Workshop — the iconic writing campus never has had an alumni win a Tony Award. But that could change Sunday.

Despite graduate student calls for a tuition freeze and eliminiation of fees -- alongside undergraduate testimony about mounting financial pressure on Iowa’s public university students -- Iowa’s Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved across-the-board rate hikes for upcoming academic year.

Both University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson and Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen will get a $60,000 pay raise in the new budget year starting July 1, following performance evaluations this week with their governing Board of Regents.

University of Iowa Health Care – undertaking more than $1 billion in new, expanded, or upgraded facility projects – wants to increase patient rates 6 percent in the upcoming budget year beginning July 1 to keep up with health care inflation, among other things.

A state lawmaker is demanding the University of Iowa immediately audit its animal testing programs and pursue alternative research methods based on a watchdog group’s findings that UI researchers experimented on donated “pet dogs” who then were “euthanized and dissected, despite the available treatments.”

An Associated Press photographer captured a moment between two Iowa natives — 103-year-old Fred Taylor, who commanded a P51 Mustang during World War II, and 19-year-old Sawyer Slezak, a 2023 Prairie High School graduate and cadet third class at the U.S. Air Force Academy — when the two of them were in France last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

The instructors — including a brother of Rep. Adam Zabner, D-Iowa City — were with a faculty member of the partner institution when the attack occurred, according to Cornell, which has been in contact with the instructors and is helping them.

Following years of planning, fundraising challenges, negotiations, discord, and compromise, Iowa State University is seeking Board of Regents approval to enter into a “creative” agreement with the City of Ames to help finance a new $200 million CyTown development and maintain four ISU buildings central to its arts and entertainment core.

School’s out for summer for many of Iowa’s college and university students, but that doesn’t mean work has stopped across the sprawling campuses — where hard hats have replaced commencement caps and skid loaders have taken the place of scooters.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday afternoon confirmed a Chapter 11 plan of liquidation for the former Mercy Iowa City hospital, despite push back from its former managing partner MercyOne — which now, under the plan, remains exposed to future lawsuits.

Years after first initiating a plan to expand its maternity services — which delivered nearly 3,000 babies in 2023 — University of Iowa Health Care next week will seek Board of Regents permission to pursue a $74 million, 30,000-square-foot renovation for expanded labor, delivery, and postpartum patient care.

The criminal trial of a former University of Iowa student and fraternity brother arrested in connection with an alleged 2020 sexual assault, which was supposed to start this week, has been postponed pending a related civil trial.

The University of Iowa is eyeing an expansion and renovation of its Tippie College of Business — with the project to expand and modernize both the Pappajohn Business Building and nearby Gilmore Hall expected to cost $45 to $60 million.

To settle a lawsuit scheduled for trial in May, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of one of two Iowa State University students who died three years ago on Little Wall Lake during a crew club accident.