Vanessa Miller

The university has agreed to merge its 51-year-old Rape Victim Advocacy Program with the Iowa City-based Domestic Violence Intervention Program, which started after the UI’s Women’s Resource and Action Center in 1977 landed a grant to explore the issue of domestic violence in the community.

People across the U.S. — including more than 500 Taft Middle School students in Cedar Rapids and thousands on the Pentacrest in Iowa City — watched as the moon passed between the Earth and the sun for a solar eclipse Monday afternoon.

Although Caitlin Clark, Gabbie Marshall, Kate Martin, Molly Davis, and Sharon Goodman have played their final game in Hawkeye Carver Arena — as graduating seniors on the Hawkeye Women’s Basketball team — fans will have another chance to pack the seats and celebrate them and their historic 2024 run Wednesday.

“For over four hours, they were just completely fighting about me,” Jasmyn Jordan said. “Calling me a white supremacist, a Nazi, a bigot, a token, all that kind of stuff, which was really weird to me. Because, first off, I hadn't even gotten the chance to state my position, state what I believe.”

Hoping to address UI employment demands alongside academic needs for its students-in-training, UIHC recently partnered with the College of Nursing for what could serve as a “win-win-win.” By hiring students for a new “unit partner” position, the university aims to give them “invaluable experience while also supporting the workload of hospital staff and enhancing patient care.”

University of Iowa police on Thursday morning received a report of a male making threats with a knife on campus, according to a Hawk Alert distributed to students, faculty, and staff.

The proclamation came at the start of the University of Iowa’s annual Hawkeye Caucus Day at the Capitol in Des Moines – where students, staff, and faculty convened in the rotunda to show off to elected officials and visitors the research, outreach, impact, honors and awards they’ve achieved.

Although Theresa Sault-Brill sought $95,000 from the university to remedy what she characterized as “significant lost wages” and “emotional distress,” she signed a $20,000 settlement March 28 and agreed not to pursue or accept any future UI employment.

Facing concerns and objections from pensioners and other entities owed millions in “unsecured” claims, a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City – by means of attorneys burning through thousands by the hour – have negotiated a proposal for how to distribute the hospital’s limited resources.

COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.

“This university head came in and told us that Lia being on the team was non-negotiable. They also told us that if we ever spoke out about it, we would regret it, and we would spend the rest of our lives wishing that we hadn’t.”

Having already admitted students for the next academic year, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital about a month ago surprised current and incoming students by announcing plans to close its 73-year-old Medical Laboratory Scientist program.

Before COVID curbed enrollment in 2020 — hitting the University of Northern Iowa especially hard with a nearly 10 percent drop in total students and 20 percent drop in its graduate and professional count — the last time UNI reported a grad school cohort under 1,300 was 1993.

Iowa State University has agreed to settle and part ways with an employee just two weeks after hiring him to work as a manager in its University Library. The employee told The Gazette he doesn’t blame anyone, says it was a “miscommunication.”

Three months after hiring a leader for its complex integration with Mercy Iowa City, University of Iowa Health Care this week announced she has accepted another job and will be leaving in May -- compelling UIHC to initiate a search for a permanent chief administrator of its new downtown campus.