Vanessa Miller

Of nearly 400 companies or individuals with “nonpriority unsecured claims” against Mercy Iowa City – meaning the hospital owes them money but will pay them back last, if at all, in its bankruptcy restructuring – more than a dozen are litigants who sued and won settlements, awards, or judgments.

Although Mercy Iowa City two weeks ago told participants of its 55-year-old pension plan – via mailed letter – that they will, for now, “continue to receive your monthly pension checks,” hospital leadership Thursday announced the temporary but immediate suspension of three other benefit programs.

Two and a half years after Iowa State University began a review of its naming of Catt Hall after controversial women’s suffrage-leader Carrie Chapman Catt, a 17-member review committee last week cast an initial — but not unanimous — vote to keep the name on the central campus academic building.

Mirroring the energy-drink tide swelling across the country of late, a University of Iowa health assessment this year indicated undergraduate and graduate consumption of the caffeine-boosted beverages is surging — even past national averages, which also are on the rise.

Although Mercy Iowa City wants an expeditious sale of its assets – after the 150-year-old hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month – its bondholders and creditors this week asked a judge to tap the brakes to give them time for due diligence and to maximize the “value of the sale.”

Iowa State University’s campus cooling system was back up and running Friday morning after a Thursday fire at the campus power plant knocked out its cooling system — canceling classes, closing buildings, and sending many students packing just days into the start of the fall semester.

Having gone years without a property-value assessment – given its tax-exempt status as state owned – the University of Iowa’s for-sale Mayflower Residence Hall over the summer received an updated evaluation that, on a preliminary basis, valued it at $30.7 million.

A fire at Iowa State University’s power plant has disrupted the cooling system on campus, prompting the school to move classes online and encourage students living on campus to go home for the weekend.

Iowa’s public universities are back in session, with students kicking off the fall semester this week under sweltering heat — making the start especially uncomfortable for some of the tens of thousands who moved into residence hall rooms without air conditioning.

This year, UNI students and supporters across the Cedar Valley and state will be sporting the first “TC’s Tee,” a new annual T-shirt tradition the campus hopes will raise camaraderie, Panther pride, and money for UNI’s general scholarship fund, housed within the UNI Foundation.

Although Mercy Iowa City has signed a letter of intent to sell most of its assets to the University of Iowa for $20 million, a review of assessment records show the 150-year-old community hospital’s 19 properties – all of which are intended for UI – are valued at more than $137.3 million.

Bugeja’s concern about false information is one of many AI-related worries facing instructors and professors as students return to campus this fall. Others include plagiarism, misrepresentation, and various forms of cheating and technology-aided shortcuts students might employ, depriving themselves of material learning and tricking instructors into thinking they produced or wrote content they didn’t.

Accusing Mercy Iowa City Hospital of misdirecting blame for its “prolonged, observed deterioration over the course of several years” that brought it to “being liquidated through a bankruptcy fire sale process for a mere $20 million,” bondholders have asked a judge to appoint an examiner to answer several of its key questions.

Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.

On the eve of Nanea Estrella’s scheduled flight back to Iowa from Maui on Wednesday, news of fire on her island began to spread. She was packing for her upcoming fall semester at the University of Iowa, where last year Estrella joined the inaugural Hawkeye women’s wrestling team under head coach and fellow Hawaii-native Clarissa Chun.