Vanessa Miller

Imperative to the nationally-ranked pediatric cancer care at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital are its people, and the 28-year-old student-led UI Dance Marathon on Monday made another monumental move to support them with a $1.5 million donation.

Three years after two University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics nurses and one UIHC physical therapist filed a lawsuit accusing their employer of violating federal and state code in how and when they paid employees, the Board of Regents has agreed to settle the class-action case for $15 million.

Colleges, universities, and trade schools are ramping up nurse-related partnerships, scholarships, internships, and mentorships in hopes of meeting the workforce’s increasingly dire needs.

Some staff nurses overwhelmed by ballooning patient loads and more charts and medications to juggle are relieved to have the extra hands traveling nurses provide. Others harbor contempt for the higher wages travelers make – costing their hospitals millions – even as temporary nurses are less familiar with the facilities, processes, and patients.

All eyes are on Iowa, legendary Hawkeye wrestling coach Dan Gable said Friday during the closing keynote portion of The Gazette’s sixth annual Iowa Ideas conference.

The University of Iowa did extend an offer to one of its finalists after receiving “robust feedback from campus stakeholders regarding the candidates,” but that person declined the offer.

Like the number and percent of American high school graduates taking the ACT – as more colleges and universities make standardized test scores optional in their admission process – the national average ACT composite score is dropping, reaching its lowest point in more than 30 years.

A year after a judge let Hawkeye head football coach Kirk Ferentz and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz postpone until after the season their sworn depositions in a discrimination lawsuit from former players, the coaches still haven’t sat for them and are still seeking to delay them.

Over the next three years, ISU researchers will use the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant to tap and build on efforts of a Walk with Ease program — developed by the Arthritis Foundation to curtail symptoms and improve overall health by incorporating activity into everyday life.

Kirkwood Community College officials on Friday notified the campus they’re postponing an active shooter drill previously planned for Election Day, Nov. 8 – a delay that came after some faculty and staff voiced concern about the drill’s timing and potential to disrupt voting.

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The state has agreed to pay a North Liberty couple nearly $4 million after their toddler son died in 2018 from an undiagnosed strep infection following days of visits to University of Iowa-affiliated clinics and facilities.

The University of Iowa Athletics Department “appears to be in compliance with Title IX’s equitable treatment provisions,” according to the first annual report produced by a compliance monitor the university was required to obtain last year as part of a settled Title IX lawsuit.

With just weeks of work left to do before the David and Janice McInally Center for Health & Society officially begins educating any students who are pursuing pre-health paths or who have health care-related interests, Coe on Thursday celebrated the $2.8 million project with a dedication.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is amending requirements that administrators say would give students more flexibility, but that opponents worry could mean “radical changes.”