Vanessa Miller

When University of Iowa Health Care erects a new inpatient tower on its main Iowa City campus – recently revealed as part of its 10-year master plan – officials intend to name it in honor of the late Richard O. Jacobson, whose foundation recently committed $70 million to the project.

Before University of Iowa Health Care can forge ahead with the first of three massive projects officials recently revealed are part of their 10-year master plan for the main Iowa City campus, UI must build a new “West Campus Academic Building” along Melrose Avenue – near the College of Law.

The original project cost of $17.3 million has increased 53 percent to $26.5 million, according to documents provided to the Board of Regents, which next week will consider approving the project design, description, and budget.

A unique ISU collaboration with the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, which began in 2016, has facilitated seven trips abroad to date.

Five months after settling a Title IX lawsuit by agreeing to take several specific steps – including tapping an outside expert to annually ensure Title IX compliance, starting this academic year – University of Iowa Athletics hasn’t signed a contract with the monitor or detailed in writing the scope of his work.

Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on Monday unveiled a new formal partnership with Mercy Iowa City to collaborate on developing a medical park on 36 acres in North Liberty.

Nearly a year after the Board of Regents approved spending another $10 million to $15 million to replace dozens of damaged or at-risk windows in the University of Iowa’s $392.7 million Stead Family Children’s Hospital, work has yet to begin.

As the Board of Regents this week debuts new free speech training for students, faculty and staff at Iowa’s public universities, a Des Moines-area attorney is saying they have “a lot of work to do” after how University of Iowa faculty handled a student who expressed his views on “homosexual conduct.”

In line with a new state law and Board of Regents policy, Iowa’s public universities are rolling out a mandatory free speech training program Wednesday that all students, faculty and staff must complete by the end of the spring semester.

More than a year after 13 former Hawkeye football players filed a lawsuit accusing some University of Iowa athletics staff of racially motivated discrimination and harassment, attorneys are accusing UI of “persistent and intentional subversion” and delay tactics and asking a judge to intervene.

In 2016, the Iowa Waste Reduction Center surveyed 17 local Iowa brewers — about half the state’s brewers at the time — to find out what resources the center could provide and how it could best assist them. Through that assessment, the UNI center in 2017 developed an “Iowa Green Brewery Certification” program.

As Iowa community college enrollment drops, tuition ticks up, perpetuating a cycle – influenced by a range of factors like COVID, the economy, and the need to balance a budget – that mirrors community college trends nationally threatening their ability to meet workforce demands.

UIHC Chief Nurse Executive Kimberly Hunter will take over as the interim CEO of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clincs after on an interim basiWhen outgoing University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics after current CEO Suresh Gunasekaran assumes his new post in San Francisco on March 1.

Four years after lower-than-requested state funding forced Iowa State University to downsize its new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, ISU is returning to lawmakers this session seeking support for a “phase two” of the project.

For the first time since launching in fall 2019, the University of Iowa’s new online Master of Business Administration degree has made the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for “best online MBA programs.”