Vanessa Miller

When the University of Iowa celebrates its 175th anniversary next month, it plans to highlight three areas in which faculty have made transformational differences across the state, nation, and world: writing, space discovery and medicine.

After butting heads with community health care providers opposed to its plans to build a new hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care now is echoing its critics’ concerns as the state considers a proposal to build a new ambulatory surgery center down the road from UIHC’s project.

In a new era allowing college athletes to receive education-related compensation and make money off their name, image, and likeness, an Iowa lawmaker is looking to empower the Board of Regents to “fix the compensation for student athletes” at its public universities.

With COVID cases surging in Iowa as students return to its public universities for the spring semester, the University of Iowa graduate student union is urging members to move all courses they’re teaching online for the first two weeks – despite UI policy barring such action without permission.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO Suresh Gunasekaran — just three years after arriving — has been recruited away to the No. 9-ranked University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.

In a Monday letter to “Hawkeye parents,” University of Iowa Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz reframed and rephrased his recent decision to “dissolve” an alumni advisory committee created in 2020 following allegations his program fostered a culture of racism and bullying.

The University of Iowa is seeking help ensuring compliance with other states’ labor and payroll laws and practices for employees working outside Iowa — as the campus approves more remote-work arrangements amid COVID-propelled changes.

A year and a half after the University of Iowa Athletics Department formed an alumni advisory committee in the wake of players alleging the football program fostered a culture of racism and bullying, head coach Kirk Ferentz on Tuesday abruptly dissolved the volunteer group following a contentious meeting.

At age 41, Melissa Febos today is an accomplished author, associate professor of English, and member of the esteemed master of fine arts faculty with the acclaimed UI non-fiction writing program.

From a young age, inquiry drove Don Gurnett to discovery. He’s recounted for The Gazette memories walking the UI campus as a teenage freshman with his eyes heavenward in awe of Sputnik, the novel Russian satellite fueling the international space race.

Heading into a spring semester plagued by soaring COVID cases – far above rates when students returned in the fall – a University of Northern Iowa professor again is being forced to do all his teaching online due to his insistence students in his classes wear face masks.

University of Iowa officials on Wednesday disclosed plans over next decade to buy Old Capitol Town Center, sell its 109-year-old downtown Jefferson Building, modernize its memorial union, replace its IMU parking ramp, and upgrade its athletics facilities.

Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday announced no changes to its campus guidance or operations for the upcoming spring semester, scheduled to begin Jan. 18.

Following a vast and swift trend sweeping four-year colleges and universities nationally, the Iowa Board of Regents is moving to permanently eliminate the mandate that applicants to their public universities submit either SAT or ACT scores.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay the former director of a University of Iowa program for students with disabilities $325,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing the institution and Board of Regents of age and gender discrimination and of violating her civil rights for equal pay.