Vanessa Miller

All legal proceedings in the case against a Cedar Rapids teenager accused of stabbing his parents to death in their home in October have been suspending so state psychiatric doctors can determine whether he’s suffering from a mental disorder.

The University of Iowa chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has responded to a lawsuit accusing it of aiding and abetting two brothers accused of sexually assaulting a student last year, renouncing any responsibility and blaming the accuser of unethical behavior.

With the 2020-21 flu vaccination rate among children 6 months to 17 years at 59 percent – a 5 percentage point drop from the year prior – Neiman said more can be done for many kids.

With a growing array of direct-to-consumer genetics companies enticing holiday shoppers to surprise loved ones with “the gift that brings families together,” University of Iowa experts are warning DNA tests sometimes can do the opposite — and buyers should beware of unintended consequences.

Fifteen months after a University of Iowa student reported she was sexually assaulted by two fraternity brothers, who then shared video and pictures of the attack, Iowa City police have arrested one of the accused men, Carson Douglas Steffen, on a harassment charge.

As part of derecho-related repairs to the campus’ iconic King Memorial Chapel, scheduled for later this academic year, crews this week are removing all 3,771 pipes from the chapel’s M.P. Moller organ.

After an abrupt end to last football season — when the Hawkeye’s planned Music City Bowl appearance was canceled due to COVID-19 — the University of Iowa is bowling again this year, with thousands of black-and-gold faithful amped to join in resuming the postseason tradition.

Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization the campus deregistered for barring an openly-gay member from becoming a leader, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.

Patients with Alzheimer ’s disease appear to be more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who don’t have the neurodegenerative disease, according to new University of Iowa research that could hold implications for ethical vaccine distribution and global policy decisions.

Among a handful of key areas on which the University of Iowa is focused as its heads into a post-pandemic future facing challenges old and new is mental health and supporting student well-being, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson told a group of community members Thursday.

Since the Board of Regents three weeks ago directed its public universities to make COVID “vaccination verification and accommodation systems available to all campus employees on a voluntary basis,” 3,426 workers have confirmed they’re vaccinated.

A 56-year-old Iowa City man is facing misdemeanor assault charges after authorities and University of Iowa officials say he hit two campus employees “in the back of the head, with no justification” on Monday morning.

Although UIHC in reapplying for a state “certificate of need” didn’t amend its project cost or size, officials did change how they described it - and the council highlighted that as a “significant” difference between the initially rejected and subsequently approved applications.

“Coe has made significant investments in this area, and will continue to do so going forward,” says the college’s new president.

Bundled-up tree-hunters with mittened kids in tow lined the road along the Ely evergreen market before it opened at 9 a.m. Friday. And at Solon’s Handley’s Holiday Hillside Inc., about 30 minutes south, dozens of parked vehicles squeezed the gravel road from both sides for as far as the eye could see.