Vanessa Miller

He’s played for four NFL teams, been a Hollywood stunt double for Will Smith, and bungee-jumped out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, but some of Quinn Early’s fondest memories involve Iowa City and playing for the Hawkeyes.

University of Iowa Health Care made fast work of the recent approval to build a new hospital campus in North Liberty — moving dirt Thursday on the $395 million project.

John Steppe is joined by Mike Carmin to preview Purdue-Iowa and Vanessa Miller to break down Iowa settling a Title IX lawsuit on Hawk Off The Press.

With three more home football games remaining in the Hawkeyes season, the University of Iowa — like many employers locally and nationally — is facing a “significant” staffing shortage in and around Kinnick Stadium.

Given the state’s recent about-face allowing construction on a new $395 million University of Iowa hospital in North Liberty to proceed, it should grant the same permission for construction of a nearby, unaffiliated $17.9 million ambulatory surgery center, the application states.

A 24-year-old Marion woman was arrested Monday after officers found four dead cats in her apartment, which she had not visited in weeks, according to court documents.

Kirkwood Community College on Monday announced it has landed more than $2.5 million in federal support to help disadvantaged students earn a degree.

Like campuses nationwide thinking creatively about financial-aid offerings aimed at attracting, retaining and supporting more students in the face of higher education headwinds, Cornell College has unveiled a new “debt reduction pledge” to pay as much as half a student’s federal loan debt.

Instead of conducting the depositions during the Hawkeyes’ upcoming bye week Oct. 19 and 20 — to “continue day-to-day until completed” — the two coaches are scheduled to be deposed after the end of the football season, in January.

Donna Parsons – who spent 33 years at the UI before her untimely passing, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music and then a doctorate before joining the staff as a lecturer on popular music and culture – saw her large lectures gain legendary status, filling up in hours and forming wait lists.

The upper-level University of Northern Iowa students who last week experienced the “unnecessary stress and anxiety” of losing their specialized Plant Systematics professor as part of his discipline for mandating masks want their money back.

Heeding mounting pressure from not just directly-affected students but the larger student body, University of Northern Iowa late Wednesday revised its discipline of an embattled professor who required masks — allowing him to continue teaching the class he was removed from last week.

The full settlement in the case accusing UI Athletics of violating the federal Title IX gender equity law by not providing equal female athletic opportunities, benefits, and scholarships — obtained by The Gazette on Wednesday — includes a range of stipulations.

The about 12,000 Iowa State University graduates who completed their degree during the ongoing pandemic — between May 2020 and August 2021 — have been invited to return for a “special commencement celebration,” given many lost the traditional stage-walk experience.

The dozen University of Northern Iowa students left without an instructor after administrators stripped him of his in-person teaching duties for making them wear masks have continued meeting at their scheduled class time, and on Tuesday finalized a joint statement in support of their lost professor.