Vanessa Miller

Near the end of the first full budget year since the University of Iowa initiated a $1.165 billion public-private partnership to operate its utilities system, campus administrators have identified seven projects to receive a total $12 million in funding from the partnership-enabled endowment.

Fireworks-related injuries at Iowa’s two largest trauma systems spiked after lawmakers legalized their sale in May 2017 — including a fourfold increase in injured kids, hit especially hard by the surge.

Student government leaders want lawmakers to increase state appropriations and reverse the state’s generational disinvestment in Iowa’s public universities.

Iowa’s Department of Education on Wednesday announced it’s committing $20 million of federal pandemic aid toward a new University of Iowa-based “Center for School Mental Health” that will, among other things, offer teacher training and needs assessments statewide.

Iowa on Tuesday became home to the National Science Foundation’s fourth and final wireless research platform — supported through a $100 million public-private partnership — thanks to a $16 million investment in Iowa State-led research aimed at achieving universal and affordable rural broadband.

“Reentry anxiety refers to fear that can accompany letting go of the safeguards that protected us during the COVID-19 pandemic and our reentry into a world that has been changed by the virus,” Pawlak said. “This fear can manifest as a reluctance to switch back to pre-pandemic practices.”

3.5% increase proposed at the University of Iowa and Iowa State; 1.5% at the University of Northern Iowa

One year ago, Coe College in Cedar Rapids announced it would start recognizing Juneteenth as a campus-wide holiday, a year before the federal government would take the step.

UI Health Care recently became the first in Iowa to acquire a minimally-invasive robotic surgical assistant that’s proving to be a game-changer for patients and surgeons alike.

President Joe Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan includes a section on community colleges, designating $12 billion to boost the campus’ infrastructure and technology, and charging states to use their cut to improve access and opportunities at the local higher education hubs.

While masks can be easy to recycle or reserve in case of another surge or viral emergency, large sheets of acrylic glass can be harder to reuse, repurpose, or materially reprocess.

University of Iowa Health Care’s century-old children’s hospital — which recently got a

The University of Iowa, while eager to resurrect a more traditional college experience, also is gleaning lessons from the pandemic and hopes to capitalize on them right away with a Fall 2021 “work-arrangement pilot” allowing some staffers to maintain remote, hybrid, and flexible schedules.

A decade after University of Iowa Athletics launched a “Think Before They Drink” campaign aimed at curbing football-related drinking — but facing massive losses from COVID — the department on Thursday announced it will expand alcohol sales at athletic events, including football, basketball, and wrestling.

In response to Iowa-specific legislation Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Tuesday, echoing the now-reversed White House order by barring the same “divisive” concepts from mandatory training at public universities and other government entities, UI indicated the bill won’t affect programming.