The first thing Eric Jacobson noticed when he walked off the airplane at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, last summer was the oppressive desert heat.
“That was my first realization...
That’s Rentertainment, an Iowa City movie rental store, is hanging on by a thread.
Thanks to such modern services as Netflix and Redbox, Ross Meyer, the store’s owner will be forced to close in the...
A relaunched series at the University of Iowa aims to enrich faculty members with one concept: cultural competency.
The Staff Language and Culture Services will restart “Accents In the Workplace and...
Jenna Heide is constantly sick.
Though the University of Iowa freshman received a flu shot over winter break, she’s consistently unhealthy.
“Literally, I have a cold 24/7, or at least symptoms...
Robin Hemley and three of his University of Iowa graduate students paged through a 1950s catalogue with pictures of old fans, ovens, and floor ventilators.
The group agreed it was unfortunate no one has...
The University of Iowa is losing strong faculty members to other states because of the negative side effects of ongoing state budget cuts, UI President Sally Mason told legislators Wednesday.
In her presentation...
Only two other states have had sharper decreases in state funding reductions to public universities from the last fiscal year than Iowa, according to a recent study.
Iowa ranks third in the nation with...
Legislators introduced a bill in the Iowa House Wednesday that would require the University of Iowa to sell its famous Jackson Pollock painting and use the revenue for scholarship assistance.
The painting,...
The nine purple “donation station” parking meters in downtown Iowa City have raked in $900 for local nonprofit organizations in eight months.
And soon, they may become public artwork.
The city installed...
Lynne Hungerford wasn’t about to let her brain disintegrate after she retired. Which is why the 68-year-old spent an hour-and-a-half discussing paintball, video games, and war movies Wednesday night.
Hungerford...
Roy Justis remembers the days when he wore a red nose and big shoes to work instead of a suit and tie.
In the 1960s, Justis — donning a bright blue suit with red hair jutting from each side of his head...
An Iowa City attorney who filed a lawsuit against Apartments Downtown said he now has the ideal number of plaintiffs.
Christopher Warnock and his client, Michael Conroy, filed the original petition ...
