Electrical sockets poke out of the thick gray carpet, awaiting 20 sleek computers. Two pristine new projectors hang from the ceiling. But amid the shiny and new elements of the soon-to-open math tutoring...
Drew Dillion churned out more than 52,000 words throughout November.
The 26-year-old Iowa City resident typed half into his computer, and scrawled the rest by hand in a small spiral notebook.
Dillion...
Officials at the University of Iowa plan to "beet" the ice this year.
UI landscape services will use an eco-friendly sugar beet juice — a substance called ProMelt that combines salt with...
When Evelyn Cardenas was only one and a half years old in 1976, she barely survived an 7.5 magnitude earthquake — capable of widespread damage —that hit her community in Guatemala.
Since then, the...
A North Liberty man faces a slew of charges after a series of incidents that began with a dog bite.
James Richter, 40, North Liberty, was charged with assault causing injury, assault causing injury with...
University of Iowa graduate Roger L. Koch donated $2 million to research on bipolar disorders and support for the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, according to a UI press release.
The...
Hector Ibarra, a former West Branch middle-school science teacher, was selected to be the new Environmental and Public Health Ambassador for the State Hygienic Laboratory.
According to a press release,...
For Iowa City, drinking is a local problem. And the Iowa City city councilors want more local control over it.
And that tops the list of the City Council's priorities for 2011.
Iowa City officials want...
A court ruling in Virginia, which will ban alcohol advertisements in the state's college newspapers, will likely not affect Iowa or local college newspapers, according to a University of Iowa professor.
On...
Doris Hughes may be 85, but she still has some unfinished business.
For years, she had wanted to make a scrapbook of her family history back to the Civil War. She had the information and photos, some...
While members of the search committee chosen to select the next provost haven't met yet, they are already creating an image of the person they want to fill former Provost Wallace Loh's shoes.
And longevity,...
Not long ago, when kids were bullied on the playground, they could often go home to get away from it.
But now, virtually anyone can bully students instantly from the touch of a cell-phone or computer....
