One freshman from Hungary learned about the UI through his grandparents. A Chinese student heard about the campus through a friend. Another discovered it on the Internet.
Some international students find...
Firefighter Will Shanahan strapped on a bulky ice-rescue suit the color of an orange traffic cone. Other firefighters inflated an emergency craft.
The gear, used just last weekend to save a 1 1⁄2 year-old...
Ann Campbell has a passion for disaster relief.
The UI associate professor of management sciences has researched relief logistics since the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
During that disaster, she became...
Members of the Iowa City School Board are worried about students’ test scores.
Students in the School District failed to meet state goals in their Iowa Test of Basic Skills scores in the fall of 2009,...
UI senior Katie Ovrom said she wants to do everything. But sometimes it stresses her out.
“I think people are trying to do all of it, and that’s not really conceivable,” said the double major in...
Some students learned on Tuesday that bars and parties aren’t the only way to have fun at the UI.
The Student Organization Fair, which officials hold each semester, provides an opportunity for students...
UI senior Christopher Schafer didn’t have an average trip back to the UI after winter break.
Coming home from Japan, the 24-year-old had a long haul to hometown Bettendorf made even worse when the plane...
Attorneys for a Minneapolis man charged in connection with the 2004 break-in at the UI Spence Labs requested his trial be delayed.
Scott DeMuth, 22, is charged with conspiracy to commit animal-enterprise...
The Iowa City School Board chose to hire Hazard Young Attea & Associates to assist the district in its search for a new superintendent.
In a unanimous vote, School Board members decided on the Illinois-based...
Men’s Journal has named Iowa City the healthiest town in the United States.
The ranking is based on a set of criteria established by Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for CNN.
Gupta searched...
The year was 1983, and a 35-year-old Terry Branstad was sworn in for his first term as Iowa governor. Future UI student Nic Pottebaum wasn’t going to be born for about seven more years.
Back to the...
Iowa City city councilors expressed disappointment Monday with local bar owner Mike Porter for failing to meet a fire-code compliance deadline.
The City Council moved its decision on Porter’s liquor-license...
