UI linguistics Professor William Davies has visited Indonesia numerous times on the university’s dime.
But these aren’t pleasure vacations; he was on sabbatical — known in academia as professional-development...
While a majority of the UI’s stimulus money went to salaries and benefits for employees who will leave the university, several other important projects will also depend on the federal funding.
The UI...
UI officials are seeking answers about why students leave the university early, and they’re asking the students themselves.
The Early Intervention Committee, which identifies students who are experiencing...
As Laura Vukelich and Erin Schubert sat in a local ice-cream shop talking and laughing, they raised their arms to touch their fists together.
“Best friends forever,” Schubert said with a bright smile...
Iowa City officials are spreading more holiday cheer this season in the form of glimmering lights.
The bulbs went up before Thanksgiving and will light up downtown Iowa City until around the beginning...
Isabella Santoro thinks in a mix of languages.
The UI senior is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, and she has added English, French, and Spanish to her native Italian.
In her four years...
On Wednesday, state Board of Regents’ President David Miles asked UI President Sally Mason, along with the other regent schools’ leaders, to examine their operations to find more efficiencies and cost-saving...
On a given day, UI Surplus is packed with customers who rummage through the warehouse’s shelves of old Rolodexes, weathered desks, and hard drives.
“When people come in asking me what’s new here,...
Two downtown bars will keep their liquor licenses, despite being denied by the Iowa City City Council for having high underage-drinking rates, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Administrative Law Judge Margaret...
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — For most of his wife’s murder trial, Eugene Kehoe has sat straight-faced.
But on Tuesday, he wiped his eyes as he waited for his wife’s sentencing.
First District Judge Bruce...
Some UI employees will be forced to take 40 unpaid hours off in the next six months in an effort to save the university roughly $2.5 million.
All merit employees — which includes technical and security...
For Emily Brink and thousands of children in Africa, happiness comes from two needles and some string.
In two years of being involved with the Mother Bear Project, the UI freshman has donated more than...
