For UI senior Sarah Rinehart, completing the Chicago Marathon mirrors the long battle children with cancer face: there are the ups, the downs, and the overwhelming relief once it’s all over.
“You...
Though the campus has seen a noticeably larger population of international students this year, they are mostly undergraduates.
“We traditionally recruit undergraduates for the academic benefits they...
Researchers from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say they may have found an endangered species of mussel in the Iowa River.
Officials are testing DNA to determine if what they found is an endangered...
April Armstrong, 33
Background: Armstrong moved to Iowa City from Newton, Iowa, to become a professional nanny in 1993. Her job has helped her develop strong communication and scheduling skills.
District...
A white ice-cream truck drives by the Iowa Regency mobile-home park, past week-old wreckage of demolished houses and a swampy condemned pool unevenly filled with a mound of dirt.
Children line up to buy...
A show called “Sweet Valley” inspired Bridgar Nayiga to pledge a sorority.
Except there are a few crucial differences: Nayiga is not a blond twin from California like her favorite TV characters. She...
Thirteen students watched as UI professor Edward Wasserman crouched and bounced, demonstrating a horse-jockey position that he researched on Google.
But the students were not studying horses. They were...
Steve Leazer watches as his colossal, curious cows follow each other into crammed, narrow stalls, where they’ll have a day’s worth of milk squeezed from their udders.
He is one of the more fortunate...
Thirteen-year-old Alex Ko feels a certain connection to Billy Elliot, the lead character he will play on Broadway in October.
After all, in Billy Elliot the Musical, Billy defies his father’s wishes...
Frank Cheng is 85 years old. But that doesn’t keep him from executing a nearly flawless tai chi pose he calls “tiger ascending the mountain.”
“My stability is a little off today,” Cheng said...
UI President Sally Mason voiced disappointment in a letter to Vice President Carol Clark of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. on the organization’s “Fan Can” marketing promotion.
Mason is concerned...
Earlier this summer, the city spoke.
Making a decision to deny renewing liquor-licenses of two downtown establishments — Et Cetera and 3rd Base Sports Bar — Iowa City City Councilors have made a clear...
