Iowa City School District officials seemed closer to hiring a consultant who would help address burgeoning enrollment in some district schools.
Robert Schwartz and Mark Porter with RSP & Associates,...
Iowa City city councilors will soon consider two ordinances that would impose a citywide curfew and criminalize certain bad behavior in juveniles.
The proposals, which the council will discuss on Sept....
Schools nationwide — including Iowa State University — are ending their on-campus housing’s landline service this fall, but the UI has yet to join the trend.
ISU is in the process of deactivating...
Blood samples from 483 Mongolian animal workers arrived on the UI campus this month, destined for epidemiology research labs.
A rising number zoonotic infections — viruses transmitted between animals...
On Thursday, UI senior Jeff Shipley will have one final task before joining his fellow Hawkeyes downtown to forget their first week of classes.
He has to turn in a list of peoples’ signatures in support...
Two downtown bars have asked state officials to overturn the Iowa City City Council’s decision to deny their liquor licenses.
Lynn Walding, the administrator of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division,...
A pile of hundreds of bubble-wrapped computers lurks in the UI Communications Center waiting to be shipped away.
Destination: Africa.
For the UI-based Widernet Project, established in 2000, delivering...
Getting hundreds of pieces of art back on campus is a relief to those affected by the UI Arts Campus flooding during the summer of 2008.
“It’s just like seeing old friends or family that you really...
All one needs to do is utter the word “opera” in front of UI music student Chaz’men Williams-Ali for his passion to become immediately visible.
Williams-Ali spent most of his life in St. Louis with...
For students, buying books means braving lines winding to the back of the stores, toting stacks of texts weighing slightly less than a German shepherd, and shelling out hundreds of dollars.
It was more...
While the Iowa City police step up patrols downtown in hopes of reducing violence in the area, UI graduate student Jerrod Koon says they may be missing the point.
Koon, the coordinator of the UI Men’s...
The walls of Shambaugh House, which for years have contained noted authors from around the world and echoed their well-written words, are going green — very green.
The plan started with a desire to...
