Michael Phelps may have conquered the 2008 Olympics, but he might also be destroying students’ computers.
Typing his name in five major search engines carries a 40 percent maximum risk of infection,...
For five days, UI junior Rachel Hirsh stayed in her home. She took the medicine doctors prescribed and rested. And just as seasonal flu comes and goes, the fever and headache disappeared.
Hirsh was infected...
In light of last week’s potential security breach at a Kirkwood office in Iowa City, UI officials said students’ and faculty’s personal information is secure on the university’s servers.
At the...
Around 80 percent of all Iowa high school students graduated on time in 2006 — 11 percent more than the national average, according to a study by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center.
And...
While households around the world are experiencing the transition from analog to digital television, some forgo television altogether, preferring the Internet and DVDs instead.
UI senior Megan Lisman...
They zoom around on three wheels — not four — and it may be a bumpier ride. And the fare is, well, whatever the customer wants to pay.
Cart-bearing bicycles called IC Ecocabs are Iowa City’s new...
Dog days
Two guys and a Vienna hot-dog cart sit on the intersection of Clinton and Burlington Streets.
So about two weeks ago, they opened that place.
Foust said the two entrepreneurs are trying to...
Recent data show the percentage of full-time students working more than 20 hours a week has doubled since 1970.
But the relationship between student employment and education is complicated. And with universities...
On June 12, 2008, a classmate told graduate student Erin Barnes she had to evacuate her Hawkeye Court apartment by 4 p.m. the next day. She packed her bags and left, along with all other Hawkeye Court...
Unused newspaper stands, an abandoned bike rack left to rust, and weeds flowering from the cracks of uneven bricks mark a part of downtown that follows a slower rhythm than its rowdy neighbor, the Pedestrian...
AMES — The UI may cut as many as 130 jobs by July 2010, part of an effort to slash its budget by $34 million, UI President Sally Mason told the state Board of Regents Thursday.
Officals hope to save...
While the publishing industry may be facing financial pressure in the current downturn, at least one segment of publishers remains optimistic.
Richard Sowienski, the managing editor of The Missouri Review,...
