When Ugur Akgun told his students to log online and Tweet questions during his lecture last week, he was disappointed to discover Van Allen Hall didn’t have wireless.
Frustrated, the assistant research...
Amid talk of parking lots and walking distance, another factor in the debate over where to build the Hancher/Voxman/Clapp complex lies underground in the tunnels and pipes branching from the UI Power Plant...
After months of waiting, the UI Labor Center and the Center for Human Rights are set to receive a $50,000 grant to combat discrimination against immigrant workers across the state.
Amy Weismann, the deputy...
Some faculty members are worried about the disparity between the increase of tenured positions at the UI compared with nontenured jobs.
The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty at the UI increased...
A recent game of catch in the Mayflower Residence Hall ended in the building’s evacuation as ankle-deep water partially flooded two floors.
Josh Nikolovski, a freshman living on Mayflower’s third...
The director of the UI’s Dual Career Network, received an e-mail last March from somewhere unexpected: Tübingen, Germany.
Waiting in Joan Murrin’s inbox was an invitation from the German American...
Red and black ink covers the pages of a 15th-century book. They crackled as Timothy Barrett carefully turned them.
Most people would probably ask the title of the book.
But Barrett wants to know the...
Doctors and nurses from the UI Children’s Hospital went to Jamaica last week — but it was hardly a vacation.
Physicians including Stacy McConkey, a UI clinical associate professor of pediatrics,...
Larry Meyers, the Johnson County supervisor known for his work to preserve the area’s northern quarter, died Tuesday. He was 58.
Meyers learned he had cancer just after serving his first year on the...
Joe Goodner joked he has a favorite type of tear-gas canister — the kind that hurt least when it struck him in the head.
The former UI student spoke to dozens of people at the Iowa City Public Library...
Coralville may now be known for its bustling mall and seemingly endless new commercial developments, but officials are looking to revitalize another, less familiar part of the city — Old Town Coralville.
The...
Dan Chaon stood in a typical Nebraska heat, looking out onto the lake bed. It seemed abandoned or forgotten, dried sand blowing through the patches of scrub. It was the same place Chaon spent his childhood,...
