Urban areas in Johnson County, including Iowa City, are now closer to being more bike friendly.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors passed its Master Bike Plan on Thursday. The plan is a comprehensive...
On Sept. 28, city employees will begin replacing some parking signs in Iowa City. The new signs will indicate parking restrictions based on odd and even days of the month rather than “calendar” parking.
Most...
More UI students are turning to the Crisis Center this year.
Approximately 320 UI students received groceries from the Johnson County Crisis Center in fiscal 2009, a 33 percent increase over last year....
The UI saw more calls regarding disrespectful behavior on campus last year, and officials cite the tough economy and flooding as contributing factors.
Seventeen percent of the calls to the UI Office of...
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...
UI officials say suggestions taken from a public forum have led to big savings for the university.
UI President Sally Mason established a website in February to connect the university community with...
One researcher thinks the UI is beginning to look more like a country club than an academic institution.
Iowa’s public universities are some of the worst in the nation at enrolling students from low-...
The UI has mandated all major buildings and renovations to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified, but the ranking system has drawn some opposition elsewhere.
The system rates green-sustainable...