Carol Severino, a UI associate professor of rhetoric, said she has received decidedly informal e-mails in her communications with some students who “forget they’re talking to a professor and not one...
Bigger warnings. Bad taste. No flavors. At the national level, lawmakers hope these changes to cigarettes will discourage people from smoking.
On June 11, the Senate approved the Family Smoking Prevention...
Today, some UI Hospitals and Clinics employees will learn whether their jobs have been cut in an effort to relieve the institution’s strained budget, UI officials said Tuesday.
Throughout the week,...
Next year, those who wish to teach won’t have to go through the College of Education. And they won’t need to endure unpaid student teaching.
Pending approval from the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners,...
It’s not just UI students with a drinking problem.
The binge-drinking rate, as well as alcohol-related crimes and fatalities, rose on college campuses nationwide over the past decade, according to a...
People parking in city garages may have to reach deeper into their pockets.
The Iowa City City Council approved a number of amendments to different parking ordinances at its meeting Tuesday. The changes...
UI junior Daniel Sloyan has told professors he’s found answers to his homework online. To his surprise, many didn’t mind; in fact, they seemed to appreciate his quest for additional resources.
This...
Sporting a “We Care” button on his lapel, 85-year-old Frank Cheng — a professor emeritus in radiology and a member of the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce — said he worked tirelessly to “help...
Researchers presented around a dozen projects centered on flood mitigation Monday, and each presented unique results that could play a role in Iowa City’s and the UI’s future.
As part of the flood...
Iowa City police arrested two men in connection with an attack that left a 37-year-old man with 5-inch-deep stab wounds “all over his torso,” police said.
Harry Rayton IV, 22, address unknown, and...
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...
