Just a few short months ago, women had to climb over each other to reach their seats in the free Nite Ride van. Add a few too many accidents with bodily fluids, and the UI police purchased a new vehicle.
At...
Crash-landing an airplane may sound like a fairly disorderly endeavor, but the pilot who brought his biplane down on an Iowa City street yesterday said the process is a bit more of balancing act.
Ron...
Programs that drastically increase police presence on specific roadways increase seat-belt use in those areas — though this effect rarely lasts.
Throughout the year, Iowa law enforcement conducts seven...
The Iowa City-to-Chicago train will likely have its depot near the UI campus.
The Johnson County Council of Governments Urbanized Area Policy Board approved a proposal that will allow Iowa City officials...
Officials are debating how much say the UI will have in policies regarding the new Johnson County Joint Emergency Communication Center.
The UI has representation on the advisory board — which is composed...
Martha’s Vineyard, Napa Valley, and Baldwin, Iowa? Tuesday, one of these things was not similar to the others. But that changes today.
Effective today, the Alcohol and Tobacco and Tax Trade Bureau will...
More than 90 years after Albert Einstein predicted certain properties of black holes, NASA has hired a team of UI researchers to confirm them.
The UI portion of the “GEMS” project — short for gravity...
Caffeine is a college student’s best friend. But those who don’t have time to sip a 16-ounce cup of coffee or an 8-ounce energy drink are increasingly reaching for a product that packs the same amount...
Plato said our traits are determined by nature. Aristotle said nurture. And UI scientists now say a single explanation is impossible.
Six UI researchers found genetic influences and experience are essentially...
An armed man reportedly robbed American Bank & Trust on Monday morning, becoming at least the third such incident in Johnson County this month.
At 9:05 a.m., Iowa City police received a call about...
Some on campus may doubt the power and weight of the UI Student Government on campus and in the community. The No. 1 complaint, said President Mike Currie, is that “we don’t do anything.”
That’s...
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently removed a confidentiality order related to reporting conflicts of interest in its published authors, based on a case involving a UI professor of...