After nine weeks in Africa and hundreds of hours spent compiling research, UI senior Amanda Irish was finally able to showcase her work Monday in Des Moines.
Irish was one of 20 UI students selected to...
UI Lecturer Judy Collins’ nursing career is focused on medicine and the healing power of words.
As a former psychiatric mental-health nurse, she spent most of her days checking on patients and helping...
With an orange kanga — a cotton cloth symbolizing womanhood in many African communities — wrapped around her body, Grace Gathua performed a piece combining singing, dancing, and drum-beating, kicking...
As stocks plummet and unemployment rates jump, businesses across the country are posting losses.
But there’s no business like show business.
Movie theaters are seeing a counterintuitive trend: As the...
Iowa City School District officials have made their first cuts in an effort to reduce expenses by $6 million over the next two years, Superintendent Lane Plugge said.
Included in the district’s initial...
A proposed program through the UI School of Social Work may make students more culturally diverse — a valuable skill in an expanding global environment, program proponents say.
The Critical Cultural...
Chilling rain on March 7 didn’t slow the hundreds of runners at Hubbard Park — all of them nearly naked.
The UI’s first Nearly Naked Mile, sponsored by Students Today Alumni Tomorrow, encouraged...
Housing more than 2 million books, the size of the UI Main Library is around that of Boston Public Library and the New York Public Library — only it’s bigger.
Built in 1951, the UI Main Library easily...
Whether slathered in spices, blanketed in bacon, or sizzling in salt and pepper, corn may come to Iowa City in a whole new package, freshening up the street-food scene one cob at a time.
CorNroc, a new...
Authorities are searching for a man who reportedly sexually assaulted a female UI student in Mayflower early Sunday morning.
According to a joint e-mail from University Housing and UI police, an unidentified...
When UI junior Sara Hershner planned her spring break vacation to Puerto Vallarta last November, she hadn’t heard much about Mexico’s drug wars.
But a heightened rate of crime and violence has led...
Even for Doug True, the UI senior vice president for Finance, budget crunching is no walk in the park.
“I’d like to think that by now, I’ve seen everything,” he said.
But he said he has never...
