With the federal economic-stimulus plan allocating more than $40 billion for energy projects, some at the UI are waiting to see how much funding wind energy will receive.
Following the trend of investing...
There is a new, tiny, super-economic car loose on the streets of Iowa City.
It’s the Zenn, designed by Zenn Motor Co., and it belongs to Liz Christiansen, the director of the UI Office of Sustainability.
The...
A UI law symposium today aims to help students understand the economic crisis.
“We are going to make our best effort to lay out the economic crisis so everyone can understand,” UI law Professor Enrique...
A new study cowritten by a UI sociology professor found that minority victimization increases during times of economic recession.
UI sociology Professor Karen Heimer and University of Missouri Professor...
From a country lifestyle of organic food and banjo music to receiving the esteemed title of Iowa poet laureate, Mary Swander has much to love about the state.
Gov. Chet Culver appointed the 1976 Iowa...
Wendy Cohen said the heavy, black gun she found with the belongings of Micah Matthews — her daughter’s ex-boyfriend who is on trial this week for allegedly sexually abusing a 50-year-old woman —...
Students are being laid off, the UI’s Jobnet is offering fewer positions, and finding some extra cash for the weekend seems harder than ever.
Across the campus and nationally, people are already feeling...
In today’s faltering economy, it’s good to be in the condom business.
Researchers at the Nielsen Co., an organization that measures retail trends, found more people are purchasing prophylactics. From...
Peggy Mills said it’s odd that while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is touring Asia, UI officials are considering a plan that Mills thinks could damage the Asian and Slavic languages and literatures...
Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1970s takeover of Chile seems distinctly different from the current bank bailout, but they may in fact share a few similarities. They were both born from shocking events.
Klein,...
That monkey at the zoo or those pigeons on the street may be a lot smarter than scientists originally believed, according to a recent study by a UI professor.
Ed Wasserman, a professor of psychology,...
Kristin Mirocha met some other women in a living-learning community before attending her first class freshman year at the UI — and four years later, she’s still good friends with them.
Mirocha’s...
