Around 80 percent of all Iowa high school students graduated on time in 2006 — 11 percent more than the national average, according to a study by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center.
And...
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...
In light of last week’s potential security breach at a Kirkwood office in Iowa City, UI officials said students’ and faculty’s personal information is secure on the university’s servers.
At the...
Dog days
Two guys and a Vienna hot-dog cart sit on the intersection of Clinton and Burlington Streets.
So about two weeks ago, they opened that place.
Foust said the two entrepreneurs are trying to...
Recent data show the percentage of full-time students working more than 20 hours a week has doubled since 1970.
But the relationship between student employment and education is complicated. And with universities...
On June 12, 2008, a classmate told graduate student Erin Barnes she had to evacuate her Hawkeye Court apartment by 4 p.m. the next day. She packed her bags and left, along with all other Hawkeye Court...
Unused newspaper stands, an abandoned bike rack left to rust, and weeds flowering from the cracks of uneven bricks mark a part of downtown that follows a slower rhythm than its rowdy neighbor, the Pedestrian...
While households around the world are experiencing the transition from analog to digital television, some forgo television altogether, preferring the Internet and DVDs instead.
UI senior Megan Lisman...
