Outside Hancher Auditorium on a sunny day amid puddles and mud, Gov. Chet Culver signed I-JOBS bills into law Thursday that will secure $100 million for the UI’s flood-recovery efforts.
Though Hancher...
UI senior Emily Samuels thought her postgraduation plans were set after officials at C.H. Robinson, a logistics company in Chicago, offered her a job last October.
But all that changed when company officials...
The UI, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa will join together at UNI for a conference today on preventing and taking a stand against violence against women.
The three regent universities...
While working with patients diagnosed with vascular disease at the UI psychiatry department, UI junior Caitlin Moore began to wonder how difficult it would be for the individuals to live independently....
The university will save roughly $200,000 on the re-roofing of Burge Hall this summer, University Housing Director Von Stange said.
The savings are a result of local contractors’ lower bids during the...
Waste production, an area usually unaffected by the ups and downs of the economy, is experiencing an unprecedented downturn after steadily increasing since the 1960s.
This year is the first time residential-waste...
Most people worry more about the price of gas than the pump it’s coming out of.
But if it’s a pump in Johnson County: Consumers beware.
The Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau does not complete its...
One Iowa City woman has pulled her children from school and said she is leaving the city following a series of riots outside her home.
Iowa City police responded to a fight Wednesday at City High, 1900...
The local-option sales tax would have garnered millions of dollars more for flood mitigation if it had passed in Coralville, but some of the area’s business owners say they’re glad customers will not...
For Lindsey Quinn-Wriedt, a UI graduate student who recently married her wife, the out-of-state legal issues facing her nascent same-sex marriage are daunting.
“It’s scary — if we were in a car...
UI senior Rachel Bender cannot picture where she will be living 10 years from now — and the uncertainty excites her.
Bender, 22, is an international-studies major with an emphasis in global health and...
As the weather heats up, the grills come out and people are ready to barbecue.
And though the pork industry took a big hit after the term “swine flu” scared some people away from the meat, prices...
