The UI will provide nearly 100 percent tuition assistance to teaching assistants by 2011 as part of the graduate students’ new contract with the state Board of Regents, said Mark Salisbury, the president...
The Iowa Supreme Court reduced the amount the UI will pay in damages and attorney fees to a university fraternity, whose members sued the UI in 2005 over the chapter’s suspension.
The court ordered...
When the 2008 floods hit, some said there was no “go-to” expert within the state to rely on.
“I think it’s a fabulous idea,” Hogg said. “I think it’s a good thing to do, and in the long...
Standing in front of a large map of the Middle East, UI medical student Harb Harb presented the background and current situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to a global-studies class of roughly...
With the Iowa City School Board’s budget decreasing by $6 million over the next two years, officials are considering staff cuts and a possible adjustment of school hours.
Because of inevitable staff...
With only 347 days until Dance Marathon’s Big Dance returns to the UI campus, there is little time for organizers to be idle.
“Dance Marathon is a 12-month program. The activities don’t stop after...
Sequins and scarves — in bright blues, greens, oranges, and yellows — and golden jewelry adorned the children and young adults as the bells on their ankles complimented the traditional and Indian pop...
Other parts of campus are probably jealous.
Everyone is always talking about the Pentacrest — where this building is in relation to that building and where your introduction to American politics meets.
Meaning...
A proposal in the Iowa Legislature would equalize the penalties for powder and crack cocaine, but opponents worry it will do little more than increase prison populations.
Under current law, sentences...
Talib Nawfel Talib is scared to death of going back home.
Talib, who has lived in the United States for four years, is from Baghdad. Since U.S. troops were deployed to his home country, members of two...
Iowa City could become, perhaps soon, the home of the nation’s first wind-energy campus after the construction of an industrial park situated at a transportation hub.
Officials hope the industrial area...
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...
