Inside an airport hangar in Iowa City, virtuality meets reality as students, researchers, and pilots experience firsthand new technological advances in air travel.
Operating at the Iowa City Municipal...
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...
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...
