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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

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Illustration by Marandah Mangra-Dutcher.

Navigating the surge of artificial intelligence in higher education

Sabine Martin and Jami Martin-Trainor โ€ข August 23, 2023

For an hour and 15 minutes twice a week, University of Iowa students file into the Seamans Center to talk about ChatGPT, its uses, and related ethical concerns in the course โ€œGenerative AI Tools: ChatGPT...

Don Lund sits in a chair at his home in Golfview Mobile Home Park in North Liberty on Dec. 15, 2022.

Residents struggle with rent increases and maintenance in Havenpark Communities mobile home parks

Colin Votzmeyer, News Reporter โ€ข April 30, 2023

Editorโ€™s note: One of the sources referenced in the story, Don Lund, who was interviewed in December 2022, died in April. The Daily Iowan chose to keep his comments in the article. When Don Lund...

โ€˜Technoblade Never Diesโ€™: Former UI student and YouTuber remembered after death

โ€˜Technoblade Never Diesโ€™: Former UI student and YouTuber remembered after death

Jami Martin-Trainor and Marandah Mangra-Dutcher โ€ข April 30, 2023

Editorโ€™s note: The now-deceased YouTuber and streamer Technoblade never publicly identified himself. The Daily Iowan is respecting his familyโ€™s wish to refer to him as Technoblade throughout the...

Phlebotomist Ashlynn Woollums draws Andrea Mathesโ€™ blood at the Knoxville Hospital and Clinics in Knoxville, Iowa on March 14, 2023.

Iowa hospitals face mounting financial pressure, stagnating Medicaid reimbursement

Liam Halawith, Politics Editor โ€ข April 23, 2023

Among the hills of the Mississippi River valley in the southeastern tip of Iowa lies the quaint city of Keokuk. The town of just under 10,000 residents is one of many rural communities that has lost...

Iowa City Sober Living searches for a home

Iowa City Sober Living searches for a home

Gretchen Lenth, Copy Editor โ€ข April 18, 2023

It started with a road trip from Iowa City to St. Paul, Minnesota, in fall 2020. Sue Gardner invited her friend and fellow nurse in recovery from alcohol use Merrilee Ramsey to visit a residential...

Photo contributed by Cheryl Johnson.

Coming full circle on Capitol Hill: How UI graduate Cheryl Johnson became the U.S. House Clerk

Hannah Pinski, Executive Editor โ€ข April 11, 2023

For five days in January, U.S. House Clerk Cheryl Johnson was the most powerful person in the U.S. House of Representatives. The House of Representatives is usually run by the speaker of the House....

Iowa guard Caitlin Clark attempts shot during a 2023 NCAA womenโ€™s Final Four game between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 2 Iowa at American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, March 31, 2023. Clark scored 41 points. The Hawkeyes defeated the Gamecocks, 77-73, to advance to the National Championship Game.

National Championship Preview | Iowa takes on LSU with national title on the line

Ryan Hansen and Jami Martin-Trainor โ€ข March 29, 2023

National Championship Preview The Iowa women's basketball team clinched its first berth in a NCAA Tournament National Championship Game on Friday. Now, they take on LSU for a spot in the history books. Read...

Iowa wrestlers conduct team push-ups at the end of practice in the Iowa wrestling room at Carver Hawkeye Arena on Nov. 1, 2022.

Behind the Scenes | โ€˜Chasing Greatness: Wrestling Lifeโ€™

Kenna Roering, Sports Reporter โ€ข February 28, 2023

The Daily Iowan Documentary Workshopโ€™s first-released documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look into the blood, sweat, and tears of the Iowa wrestling program. โ€œChasing Greatness:...

After years of uncertainty, Forest View residents relocate

After years of uncertainty, Forest View residents relocate

Ryan Hansen, Managing Digital Editor โ€ข February 26, 2023

Once a flourishing, tight-knit community home to nearly 100 families, Forest View Mobile Home Park in Iowa City has been reduced to rubble. The park where low-income individuals and immigrants from...

Megan Wichmann takes a breath in between running drills with coworkers at a training tower in Cedar Rapids on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. The first-generation firefighter became a Cedar Rapids firefighter in 2014 after obtaining her EMS and fire science certificates and degrees from Kirkwood Community College in 2013.

Traversing through the smoke: Women on the frontline of fires and hardship

Grace Smith, Photojournalist โ€ข February 14, 2023

Megan Wichmann sat in her high school English classroom in 2009 and contemplated her new assignment for the month: Pick a career and research it. Wichmann was interested in shadowing a paramedic,...

Chun coaches her team during practice at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Chun coaches 15 wrestlers and continues to recruit each day. Although the team is still growing, it consists of strong and gritty wrestlers. Felicity Taylor, who transferred to Iowa in June to wrestle, is the first Iowan to win a National Collegiate Women's Wrestling Championship title. โ€œWe have a small team this year, so we have plenty of space on the mat,โ€ Chun said. โ€œWeโ€™re looking to double the size.โ€

โ€˜Building a plane as the plane is flyingโ€™: Clarissa Chun building Iowa womenโ€™s wrestling program from ground up

Chloe Peterson, Sports Editor โ€ข February 12, 2023

Three days a week, 15 womenโ€™s wrestlers trot into the Carver-Hawkeye Arena strength and conditioning room. On a typical day, the Iowa womenโ€™s wrestling team works through medicine ball circuits...

Former President of the University of Iowa Sandy Boyd reads from his memoir at the Iowa City Public Library on July 28, 2019. Boyd's memoir is titled "A Life on the Middle Westโ€™s Never-Ending Frontier."

Willard โ€˜Sandyโ€™ Boyd remembered as an icon at the UI

Hannah Pinski, Executive Editor โ€ข January 22, 2023

When Steve Gude transferred to the University of Iowa in 1977 from Simpson University, he wrote a letter to then-UI President Willard โ€œSandyโ€ Boyd during his first year. Based on his previous experience...