Researchers from the University of Iowa and 14 other institutions discovered that the omicron variant of the coronavirus causes much less weight loss and lung disease in mice and hamsters, similar...
Deputy Consul General, Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest Daniel Aschheim visited Iowa City this week, speaking with several community leaders during his stay.
Part of an outreach program...
A University of Iowa alum is among the final candidates named for the Iowa City Fire Chief position, as the department prepares for the retirement of current chief John Grier on Feb. 11.
Three final...
A West Des Moines man who assaulted multiple people at the University of Iowa’s Hospitals and Clinics was arrested by the UI Police Department on Sunday.
Tyler Jacob Summers, 32, was charged with...
Iowa men’s basketball will officially retire Luka Garza’s number on Feb. 22, per a Wednesday release.
The Hawkeyes will host a number retirement celebration and officially decommission No. 55,...
Iowa Senate Minority Leader Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, announced his reelection campaign for Senate District 43 on Wednesday.
Wahls was first elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018 and was elected...
Barry Schreier, director of the University of Iowa University Counseling Services, is leaving his position to become a full-time faculty member in the UI College of Education.
Schreier said he would...
The Iowa City Community School District board unanimously passed the “Be SMART” resolution, designed to help teachers and parents have conversations about gun safety and prevent child gun deaths...
University of Iowa students who self-report positive COVID-19 cases say they are avoiding isolating in university quarantine dorms.
According to data reported on Monday, 16 students were in isolation...
When Carmela Furio flew to Italy this spring for their semester studying abroad, they had a packet of files with them on the plane in case they were stopped when trying to enter the country.
Furio,...
Those seeking to become nurse-midwives can now study at the University of Iowa.
The UI Master of Midwifery program, approved by the state Board of Regents in September of last year, is currently...
Chloe Peterson, Assistant Sports Editor
• February 8, 2022
Broderick Binns, the Hawkeye Athletics Department's Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, has accepted a job outside the University of Iowa, per release.
Binns was Iowa Athletics' first...
![(From left to right) Stanley Perlman, Abby Odle, and Roy Wong pose for a portrait in the Bowen Science Building in Iowa City on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. Perlman described the experiment as a way to see how animals contracting the omicron variant will correlate with human reactions. “That’s what we show, that these both hamsters and mice duplicate many of the features people have [with] omicron, but not all of them.”](https://dailyiowan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/omicronFEATURED-900x600.jpg)
