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Byline: Kinsey Phipps 'Congratulations to the class of 2020.' Not the class of 2020 finishing out this academic year, but the one celebrating its anniversary of being five years cancer [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps While bright colors and party music celebrated survivors of cancer and those still fighting the illness in the Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge downstairs, dim lights and [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Just five months ago, Carson King became a viral sensation overnight. Now, the 'Iowa Legend' is dedicating his life to philanthropy by starting the Carson King Foundation, [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Thursday passed a first consideration of an ordinance that some local residents and farmers have criticized as restricting whether their [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps and Katie Ann McCarver 'What do we want? Sick leave. When do we want it? Now. If we don't get it? Shut it down.' Members of Service [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Carson King's household name will soon become household decor. The 'Iowa Legend' first received national recognition after his sign pleading for additional beer money from ESPN College [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps After a simple sign turned into a donation of more than $1 million to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Gov. Kim Reynolds has announced [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Anything for the kids? Busch Beer and Venmo agree. Thousands of dollars were raised for the UI Stead Family Children's Hospital after an answered plea for Venmo [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps The Hawkeyes won in more ways than one at the Cy-Hawk game on Sept. 14 when Altoona man Carson King's plea for Busch Light money turned into [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Mollie Tibbetts would have turned 21 years old today. Around the U.S., people are committing 21 acts of kindness or donating $21 today in University of Iowa [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps While dancers perform, music is produced based on their movements. A meditation headband analyzes brain frequencies to create sound. These are some of the inventions of University [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Select master's of public health students at the University of Iowa are going a step beyond research and the classroom, diving headfirst into what it's like to [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Illustrations of literary figures adorn her door, rugs, photos, and plants color her office. After just three weeks, new Honors at Iowa Assistant Director Emily Hill has [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps A pioneer in the arts and engineering, Virginia A. Myers had a vision to combine the two for the benefit of students in Iowa City. In 2015, [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Since 2008, there have been conversations about moving the University of Iowa's Center for Diversity & Enrichment offices under one roof. More than 10 years later, a [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps University of Iowa engineering students get hands-on experience and professional development, and they work toward a common goal in Iowa Baja. The group is a student organization [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Last year, Iowa City hosted 189 visitors from 68 different countries, helping build global ties locally. This effort is led by Council for International Visitors Iowa Cities. [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Last year, Iowa City hosted 189 visitors from 68 different countries, helping build global ties locally. This effort is led by Council for International Visitors Iowa Cities, [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Twenty-seven-year-old Dylan Slattery, a podcast host, speaker, and two-time cancer survivor, spoke at the 2019 Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Symposium in Iowa City on April 12. [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps From Iowa City to Italy to South America to Africa, 16 emerging female writers are on a six-month journey to kick-start their creative careers. The Women's Creative [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps One college. One book. One author. One academic year. The University of Iowa College of Public Health's annual book club allows students, staff, and faculty to collaboratively [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Twenty years after its start in at the University of Iowa, the Neuroendocrine Tumor Program at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is the first in North America [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Researchers in the U.S. and India have a common goal: using participatory research to study and understand the health impacts of things like pesticides, air pollution, and [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Until she was 17, Nkanyezi Ferguson lived in Zimbabwe with her family. She saw the effects of living in a country with a lack of access to [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps The popular fitness studio from the West Coast Barre3 has found a home with studio owner Maureen Beran in Iowa City. Starting with Thursday's grand opening, eastern [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Siyanda Mohutsiwa was in her home country of Botswana studying mathematics when she met the writer J.C. Hallman at a Catholic orphanage. He told her about a [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Saving money and saving time: these two factors are driving students to enroll in combined degree programs at the University of Iowa. Undergraduate-to-graduate programs, or 'U2G's' as [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Without Students Care, organization cofounder Michael Penniman wouldn't be able to attend the University of Iowa. Now, the nonprofit is expanding outreach by introducing College Students Care, [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps When Bob Kirby arrived at the University of Iowa in 1983, he was a postdoctoral fellow looking to gain some experience and further his research before leaving [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Five hours after his University of Iowa graduation ceremony in May 2018, Jeremy Marks was on a plane to China. Before heading to graduate school this past [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps Dina Bishara and Jessie Witherell have experienced the adage that no one knows a child's needs better than a mother. Knowing this, the two founded the Iowa [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps For a week and a half this school year, Iowa City students have been trapped in their homes, teachers unable to present lesson plans and administrators left [...]

Byline: Kinsey Phipps The Honors at Iowa program has decided to rearrange scholarship opportunities and add the Presidential Fellowship for first-year students. The addition of this award is among other [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsResidence-hall living brings daily dining-hall options for students. They feast on all the classics -- pizza, cereal, burgers, and salad bar. This all-encompassing buffet is served daily, but [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsThe Richard O. Jacobson Foundation recently contributed $4.5 million to create two endowed chairs at the University of Iowa Stead Family Pediatrics Department.There are 15 divisions in the [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsUI earth and environmental sciences Professor Christopher Brochu's office shows his passion for his research simply by its contents: books stacked high, papers scattered across his desk, and [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsAs winter weather continues to hit Iowa City, students with vehicles parked in the Hawk Lot may face challenges in accessing their cars.After snowfall, plows clear driveways, but [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsJennifer Fisher stood in front of the rope put in place to keep media personnel at a distance as the Alabama football team swarmed the field, thanks to [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsLocally owned and operated in Iowa City, CHOMP Delivery emphasizes the importance of supporting local businesses, cofounder Adam Weeks said as he was stuck in traffic out on [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsThe medical community has believed the job of the cerebellum, located in the base of the skull, was mostly for motor function. University of Iowa Assistant Professor of [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsStarting this summer, RAGBRAI will partner with Big Grove Brewery to present the first BIG ROVE bike ride and a new home-brewed official beer of the bicycle event.According [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsForbes has just released their second-annual ranking of America's best employers for diversity, and the University of Iowa found itself on the list.UI Health Care was No. 24 [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsHawkeye Dreamers will not have to worry about leaving the U.S. for at least several more months after the Supreme Court on Tuesday took no action on a [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsOver the course of the next eight years, the Carver Charitable Trust will partner with the Carver Biomedical Engineering Department, thanks to a $12 million grant.Researchers will develop [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsNate Pierotti was a third-year engineering student at the University of Iowa when he told friends Connor Early and Sawyer Theisen about an idea to revolutionize the sport [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsFunctional pottery with celestial designs are the essence of Allison Fretheim's art. She has showcased her pottery for Iowa City residents for around two years at White Rabbit [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsThe University of Iowa offers free childcare for student-parents the two weekends before to finals to allow the parents to prepare for the end of the semester, helping [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsIowa City was designated the world's third City of Literature by the UNESCO on Nov. 20, 2008. It has been a decade of recognizing, learning, writing, listening, and [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsAfter the state Board of Regents in November approved closing the University of Iowa Labor Center, Iowans from across the state gathered Monday to protest the decision and [...]

Byline: Kinsey PhippsDanielle Leveille's Instagram looks like that of any successful model. Photos from various styles of fashion shoots fill her feed, captioned almost entirely in Japanese. However, Leveille is [...]