Research funding also helps boost the state's economy, according to a study done by Tripp Umbach, a Pittsburgh-based consulting firm that presented its findings to the NU Board of Regents in December.

Under a bill advanced by Iowa lawmakers, cities with citizen police review boards would have to disband the commissions, including Iowa City’s. The three-member panel of Iowa Senators advanced the ...

Pillen, who served on the NU Board of Regents before becoming governor, also proposed transferring roughly $11 million from a biomedical research fund into the budget for the Department of Health ...

In addition, Pillen, who once served on the NU Board of Regents, proposed taking away $11 million in annual state tobacco settlement dollars that fund biomedical research at the university.

During a work session at the board of education’s organizational and regular meeting Saturday, Board president Brian Davis said that the elementary was the last building that they’ve had issues with ...