The University of Iowa eclipsed $400 million in external funding for research for the fourth consecutive year. The UI's total share of external funding for fiscal 2012 was $438 million, up 3.2 percent compared to fiscal 2011, when excluding short-term stimulus funding. The UI also landed a record number of grant awards. Story
The Iowa Board of Regents on Wednesday voted to approve schematic designs and funding to bring arts buildings destroyed by the 2008 flood back to life, a significant step forward in the campus recovery process. Story
UI management professor Gary Fethke says public universities must accept that higher funding levels are never coming back and plan accordingly.
Story from: Pittsburgh Tribune
