Board of Regents Newsletter: May 2022 Newsletter

A new home for Iowa State's Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, a new Center for School Mental Health and the Distance Education Task Force Report are on the docket this week in Iowa City Read more from the Board of Regents Meeting Preview
Iowa's public universities concluded the Spring 2022 semester with commencement ceremonies earlier this month. 2022 Spring Graduates Celebrate Accomplishments - Iowa Now Congratulations to ALL Spring 2022 Cyclone graduates - Iowa State on Instagram Meet the Spring 2022 Panther Grads - Inside UNI
Iowa’s version of LEAD-K legislation, which stands for Language Equality & Acquisition for Deaf Kids, was passed earlier this month. Stakeholders, including the Iowa School for the Deaf and the Board of Regents, have worked to pass this legislation for years. LEAD-K legislation is designed to ensure deaf and hard-of-hearing...
When the power grid goes down, there’s a step-by-step recovery process – a “blackstart” that up to now has depended on power from gas or hydro turbines spinning away inside a power plant. It was all relatively easy to control. Start up the turbines, use them to spin generators and...
For seven years University of Northern Iowa public health majors have collaborated with the Center for Energy & Environmental Education (CEEE) UNI Local Food Program to educate elementary school students on how food gets from a farm to their plate. The success of the program earned a recent Community Collaboration...