WASHINGTON DC (August 26, 2019) —

Q: What is the EB-5 foreign visa program?

AMES, IOWA (August 26, 2019) — Iowa State University announces scholarships awarded by the College of Human Sciences and affiliated academic units to undergraduate students for the 2019-20 academic year.

Zoe Allert of Bettendorf, Iowa (52722), who is studying Hospitality Management, received the Mary Ellen Lewis Scholarship and the Neva M Petersen Scholarship in Family and Consumer Sciences.

WAVERLY, IOWA (August 26, 2019) — Nineteen Wartburg College students were accepted into the Teacher Education Program.

Those accepted include:

Cole Duncalf of Long Grove.

Carlye Brown of Davenport.

Students must demonstrate effective reflective components in teaching, pass the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators exam and complete several other requirements to be considered for the program.

WASHINGTON DC (August 26, 2019) — Senators Charles "Chuck" Grassley and Joni Ernst sent a letter pressing the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to follow through on its commitment to rebuild a levee near Hamburg, Iowa, following the floods that devastated the area earlier this year.

GENESEO, ILLINOIS (August 26, 2019) — The 14th Annual Trains, Planes, and Automobiles event will take place Thursday September 5th through Saturday September 7th in Geneseo, Illinois. This year’s event will feature a train engine on display, WWII Stearman Bi-Planes, a guided golf cart tour of the historic Hennepin Canal, and a car show featuring over 300 classic cars.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (August 26, 2019) — Over the last ten years, Veto League Baseball (or “The VLB”) has collected 7,353 pounds of food for the River Bend Foodbank during the sandlot baseball league’s annual night game. On Saturday, August 31, 2019, the most-organized pick-up baseball-league in the Quad City area will again reward its 22 most consistent regular-season players with a night game at Bettendorf’s Saldivar Field. And The VLB will again collect food for the River Bend Foodbank.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (August 26, 2019) — Back by popular demand, 97X presents One Night with Queen performed by Gary Mullen and The Works, onWednesday, March 18, 2020. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 30, at 10AM.

AMES, IOWA (August 26, 2019) — On August 28, NextGen Iowa will register new and returning UNI students to vote as they arrive to campus for the fall semester. From GOP inaction on gun violence and climate change to the racist and violent rhetoric coming out of the White House, young voters are poised to play an outsize role in the outcome of November 2020. NextGen Iowa is hard at work engaging young people across the state about what is at stake in 2020.

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