DES MOINES, IOWA (September 20, 2022) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is encouraging all Iowa high schools to participate in a statewide effort to register students to vote. Each school that registers at least ninety percent of their eligible students to vote will receive the Carrie Chapman Catt Award, named after the Iowan who was a national leader in the women’s-suffrage movement.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 20, 2022) — A collaboration between a Monmouth College emeritus classics professor and a faculty member at DePauw University has led to a recently-published book, which offers a fresh look at the ancient Roman author Ovid.

CORALVILLE, IOWA (September 20, 2022) — The Iowa Women’s Foundation (IWF) is launching the public phase of a campaign that will raise $3 million dollars to establish a Legacy Fund. This will be Iowa’s first and only statewide fund dedicated to shattering the barriers to women’s economic self-sufficiency and improving the lives of all Iowa’s women and girls.

DeWITT, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — With a goal to support career and technical education training throughout the region, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is celebrating the start of construction for the Clinton Community College Career Advancement Center in DeWitt, Iowa, on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 10AM.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — More than 600 credit union leaders, exhibitors, speakers, and guests gathered in-person in Des Moines and online August 28-30 for the annual Iowa Credit Union Convention. This year’s convention celebrated the impact Iowa credit unions have made over the past year and explored new ways credit unions can impact the financial lives of Iowans moving forward.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller unveiled today a website dedicated to providing Iowans with a path to recovery from Opioid Use Disorder. 

FAYETTE, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Upper Iowa University has announced the Dean's List for the 2022 Summer Semester. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade-point average and be enrolled as a full-time student.

Gage Howard of Bettendorf IA

Marisol Lopez of Davenport IA

Stacey Smith of Eldridge IA

Emily Brade of Muscatine IA

Jadyn King of Rock Island IL

Mario Madrigal of Muscatine IA

Brittany Offutt of Davenport IA

PELLA, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Liz Hurlbut of Muscatine, Iowa, Central kinesiology major and Class of 2023, completed an athletic training internship with the Quad City Steamwheelers during the spring and summer semesters. She is working toward a pre-athletic training graduate program. John Roslien, associate professor of kinesiology, attended a game to watch her in action prepping players during the pregame.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (September 19, 2022) — The Rock Island County Health Department (RICHD) will have only fifty doses of the new Moderna bivalent booster available for its regular Tuesday COVID-19 vaccination clinic on September 20. Doses of the Pfizer bivalent booster vaccine will be offered when this week’s Moderna supply runs out.

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — The University of Iowa continues to attract high-achieving students.

This fall's incoming first-year class has topped previous records with an average high-school grade-point average (GPA) of 3.82. The average high-school GPA for the classes of 2025 and 2024 were 3.81 and 3.78, respectively.

It is also the third-largest incoming first-year class on record at 5,178 students, after 5,643 in the fall of 2016 and 5,241 in the fall of 2015.

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