UI Athletics just shared this release:
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Kate Martin (women’s basketball) and Jay Higgins(football) have been selected as Iowa’s 2024 Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners. The duo were chosen from Iowa’s list of 2023-24 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winners, which had a representative from each varsity sport.

Martin and the Hawkeyes set a program record and tied the Big Ten single-season record with 34 wins in 2024, captured the Big Ten Tournament championship and finished as national runners-up for a second straight year.

The Edwardsville, Illinois, native stands as the first Iowa women’s basketball player to have amassed 900+ points, 500+ rebounds, 400+ assists, 120+ steals and 60+ blocks in a career and is the third player in school history behind Caitlin Clark and Sam Logic to net 1,200+ points, 700+ rebounds, and 450+ assists. Martin scored 10+ points in 30 games last season, 15+ points in 17 games, while averaging 13.1 points per game in her senior campaign.

Martin was selected by the Las Vegas Aces with 18th overall pick in the second round of the 2024 WNBA Draft.

Higgins anchored the Hawkeye defense in 2023 with a breakout senior season. Higgins and the Hawkeyes won 10 games and advanced to the Big Ten Championship Game. Iowa’s defense was one of the best in the country, ranking fourth in scoring defense and the unit yielded 4.08 yards per play in 2023 to lead the nation for a second straight year.

The linebacker finished the year with 171 tackles, tying the Iowa record, while leading the Big Ten and ranking third nationally. The Indianapolis native was a first-team All-American by FWAA, Phil Steele and Sports Illustrated and second-team selection by the AFCA, CBS, Walter Camp, Associated Press and Sporting News. He led the team in tackles in 12 of 14 games, with three 15+ tackle games and 10 contests with 10 or more stops.

Higgins was also the unanimous recipient of the 2023 Duke Slater Golden Gavel Award, presented annually to the Hawkeye football player who not only is most cooperative with local media but exhibits themself with professional integrity in all interactions.

Is that bad? Seems bad.

It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, and the planet is poised to race past the hoped-for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.


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But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn’t just cause global warming — it also causes global cooling. It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.
Tiny particles from the combustion of coal, oil and gas can reflect sunlight and spur the formation of clouds, shading the planet from the sun’s rays. Since the 1980s, those particles have offset between 40 and 80 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases.



And now, as society cleans up pollution, that cooling effect is waning. New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans; China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.
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The result is even warmer temperatures — but exactly how much warmer is still under debate. The answer will have lasting impacts on humanity’s ability to meet its climate goals.
“We’re starting from an area of deep, deep uncertainty,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and research lead for the payments company Stripe. “It could be a full degree of cooling being masked.”

Most of the cooling from air pollution comes through sulfur aerosols, in two ways. The particles themselves are reflective, bouncing the sun’s rays away and shading the Earth. They also make existing clouds brighter and more mirror-like, thus cooling the Earth.

Coal and oil are around 1 to 2 percent sulfur — and when humans burn fossil fuels, that sulfur spills into the atmosphere. It is deadly: Sulfur dioxide has been linked to respiratory problems and other chronic diseases, and air pollution contributes to about 1 in 10 deaths worldwide.
Over the past few decades, countries have worked to phase out these pollutants, starting with the United States and the European Union, followed by China and India. China has cut its sulfur dioxide emissions by over 70 percent since 2005 by installing new technologies and scrubbers on fossil fuel plants. More recently, the International Maritime Organization instituted restrictions in 2020 on the amount of sulfur allowed in shipping fuels — one of the dirtiest fuels used in transportation. Shipping emissions of sulfur dioxide immediately dropped by about 80 percent. Mediterranean countries are planning a similar shipping regulation for 2025.
“There has been a pretty steep decline over the last 10 years,” said Duncan Watson-Parris, an assistant professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.
A bunkering barge, right, supplies fuel to a container ship with “green methanol,” which comes from low carbon sources, at PSA Tuas Port terminal in Singapore on May 27. (Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)
These moves have saved lives — according to estimates, around 200,000 premature deaths have already been avoided in China, and the new shipping regulations could save around 50,000 lives per year. But they have also boosted global temperatures. Scientists estimate that the changes in aerosols from the new shipping rule alone could contribute between 0.05 and 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming over the next few decades.



Some researchers have suggested that the changes to ocean shipping regulations may have been a big contributor to last year’s record heat — and that aerosols may have been masking much more heat than previously thought. Satellite images have shown that cloud changes declined after sulfur emissions went down.
“The data from NASA satellites shows that in regions where this should be expected, there’s a very strong increase in absorbed solar radiation,” said Leon Simons, an independent researcher and a member of the Club of Rome of the Netherlands, pointing to shipping areas affected by the new rules. “And also in this period you see sea surface temperatures increasing in the same region.”
In one new paper, scientists at the University of Maryland argued that the decrease in aerosols could double the rate of warming in the 2020s, compared to the rate since 1980. But other researchers have critiqued their results.


Many experts believe the effect is likely to be modest — between 0.05 and 0.1 degrees Celsius. “I don’t think it’s possible to get better than a factor of two, in terms of how uncertain we are,” said Michael Diamond, a professor of meteorology and environmental science at Florida State University.
Some scientists see the shipping regulation as an analog to a way that researchers are exploring to halt global warming: purposefully brightening clouds using less polluting methods. In Alameda, Calif., researchers recently released sea salt aerosols into the atmosphere as a first step to study how the particles could brighten clouds and reflect sunlight. City officials later halted the project, despite reports showing that the experiment was safe.
But the real issue is still ahead. Currently, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that aerosols are masking about 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming. But that value could be as high as 1 degree or as low as 0.2 degrees — and the difference could be the difference between meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris agreement or not.


If aerosols have been masking cooling much more than expected, for example, the world could be poised to blow past its climate targets without realizing it.
Almost 200 of the world’s nations pledged in the Paris agreement to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), compared to preindustrial levels. Scientists believe that many dangerous impacts, from the collapse of coral reefs to the melting of major ice sheets, will occur somewhere between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius.
“It’s not just a story of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Robert Wood, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington. “Whether you clean up rapidly, or whether you just fumble along with the same aerosol emissions, could be the difference of whether you cross the 2-degree Celsius threshold or not.”


No scientists are advocating a halt to aerosol clean up efforts — the death tolls from air pollution are simply too high. “There are really good reasons to want to be cleaning up air pollution,” Diamond said. “The public health benefits are really important.”
But researchers worry that cleaning up air pollution without halting fossil fuel use — as, for example, in China — could be a recipe for even greater and faster warming. “We need to make sure that we’re doing it at the same time as cleaning up methane and cleaning up CO2,” Diamond said. Cutting methane emissions, he noted, could help offset the effects of declining aerosols. Methane has a warming effect, but like aerosols, doesn’t remain in the atmosphere for very long.
Still, a lot of scientific questions remain — and until they are answered, the world won’t know exactly how much warming falling aerosols will unmask.

Iowa and Kinnick come in at No. 20...

Wisconsin is very overrated.
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Big win for Phil Parker and the Iowa secondary. Bell is a skilled corner that will succeed in the Iowa defense.

STORY:

A North Liberty restaurant is among several in Iowa facing steep fines of $50,000 up to $180,000 from the federal government for following a new state law loosening work requirements for teens that conflicts with federal child labor regulations.



Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Restaurant Association President and Chief Executive Officer Jessica Dunker were scheduled to hold a news conference Monday at Sugapeach Chicken & Fish Fry in North Liberty to discuss “excessive” federal fines against restaurants in the state, which she said included Sugapeach.


The news conference was canceled due to the ongoing flooding in Northwest Iowa, which Reynolds surveyed Monday instead. The governor’s office said it intends to reschedule the news conference, but a date had not yet been set.




Reached last Friday, Sugapeach owner Chad Simmons declined to speak with The Gazette ahead of the news conference. Simmons could not be reached for comment on Monday, when the restaurant is normally closed. A message left there was not returned.


Lawmakers last year loosened state regulations on teen workers, allowing them to work longer hours and at more jobs, including those formerly off-limits as being hazardous so long as they are part of a state-approved educational or apprenticeship program with proper supervision and safety precautions. It also allows 16- and 17-year-olds to serve alcohol with parental permission and adult supervision after training.


The Iowa Restaurant Association heralded it as a “legislative win” for its members. Now, it's warning members to revert to following the stricter federal regulations for workers under 16 as federal regulators have levied hefty fines on establishments.

What the law does​

The Iowa law says 14- and 15-year-olds can work up to six hours on a school day, two more than previously allowed, and can work until 9 p.m. during the school year and until 11 p.m. during the summer. Federal law, though, specifies they can work only until 7 p.m. during the school year and until 9 p.m. during the summer.


Federal law also states that 14- and 15-year-olds cannot work more than eight hours a day, and no more than three hours on a school day. They cannot work more than 40 hours a week during the summer and no more than 18 hours per week while in school.


Supporters have said the bill provides more opportunities for young Iowans who want to work and could help address the state’s shortage of workers.


Democrats, labor unions and others criticized the bill for conflicting with federal law, putting young Iowans at risk in dangerous jobs and creating confusing, contradictory rules for Iowa businesses to follow.





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Federal labor officials as well warned employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act who follow the less-restrictive Iowa law that they would be subject to penalties.


The Iowa Division of Labor website notes that most employers are subject to both state and federal child labor laws and, when there are differences, must follow the law that gives the most protection to workers.


In March, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda warned that “the department has and will continue to vigorously enforce child labor protections across the nation."


The federal labor department also sent letters in May and August 2023 in response to inquiries by Iowa Democratic state legislators warning that when state and federal labor laws conflict, federal law must be followed.

Association: Iowa restaurants singled out​

Dunker asserted that the U.S. Department of Labor is being heavy handed and singling out Iowa, noting it is one of 21 states — including Illinois and Minnesota — with employment laws related to minors that don’t comply with federal law.


“Iowa appears to be the only state where this level of financial punitive enforcement is being taken in regard to hours worked,” she said.


Dunker said the restaurant association is working with seven Iowa restaurants facing fines of $50,000 up to $180,000 for violating federal child labor laws, primary concerning hours worked by 14- and 15-year-olds.


She declined to name the other restaurants that had been inspected and fined, citing what she said is owners’ fear of retribution and their attempts to negotiate settlements and have their fines reconsidered. The U.S. Department of Labor did not immediately respond to a request for a list of establishments fined.


“Never before have we seen fines of this nature related to teenagers working until 9 p.m.,” Dunker said. “ … For some of them, it’s the end. There’s no coming back from that.”


Others, she said, are trying to negotiate a payment plan.


“For all of them, it means ending the employment of most 14- and 15-year-olds,” Dunker said. Restaurants “give 1 in 3 Iowans their first job, and we’re one of the few industries where 14- and 15-year-olds can find jobs. They do a great job. They’re valued employees.


“ … But the question that's at hand for us as an industry in the state of Iowa is that there is punitive enforcement to the point of being put out of business, not related to dangerous or exploitative work environments or situations, but for high school students doing the same job at 8:30 at night that they're doing at 6:30 at night. They're scooping the same ice cream. … They're making the same sandwiches at 8:30 (p.m.) that they're doing at 6:30 (p.m.)”


Dunker noted Iowa youth are permitted to participate in athletics and other extracurricular activities that go well beyond the hours they are permitted to work.

Feds: Child labor enforcement not unique to Iowa​

The Labor Department denies singling out Iowa, and says it dealing with violations nationwide. So far this year, the Department of Labor says it has found child labor violations in 16 states, with ongoing investigations in several other states.


Last fiscal year, the department concluded 955 investigations, identifying child labor violations affecting nearly 5,800 children across the country. Penalties assessed exceeded $8 million.


The Labor Department not typically does not disclose the reason for an investigation. Many are initiated by complaints. All complaints are confidential, the department says.


Labor officials noted the restaurant industry has a high rate of violations and often employs vulnerable workers who may not be aware of their rights or employment rules, such as the right to overtime and child labor restrictions.


Federal labor officials also pointed out that in 2023, the agency conducted more than 1,700 child labor outreach and education events to help employers understand how to maintain compliance with federal law. The agency also has several online fact sheets, FAQs and videos to help employers, workers and their parents.


“It’s dangerous and irresponsible that amidst a rise in child labor exploitation in this country, Iowa’s governor and state legislature have chosen to repeatedly undermine federal child labor protections despite the Labor Department’s clear guidance,” a U.S. Department of Labor spokesperson said in a statement.


“No child should be working long hours, doing dangerous work, or be employed in unsafe conditions,” the statement continues. “The U.S. Department of Labor is working every day to ensure that children seeking their first work experiences are doing so in a safe and responsible way. But under our watch, that will not include allowing children to be exploited.”

GUILFORD TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) – A teacher in Franklin County is facing charges after allegedly touching a student inappropriately multiple times.



Pennsylvania State Police say on May 30 they received a ChildLine report with allegations against Bonnie Gingrich, a teacher at Shalom Christian Academy. State Police say the victim disclosed Gingrich was reaching out to them and had inappropriate contact multiple times.

The victim told State Police that after receiving messages from Gingrich, that the two hugged, and she eventually put her hand up the student’s shirt and later down his pants. Gingrich is also alleged to have kissed the victim on the cheek.

State Police say all of the incidents occurred on school property between November 2023 and May 2024. Subsequent messages from Gingrich allegedly showed her wanting to meet the student outside of school, creating secret chat accounts, and warning them to delete messages.

Gingrich, who lives in Hagerstown, is facing charges of intercourse/sexual contact with a student, unlawful contact with a minor, and corruption of minors. She is scheduled for a hearing on July 16 and bail was set at $50,000.

In a statement on Tuesday, Shalom Christian Academy said “We are deeply saddened by the allegations against a former employee. We are cooperating with authorities. We are praying for everyone involved.”

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Free advice to voters and the media: Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say.
There’s been tons of credulous coverage of Donald Trump’s policy statements that defy his record. Take, for example, his “proposal” last week to provide green cards to foreign-born graduates of U.S. colleges.


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“Let me just tell you that it’s so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also,” the former president said on “All-In,” a podcast hosted by Silicon Valley investors. “But what I want to do, and what I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country.”

This is a terrific idea that politicians and wonks of all political stripes have proposed many times before.


After all, one of America’s greatest advantages is its ability to attract global talent — people who study here and invest their skills in the land of opportunity. We don’t have sufficient native-born talent to develop many of our “strategic” high-tech industries. For instance, international students compose about two-thirds of enrollment in electrical engineering and computer science graduate programs at U.S. universities, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics reports.


Unfortunately, after we train the best and brightest from around the world, we make it exceptionally hard for them to remain here by capping the number of high-skilled visas available and setting country-specific quotas for green cards. This can unwittingly help our adversaries. As Trump put it in the podcast: “I know of stories where people graduated from a top college or from a college, and they desperately wanted to stay here. They had a plan for a company, a concept, and they can’t. They go back to India. They go back to China. They do the same basic company in those places, and they become multibillionaires employing thousands and thousands of people, and it could have been done here.”

This is all true. But, when he was president, Trump made the problem significantly worse. He (or aides such as Stephen Miller) implemented policies that further restricted skilled legal immigration and made the lives of these international workers and students a living hell.


Denial rates for new skilled-worker visas roughly quadrupled under Trump, from an average of about 7 percent in the five years before he took office to 29 percent in the first half of fiscal 2020. (Then, in mid-2020, a legal settlement forced the administration to stop many spurious denials.) Trump’s appointees also made it much more difficult for skilled workers already here to renew their visas, adding red tape even when nothing about the workers’ circumstances had changed.
Trump’s immigration officials threw so much sand in the gears that visas were sometimes mailed out after they had already expired.



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On other occasions, Trump officials determined that high-skilled immigrants’ young children were “economic security” risks who must be barred from entry. His appointees were especially hostile to international students from China, despite Trump’s recent lamentations that U.S. policies are driving bright would-be entrepreneurs back to China. Or if not China (or India), the Trump administration’s various hostilities often drove talented immigrants to seek residency in Canada instead.


Trump’s plans for a second term would likely be worse. In late 2020, Trump tried to implement even more restrictions on high-skilled immigration, including one that would have once again jacked up denial rates for skilled-worker visas. Perhaps most relevant: He sought to reduce how long STEM international students could work here after they graduated. (Fortunately, neither policy was successfully implemented before he left office.)
Republican lawmakers probably wouldn’t stand in his way if he resumed this unfinished business. An early version of what would evolve into the Chips Act granted more green cards to immigrants with STEM doctorates from U.S. universities; Republicans killed the measure.

Why, then, did Trump make this new green-card promise (at least, until his campaign walked it back)?


Simple. He’s pandering — both to his deep-pocketed Silicon Valley donors as well as to the broader public. Polls show that Americans generally like legal immigrants. They believe legal immigration levels should stay the same or rise, think it should be easier to come here legally, and want more high-skilled immigrants in particular.
This is part of a broader pattern: Americans generally trust Trump more than Biden on immigration but disapprove of his immigration policies (the real ones, not the ones he occasionally pretends to espouse).
It doesn’t help, of course, that journalists often fail to stress-test his statements against his actions. As much grumbling as there is about our presidential rematch, this circumstance does confer one advantage: The candidates both have track records handily available. The media should use them.

My son watches it and being home from college, he has me watching it too. Yesterday's show was pretty amazing. If you're looking for something to watch during the summer, it is pretty good.

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I believe I shared this when I wrote the story on Cooper in the playoffs last year, but I'm not positive. Either way, he's got a younger brother who's set to be a freshman this coming year. Already 6'1" and a shooter like his older brother. Will play for Metamora all four years of high school.

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Wow, what a huge statement. The American College of Pediatrics has called out WPATH (and others) specifically calling their ideas outright harmful. This is long overdue and should have been incredibly obvious to anyone with a reasonable grasp on reality.

Social affirmation, hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries all deemed dangerous.

"Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria"

Actual common sense may prevail yet. This is going to be a very hard and bitter reality for some to accept (no pun intended), especially those who went "all in" with their kids on this insanity.

Both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University lost meaningful ground in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Global Universities Rankings” — out Tuesday -- with a 45-spot slide for UI and an 81-position drop for ISU.



Where UI ranked No. 180 out of 2,000 universities across 95 countries in the 2022-23 global rankings — the most recent international rankings published — it ranked No. 225 in rankings released today, out of an expanded 2,250 campuses across 104 countries.


That puts it well below the rankings of all 10 peer campuses the Board of Regents has chose to compare and contrast.




ISU dropped from No. 263 in the last ranking to No. 344 in the new one — putting it in the middle of its regents’ peer pack.


The University of Northern Iowa was not ranked either year.


Looking back five years, the UI is 72 spots lower than its No. 153 ranking in 2018. ISU is down 140 positions from its No. 204 placement in 2018.


“Their global rankings are very different from the U.S. rankings most people are familiar with,” UI spokesman Steve Schmadeke told The Gazette on Monday — noting 25 percent of a campus’ score in the global comparison is based on reputation surveys conducted through an outside company.





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“Because the global rankings focus on such a narrow scope (one that does not consider student access, success or outcomes) and have such opaque criteria, the university does not place a high emphasis on them,” he said.


U.S. News promotes its 10th edition of the international rankings — based “entirely on academic research and global and regional reputation” — as a guide for a growing number of students exploring higher education beyond their borders. The U.S. State Department in November verified that increase with a report showing international enrollment in American colleges and universities has roared back to pre-pamdemic levels seen before the pandemic struck — up 12 percent in the 202-23 academic year.


The resurgence, though, hasn’t materialized for Iowa’s public universities.


Where the UI a decade ago in 2014 reported 2,430 undergraduate international students, it had 350 in the most recent fall of 2023. That has shrunk its undergraduate percent of international students from 11 percent in 2014 to 1.6 percent in 2023.


ISU has seen its undergraduate international count drop from 2,216 in 2014 to 875 in fall 2023. And UNI is reporting an undergraduate international enrollment slip from 487 in 2014 to 103 in 2023.


At the graduate level, international numbers are more promising — with a UI count of 1,116 in 2023, on par with its 1,188 tally a decade ago. Where ISU a decade ago had 1,790 international graduate students in 2014, it had 1,835 in 2023. And UNI’s international graduate count sits at 72 from 139 in 2014.


Enrollment, according to Schmadeke, is “not a factor in the global rankings.”


The UI’s International Programs Dean Russell Ganim said total international enrollment — including graduate and professional students — is starting to tick up. He said drops at the undergraduate level can be expected, given China is sending fewer students abroad.

University of Iowa International Programs Dean Russell Ganim stands for a portrait Jan. 3, 2020. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
“What we are seeing, however, is that Iowa is attracting more international students from a larger and more diverse set of countries,” he said. “As a result, we are intensifying our recruitment efforts in the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, since we believe more students from these regions will eventually come to Iowa.”

‘Can’t be compared’​

Regarding the U.S. News global rankings, Schmadeke stressed the vast difference between them and the more commonly cited national rankings — which use U.S. News-collected data on things including admissions test scores, graduation rates, retention rates, class sizes and financial resources.


“These types of data are not part of the Best Global Universities rankings because such student- and school-specific data can't be compared internationally,” according to guidance from U.S. News. “Data that measures aspects of the undergraduate and graduate experience either is not available because the countries don't have entrance exams similar to the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE and MCAT used in the U.S., or the data is not available in a uniform way that could be used to make international comparisons.”


A methodology breakdown shows 25 percent of the global rankings is based on reputational surveys; 65 percent on factors related to publications, citations and conferences; and 10 percent related to “international collaboration.”


Although U.S. News didn’t report changes in its methodology for the global rankings this year, it did report changes in the number of campuses it ranked, the countries it involved and specific subject areas it assessed.


Across the 2,000-plus universities in 100-plus countries, China tallied the most ranked universities at 396, followed by the United States at 283 and then Japan at 112.


The United States has the most ranked in the top 10 — with seven — including the top three: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. The United Kingdom had the other three in the top 10, including No. 4-ranked Oxford University and the No. 6-ranked University of Cambridge.

UI, ISU peers​

Although many of the United States’ top globally-ranked universities are private institutions, six in the top 21 are public — like UI and ISU. The University of California-Berkeley at No. 4 and the University of Washington at No. 7 are the only public campuses to make the top 10.


The only Big Ten university and UI peer in the top 21 globally was the University of Michigan at No. 19. The UI ranked below all the 10 peer universities assigned to it by regents — with six ranked in the top 100 and all 10 peers ranked in the top 150.


ISU in the global rankings was in the middle of its regent-assigned peer pack — with five ranked better and five ranked lower.

UI, ISU peer rankings​

Here are how the University of Iowa and Iowa State University compare in the new U.S. News & World Report global rankings with the peer campuses regents have assigned to them:

UI peers:

University of Michigan — No. 19

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill — No. 47

Ohio State University — No. 61

University of Minnesota-Minneapolis — No. 63

University of Wisconsin-Madison — No. 74

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign — No. 100

University of Arizona — No. 115

Michigan State University — No. 123

Indiana University-Bloomington — No. 135

University of Utah — No. 150

University of Iowa — No. 225

ISU peers:

Michigan State University — No. 123

Purdue University — No. 167

North Carolina State University — No. 262

Virginia Polytechnic & State University — No. 278

Colorado State University — No. 311

Iowa State University — No. 344

Oregon State University — No. 365

University of Missouri-Columbia — No. 466

University of Nebraska-Lincoln — No. 497

Kansas State University — No. 616

Oklahoma State University — No. 694

Source: Board of Regents, U.S. News & World Report

University of Iowa, Iowa State see big drops in U.S. News global rankings

Both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University lost meaningful ground in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Global Universities Rankings” — which were released Tuesday, revealing a 45-spot slide for the Hawkeyes and an 81-position drop for Iowa State.

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Do they have any right to ever again talk about morals, law and order, and the dignity of the presidency?

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This has to be a Pepsi... She was having sex with the family great dane while the husband was trying to diddle children. Allegedly. Quite the couple.

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Heading to Dells Sun afternoon to weds afternoon. Never been.

Doing Mt Olympus one day.

What are other must dos with 12 and 9 yr old kids?

Go Karts, Mini Golf, and the Arcade is on the list also.

Basically he shows up to a US court, pleads guilty, is sentenced to time served for his imprisonment in the UK then he goes home.

How close will the seeds be to how the Coaches ranked them?
Ten wrestlers rated in the top 33.

Seed, (Coaches Rank),Wrestler, (School)
1. (2) Connor Medberry (WIS)
2. (3) Mike McMullan (NW)
3. (4) Bobby Telford (IA)
4. (6) Adam Coon (MI)
5. (7) James Lawson (PSU)
6. (11) Nick Tavanello (OSU)
7. (14) Spencer Myers (MARY)
8. (15) Mike Kroells (MN)
9. (16) William Smith (RUT)
10. (25) Collin Jensen (NEB)

The wife and I were hiking in Minnesota on Friday and saw a Scarlet Tanager, which in the forest is kind of rare. It landed in a tree near us and stayed stationary for a minute to indulge a picture. We were sidetracked by a trail that had turned into a creek, so we had to backtrack the way we had come, and saw a black bear 50 feet in font of us. It turned to face us, lifted its nose to give us a whiff, and ambled into the woods. It was a young male.
CSB.

Missed this one from a few weeks back.

If you have a relative that is watching MSNBC on the reg, it may be time to have an intervention.

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DAMN those Red Sox!
Just after I have accepted their fate as a mediocre, hustling but under-talented ball club, they pull out a game where there were down 4 in the 8th inning and win it in 9! They are now 6-7 games OVER .500, within single digits now of the hated Yankees…playing well and it’s damn near The 4th of July!
Just a few weeks ago, they were floundering a few games below .500, striking out with great regularity and literally throwing games away with their injured riddled Triple A line-up. Credit to Alex Cora (is there a better manager in MLB?) and his staff for staying the course.Credit a bunch of ball players, playing hard and not giving up.
But DAMN those Red Sox. Now it’s me, MLB Network nightly, my TV, a beer and my swearing from here until the middle of August when they will predictably swoop and race for last place! (again)…

Almost nothing feels better than beating the Goofers and particularly when PJ is the coach.