Archive for May 2016
Artists McCasland, Kabel honored by Arts Festival
Brice McCasland, a Texas mixed media artist, is the featured artist for this year’s 2016 Des Moines Arts Festival and his artwork “Our Liberties We Prize” was unveiled Thursday evening as the commemorative poster for …
Read MoreIowa City company receives $1.4 million health institute grant
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Behavioral Diagnostics Inc. of Iowa City has been awarded a $1.4 million grant to expand development of a new alcohol detection test based on DNA. The money from the National Institutes of Health …
Read MoreIowa City company receives $1.4 million health institute grant
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Behavioral Diagnostics Inc. of Iowa City has been awarded a $1.4 million grant to expand development of a new alcohol detection test based on DNA. The money from the National Institutes of Health …
Read MoreLarassa Kabel’s art to be on DART bus
The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation has commissioned artist Larassa Kabel to create a design to be wrapped around a large DART bus, as part of the foundation’s Project Spaces initiative. Kabel’s design, the fourth in a series …
Read MoreVilsack plans to return to Des Moines after his term as ag secretary ends
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to return to Des Moines when President Barack Obama leaves office, The Des Moines Register reported. “We’ve had a house in Des Moines for a while, and we have three grandchildren, …
Read MoreValley student gets perfect ACT score
NOTEBOOK: Did you know: Tomorrow Plan grant origins
Chalk this up to the “did you know” file. The Tomorrow Plan is entering year three of implementation, but it might not have ever taken off if not for the keen grant-seeking eye of Aaron Todd. Todd, now the …
Read MoreSuit accuses Wellmark of fraud, breach of contract
Suit accuses Wellmark of fraud, breach of contract
Water quality leaders meet to accept Vilsack’s challenge to ‘think big’