Education

The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service voted Wednesday to distribute more than $8 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service to support AmeriCorps national service members serving within organizations across …

Simpson College has received a $586,784 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide four-year scholarships and other support for 15 students to study the sciences.

The award, given through the Foundation’s S-STEM program, …

Thirty-one Iowa students received top honors and recognition last week at the 2015 Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland. The award recipients were among 67 students who represented Iowa …

Iowa is among 27 states that will receive part of $138 million in emergency grants, the U.S. Department of Labor said today. Part of Iowa’s $5.25 million grant will finance a joint program between Iowa Workforce Development …

Journalists from around the nation will fly to Drake University this next week for a specialized reporting “boot camp” on how to cover Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest. “Nominating a President 2016: How to Cover the …

The Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. on Monday dedicated a new 33,000-square-foot conference center with a 250-seat auditorium, nine multipurpose meeting rooms, a video conferencing room, dining services and reception areas. Using the latest technology, the …

Outgoing Drake University President David Maxwell has been named to the Grinnell College board of trustees. Grinnell also announced that Patricia Jipp Finkelman, a 1980 graduate of Grinnell and a former health care policy and …

Two Iowa State University economists dispute the common contention that a skills gap among potential workers is the reason companies struggle to fill positions.

Dave Swenson and Liesl Eathington say their analysis of data …