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Make It OK launches 2025 mental health awareness month campaign

The Iowa Healthiest State Initiative announced it is supporting Mental Health Awareness Month this May with the release of the 2025 Make It OK Toolkit. The toolkit includes mental health resources and a series of stories highlighting the mental health journeys of University of Iowa athletes Ethan Hurkett, Payton Sandfort, Kelli McGroarty, Jerquavia Henderson and…
By Business Record Staff | May 2, 2025
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Blank Children’s Hospital announced the naming of the Deb & Bob Pulver Center located at 4055 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines that is home to the STAR & Developmental Center. The building is named in recognition of Deb and the late Bob Pulver. “The Pulver family’s impact on our hospital and the children we…
By Business Record Staff | May 2, 2025
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Local economists weigh in on trade, construction

The Greater Des Moines Partnership hosted an economic outlook panel webinar this week, with three economists weighing in on various business challenges. They discussed how the agriculture industry is faring with tariff changes and what they see coming for trade and other industries, such as construction. Webinar panelists included Chad Hart, an economics professor at…
By Gigi Wood | May 2, 2025
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Business Record 5-2-25

Cover Story: Greg Edwards: A portrait of progress Focus: University Research Read the issue
By Business Record Staff | May 2, 2025
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Greg Edwards: A portrait of progress

Greg Edwards will soon step down as president and CEO of Catch Des Moines after 25 years, saying the time is right for a change. Edwards, 69, came to Des Moines in late 2000, after holding the top job at the Peoria Convention and Visitors Bureau. Before that he worked at the convention and visitor’s…
By Michael Crumb | May 2, 2025
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Fearless Focus recap: Four thoughts on women business owners

By Macey Shofroth | May 2, 2025
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Iowa professors quest for innovation

Universities are hubs of innovation and research and the three state universities in Iowa are no exception.  The Business Record went in search of the cutting-edge research and innovation happening now that could make Iowa’s workforce healthier, safer and more efficient. That research includes one professor’s quest to make a firefighter’s job safer using drones,…
By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025
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Farmers, firefighters can benefit from UNI drone research

Dheryta Jaisinghani, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the University of Northern Iowa, thinks about fire – and helping firefighters – a lot. It started when she was reading an article about fire. Then she watched some YouTube videos. And then last year, her daughter’s classmate lost her house in a…
By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025