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Marvin Pomerantz of Des Moines, prominent University of Iowa alumnus and benefactor, Iowa business leader, and former president of the Iowa Board of Regents, died Thursday at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. In honor of Pomerantz, the UI will fly the flag atop the Old Capitol at half-staff today.

Marvin Pomerantz, a prominent Des Moines businessman who advised Republican governors and presidential candidates for the past 40 years, died Thursday at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City. One of only six Iowans inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, he also played an influential role in Iowa education.

While veterans wait for Congress to work out an updated version of the GI Bill that will survive President Bush’s veto pen, the University of Iowa has created a Veterans Grant Program to help fill the financial gap that many veterans face with existing GI Bill benefits.

This morning University of Iowa President Sally Mason announced the appointment of Susan J. Curry as the new dean of the College of Public Health. Curry, currently direct of the Institute for Health Research and Policy and professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at [...]

Attention, all UI students, staff, faculty and visitors: Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em — at least while you can. University of Iowa President Sally Mason approved a policy Monday that will make the UI campus entirely smoke-free by July 1, 2009.

“A smoke-free campus will provide a healthier environment for employees, students, and other constituents,” [...]

It’s official! On Aug. 1 female biologist Sally Mason will become the next president of the University of Iowa.
This marks the fourth announcement of a new leader at the university in the past 20 years. Perhaps that’s the reason Mason is receiving $100,000 more per year than her predecessor.