Vanessa Miller is a Reporter at gazettedotcom. With a focus on education, higher education, and legal affairs, she covers topics ranging from campus life and university research to civil lawsuits and public education. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Moline Dispatch Publishing Company, The Daily Nonpareil, and The Gazette | Cedar Rapids.
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Vanessa Miller's coverage primarily revolves around local news, with a strong focus on government announcements and press releases. She frequently covers topics related to education, healthcare, legislation, construction, and automotive industries in Iowa.
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By: Vanessa Miller
Citing pressure from the Iowa Legislature, a divided Board of Regents on Tuesday approved two new policies inserting itself into aspects of campus operations it hasn't before: what's being taught in university classrooms and who university presidents are hiring.
By: Vanessa Miller
With the U.S. losing ground in the higher education space to rising universities in parts of Asia and Latin America, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa have slid in the 2026-27 U.S. News & World Report global university rankings.
By: Vanessa Miller
The U.S. Court of Appeals has delivered the final nail in the coffin for MercyOne’s attempt to invalidate the Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy plan that left it — and it alone — vulnerable to a lawsuit the former hospital since has filed.
By: Vanessa Miller
Kirkwood Community College this November will ask voters across 18 counties in Eastern Iowa to approve an $88 million bond issue to update its aging Cedar Rapids campus that’s seen program demands – as well as enrollment – growing of late.
Too many moms put caring for their baby’s needs immediately — even while driving — above known safe-driving precautions, according to a new study from Hamann and a team of UI researchers examining seat belt habits among pregnant and postpartum women.
By: Vanessa Miller
Jeffrey Ford’s near-death experience was the start of an ongoing hero’s journey where the “hero” isn’t only Ford, but the doctors who saved him, the family who’ve cared for him, and the wife who gave him her kidney when his began to fail.
By: Vanessa Miller
With the U.S. losing ground in the higher education space to rising universities in parts of Asia and Latin America, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa have slid in the 2026-27 U.S. News & World Report global university rankings.
Thanks to nearly $50 million in additional annual federal funding Iowa secured last week to expand physician residency training programming statewide, University of Iowa Health Care has announced capacity to train an additional 76 physicians.
Iowa State University has settled a records-related lawsuit over its football game in Ireland last year – a game the Cyclones would have had to pay $8 million to cancel, new documents made public by the settlement reveal.
By: Vanessa Miller
Kirkwood Community College this November will ask voters across 18 counties in Eastern Iowa to approve an $88 million bond issue to update its aging Cedar Rapids campus that’s seen program demands – as well as enrollment – growing of late.
