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
IOWA CITY — A new University of Iowa research initiative — involving NASA satellite data and water-monitoring systems — aims to develop a forecasting and early-warning system for nitrate levels in Iowa rivers and streams, potentially serving as a tool in the state's fight against its rising cancer rate.
By: Vanessa Miller
With 16 percent of the state’s hospital jobs, UIHC in 2025 played an outsized role in providing “community benefits” to Iowans in the form of immunizations, screenings, outreach, and charity care — when a hospital treats patients who can’t pay.
After Iowa’s Board of Regents in 2015 tapped Huron Consulting to help with a systemwide efficiency review, regents again have hired Huron for its 2026 version of a “revenue enhancement” study for a $1.6 million fee.
By: Vanessa Miller
Crisis-management lessons from the 2008 flood have come in handy as Cate Dicharry takes over as director of UI’s famed International Writing Program only months after the U.S. Department of State pulled nearly $1 million in federal grants.
By: Vanessa Miller
‘There's no value in being grim about it,' she says of lost federal funding Updated
By: Vanessa Miller
IOWA CITY — At a pay phone 25 years ago in the exclusive picturesque Mount Athos in Greece — center of the Eastern Orthodox Church and home to 20-some monasteries
Iowa’s public universities initially were overseen by separate boards, but lawmakers felt that was “inefficient, often duplicative and promoted rivalry among the institutions.” Replacing the three with one board aimed to help promote efficiency.
By: Vanessa Miller
Just over a decade after Iowa's Board of Regents in 2015 tapped Huron Consulting to help with its systemwide efficiency review — which ended up costing $5.5 million — the board again has hired Huron for its 2026 version of a “revenue enhancement and productivity study,” or REAPS.
By: Vanessa Miller
University of Iowa Health Care is supportive of a new law banning it from continuing its long-running practice of making doctors sign non-compete agreements upon hire, according to UIHC Vice President for Medical Affairs Denise Jamieson.
After Iowa’s Board of Regents in 2015 tapped Huron Consulting to help with a systemwide efficiency review, regents again have hired Huron for its 2026 version of a “revenue enhancement” study for a $1.6 million fee.
