UFG Insurance Continues Boom in Downtown Cedar Rapids
Every company has a story and ours begins in the 1940s with the vision of Scott McIntyre Sr., a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, businessman. McIntyre had the ambition to form a…
Coming Home to ICR: Emily Ciccariello
When I moved away from Cedar Rapids, it was pre-9/11, the iPod was still an Apple secret, and MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc, did not exist. Fast-forward 18 years: I’ve…
ACT Extends the Boundaries of Educational Technology, Leveraging Iowa City Roots
Imagine being a student in rural Iowa in the early 1900s. Roads were made of dirt. There were 12,000 one-room schoolhouses scattered across the state. Not only were there no…
Why I Came Back to Iowa: Dana Larson
Dana Larson It seems like there are three kinds of Iowans: Those who grew up here and moved away, finding success elsewhere, praised for their Midwestern work ethic; those who…
Educators and Industry Partner to Support Computer Science Education
Computers are everywhere and changing every industry on the planet, yet fewer than half of all schools in our country teach computer science. When computer science is offered, classes tend…