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Keokuk Projects
2019-2020
Child Neglect in Keokuk - Systems Mapping and Advocacy through a Legal Lens
College of Law students in the Community Empowerment Law Project worked with Keokuk officials to map the existing system for addressing child neglect in the community, and to create a local advocacy strategy to increase system transparency...
Engage and Promote Keokuk
Students from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication created a strategic communication plan for increasing community pride and volunteerism in Keokuk. The City of Keokuk, located in the southeastern most tip of Iowa at the confluence of...
Keokuk - Lead and Copper Utility Mapping
As part of the ICIGO student organization within the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, students created maps of lead and copper utility lines in Keokuk. The identification of lead and copper service lines has risen to the top...
Keokuk - Lee County's Chatfield Park Campground Upgrades
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students provided designs and cost estimates for improvements in Lee County's Chatfield Park Campground. Lee County Conservation is in the process of updating...
Keokuk - Schools Lead Testing and Remediation
The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC), through its Grants to Schools Program, partnered with the Keokuk Community School District to test for lead in school drinking water and provide assistance for...
Keokuk - Southeast Iowa Development Center Marketing Recommendations
Students from the Tippie College of Business Marketing Institute developed marketing strategies for the Southeast Iowa Development Center, a new high-tech facility in Keokuk designed to serve as a business incubator for emerging companies. In 2016...
Keokuk Branding & Style Guide
Students in the School of Art & Art History Graphic Design course developed a new branding and style guide for Keokuk. In January of 2009, Keokuk adopted a central brand identity with a Branding & Style Guide. This was developed in...
Keokuk Downtown Historic Building Restoration Engineering & Design
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students created designs for refurbishing three commercial structures in downtown Keokuk. The City of Keokuk owns three adjacent commercial structures in downtown...
Keokuk Downtown Redevelopment Plan
As part of their capstone project, second-year graduate students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning created a redevelopment plan for downtown Keokuk, Iowa. The main goals of the plan were to create a sustainable redevelopment plan to...
Keokuk Downtown/Riverfront Connection Engineering & Design
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students create designs for redevelopment of the bluff and open space between downtown Keokuk and the Mississippi River, so that the downtown district is better...
Keokuk Film Profiles
Students in Nonfiction Film created short film profiles of Keokuk residents, with the goal of telling stories of individuals who are working to make a difference in their community and are contributing to its vitality and growth. Students in the...
Keokuk Fitness Trail - Trail Engineering and Design
Civil & Engineering and Sport & Recreation Management students provided design alternatives, cost estimates, and fitness recommendations for a proposed fitness trail connecting several community facilities and amenities in Keokuk. The...
Keokuk Housing & Homelessness Policy Briefings
Students in the Department of Rhetoric class Public Policy and Persuasion developed policy briefings for Keokuk community partners, with the broad goal of helping to ensure safe, sanitary, and secure housing options for Keokuk residents. The City of...
Keokuk Housing Insecurity Study
Graduate students in the School of Social Work conducted a study to better understand the pervasiveness, causes, and consequences of housing insecurity in Keokuk. The City of Keokuk, located in the southeastern most tip of Iowa at the confluence of...
Keokuk Library Foundation - Grant Search to support Library Park
Students in the course Non-Profit Organizational Effectiveness worked with representatives of the Keokuk Library Foundation to find external grants that could meet the organization's funding priorities.
Keokuk Main Street / State Highway Study
As part of the Planning Sustainable Transportation Course at the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning, students examined possible design alternatives for Main Street (US Route 218) in downtown Keokuk. For much of the 20th Century...
Keokuk Marina, Boat Ramps & Parking Lot Design
As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students designed a new marina with boat ramps and a parking lot in the city of Keokuk, whoch would provide an additional access point for residents and vistors to...
Keokuk Pathways and Green Streets Plan
As part of their capstone project, second-year graduate students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning created a plan outlining potential opportunities for conversion of low-traffic residential streets to non-vehicular greenways, in...
Keokuk Public Library Bickel Collection Access
Graduate students in the School of Library & Information Science partnered with Keokuk Public Library staff to build a database to extend access to the Bickel Collection housed at the library. The Bickel Collection, comprised of 42 scrapbooks...
Keokuk-Hamilton Dam Museum Mural
Grant Wood Public Art resident Ali Hval worked closely with the Keokuk-Hamilton Dam Museum leadership to identify themes and imagery included in a mural on the side of their new home, 428 Main Street, Keokuk, including the design and installation of...
Lee County Conservation and Foundation Marketing & Branding
Juniors in the Tippie College of Business Marketing Institute developed brand alternatives for Lee County Conservation and its partner organization Three Rivers Conservation Foundation, with a goal of modernizing the images of the organizations and...