University of Iowa

The University of Iowa sport and recreation management program, which emphasizes experiential learning, in February saw eight students and an instructor travel to Super Bowl LVI to help move fans to and from SoFi Stadium.

Senior Kevin Kato has worked for two years in the lab of E. Dale Abel, whose journey as a scientist has taken him from the West Indies to Oxford to Harvard to Iowa, where he leads diabetes research efforts. One constant in Abel's career has been quality mentorship, and he aims to pay it forward.

A University of Iowa graduate student in physics has been selected to conduct research at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facility. Lucas Beving studies low-temperature plasmas in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is one of 62 graduate students from across the nation selected for DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.

A new externship program introduces Iowa law students to the nation's capital and helps them find careers in and around the federal government.

More than 100 Iowa City-area elementary school students participated in Healthy LifeStars, an initiative from the University of Iowa College of Public Health staffed by current UI students that fights childhood obesity by encouraging students to be more active and eat more nutritious food. Childhood obesity has become a serious public health issue in the U.S., as more and more children are classified as significantly overweight. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the number of obese children in the United States between the ages of 6 and 19 has tripled since the 1970s, rising to 20% in 2015. In Iowa, about 18% of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese, according to 2018 data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Former Iowa crew teammates Taylor Williams and Kennedy Voss wanted to take part in Semester at Sea through the University of Iowa's study abroad program in spring 2019. But they didn't know how they were going to pay for it. The best friends were inspired to make no-slip sport headbands and start a business called Wanderlust Wraps to raise money for their trip

Former University of Iowa crew teammates Taylor Williams and Kennedy Voss wanted to take part in Semester at Sea through the University of Iowa's study abroad program in spring 2019. But they didn't know how they were going to pay for it. The best friends were inspired to make no-slip sport headbands and start a business called Wanderlust Wraps to raise money for their trip.

Arches National Park is a place of serene, mystical beauty: a rugged collection of breathtaking natural rock formations and ancient sandstone arches that can forever change the way people look at life. But the Utah park has in recent years started to change too many lives. Looking to alleviate some of the stress on the park's infrastructure, the National Park Service worked this spring with four University of Iowa students in the Tippie College of Business full-time MBA program to develop a new tour bus-management strategy.