University of Iowa

17 current students at the University of Iowa are in charge of making final preparations for the variety of activities that will be Homecoming 2021 as members of the executive council.

University of Iowa College of Public Health students Claire Carlson, Sydney Prochaska, and Kasra Zarei recently placed among the top entries in the 2021 Fulbright Canada Post-COVID Challenge.

Fourth-year UI Carver College of Medicine student Pavane Gorrepati publishes a book to educate young readers about alopecia, a condition that can cause childhood hair loss.

Luz Alcala came to the University of Iowa to earn a business degree, but the first-generation student will graduate with so much more.

More than 1,000 miles from her Texas home, University of Iowa student Bianca Robles-Munoz is getting a top-notch education in communication sciences and disorders while also gaining a newfound appreciation for her Latina heritage.

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine student Anthony Young reflects on his 8-week global health elective at the Cacha Medical Spanish Institute in Ecuador.

A University of Iowa PhD candidate working as a research assistant at the Iowa Technology Institute has been selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship Program. Bernice Kubicek was awarded the fellowship to continue work born out of her time with the Ananya Sen Gupta Research Group, which is directed by Sen Gupta, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Kubicek conducts research on sonar autonomous target recognition through the development of feature extraction algorithms that aim to improve the classification and recognition of objects deep underwater.

Molly Hall-Martin, a doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program in the University of Iowa College of Education's Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, has been appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQ).

The main lesson Margorie Gutierrez learned as a student in the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center is to never fear failure.

This fall, the University of Iowa welcomed the most academically accomplished class in its history for the fifth year in a row. The incoming undergraduate class again topped previous records in achievement with a higher average high school grade-point average (GPA), at 3.81, than any previous class.

The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy welcomed its Class of 2025 with the staging of its annual White Coat Ceremony.

272 current University of Iowa students are members of the 2021 Hawkeye Marching Band, one of the "top ten college marching bands in the nation," according to CNN Headline News and one of the Big Ten Conference's marching bands whose halftime show is "worth the watch," according to Sports Illustrated. The 2021 Hawkeye Marching Band - affectionately known as "Band 141" by its membership - will once again be the sound of Iowa Football and the heartbeat of historic Kinnick Stadium at each of the nationally ranked Iowa Hawkeyes' seven home games.

Payton Day, a freshman at the University of Iowa from Naperville, IL, joined a very special club on the Sunday prior to the first day of classes when she addressed her peers at Iowa's annual Convocation, the annual ceremony to welcome the university's news incoming class.

More than 80 University of Iowa bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) students celebrated a significant personal milestone earlier this fall when they participated in the UI College of Nursing's biannual white coat ceremony. The donning of the white coat symbolizes a nursing student's transition to clinical nursing course work and live patient care. The recently white-coated BSN students officially joined a college with a rich tradition of more than 120 years of nursing and a mass of alumni who have impacted health care across the country and around the world.

More than 90 students of the University of Iowa's College of Public Health voluteered to support a group of Iowa City area non-profit and charitable organizations the Friday before the first day of classes. The community service provided the perfect opportunity for the students to get to know their peers a little better.

More than 140 first-year University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine students participated in the 27th annual Arnold P. Gold Foundation White Coat Ceremony earlier this month.

Nine members of the University of Iowa women's gymnasts were named Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-America Award recipients.

A research paper led by University of Iowa graduate student Byungkyu Moon and his mentor Hosin (David) Lee investigating an eco-friendly method for asphalt pavement rehabilitation made the cover of the July 2021 edition of Infrastructures, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 5,300 degrees at the close of the 2021 spring semester.

More than 7,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean's list for the 2021 spring semester.

Manuela Lizarazu of Bogota, Columbia was among the more than 7,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the dean's list for the 2021 spring semester. Lizarazu is double-majoring in biomolecular engineering and neuroscience.

More than 1,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa named to the president's list for the 2021 spring semester.

In a "this-doesn't-happen-in-real-life kind of moment," 19 University of Iowa students get a crash course in the film business, landing a deal for their rewriting of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic.

Fourth-year pharmaceutics graduate student Jackson Russo sees poloxamers as an opportunity to more effectively treat chronic wounds like bedsores and diabetic ulcers.

The Iowa Reading Research Center at the University of Iowa introduces families to assistive technology that may help their children with reading and writing, and Karah Kluck is deeply involved in making it happen.

University of Iowa PharmD student Brittany Nguyen witnessed Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds as she signed into law new legislation that expanded the services pharmacists are able to provide while at the same time expanding access to healthcare for all Iowans. All of Iowa's 99 counties have local pharmacies, but not all have the same access to health care facilities.

More than 130 University of Iowa student-athletes have been named to the 2021 Spring Academic All-Big Ten team. The list includes student-athletes from baseball (17), men's golf (4), women's golf (8), rowing (35), softball (12), men's tennis (6), women's tennis (8), men's track and field (20), and women's track and field (29).

During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Lela Fossett, a first-year student in the UI Carver College of Medicine's master of physician assistant studies program, reflected recently on her heritage and how that has shaped her into who she is today-a physician assistant student who enjoys singing, learning, and helping the community.

A group of pharmacy students led by Sydney Ross spearheaded the creation of a new student organization whose charge is to educate students, develop and support their passions, and provide resources to achieve career goals in industry pharmacy.

Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare has selected current University of Iowa College of Nursing PhD student Hannah Dehner, BSN, RN, as a Veteran's Health Scholar. As part of the 2020-2023 cohort of 75 Jonas Scholars from across the country, Dehner and her fellow student researchers will be focusing on priority topic areas of veterans' health care, including mental health, environmental health, and vision health.