A team made up of Tippie College of Business full-time M.B.A. students Weilong (Jade) Zhao, Dan Carp, and Farhan Ahmed finished in the top 8 of the Cerebration MBA Case Competition and advances to the final level of competition next month in Singapore. The competition started with 601 teams.

Kira Pasquesi was accepted as a 2015 Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellow by Imagining America.

Casey Spoden, a full-time Iowa M.B.A. student at the Tippie College of Business, was part of a team that won the PepsiCo Invitational M.B.A. Business Competition at TCU’s Neeley School of Business in September.

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Faculty Research Engineer Sarah Vigmostad is one of 70 engineering educators named to National Academy of Engineering symposium.

The University of Iowa will host a symposium on Oct. 17 to honor physics professor Don Gurnett, who has taught and been engaged in space science at the UI for the past 50 years. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Bruce Harreld becomes the University of Iowa’s 21st president Nov. 2. In this letter to the campus community, he addresses his interest in and approach to the job.

Gregory Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, was awarded a $118,289 grant from the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration.

Employees who engage in wellness programs at the UI have lower health care costs and report greater workplace satisfaction. The university, which boasts an annual 2.37:1 return on its investment in wellness initiatives, is receiving recognition for its support of employee wellness.

Mechanical engineering PhD student Robert Hart won first prize in American Society for Composites conference.

The Superfund Research Program at the University of Iowa (isrp) has received a 5-year renewal of funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health. The isrp is a joint endeavor involving basic, mechanistic, and applied research projects in biomedical and environmental research areas addressing semivolatile polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The University of Iowa Public Policy Center recently made changes to its Program Areas and Program leadership. The Center is pleased to announce four new directors.

Nicole Grosland and Ching-Long Lin, two faculty members in the UI College of Engineering, have been selected for leadership programs.