Natalia Reyes, an MFA student in the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has received a 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The fellowship will allow Reyes to focus entirely on her writing while at Iowa. She is the second Workshop writer to receive the prestigious award.

Jessica Faselt of Iowa City is one of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition winners, announced April 29. This is one of the most prestigious voice competitions in the world, offering singers the chance to be heard by leading industry professionals and to launch their international careers.

Phuong Nguyen-Hoang, associate professor in the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning and the UI Public Policy Center, received a Curriculum Innovation Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Coalescence Entertainment Inc., a film studio and philanthropic organization owned by two University of Iowa students, received the $2,500 top prize at the Frontier Co-op–Tippie Impact competition.

Eleven University of Iowa students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research, attend graduate school, undertake creative projects, or serve as English teaching assistants abroad in 2018–19. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government.

The University of Iowa has earned the CEO Cancer Gold Standard accreditation from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a nonprofit that recognizes workplaces that are exceptionally committed to reducing the risk of cancer among employees.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld shares a message to spring 2018 graduates and the greater Hawkeye community, speaking about his pride in the graduating class and his hope for the future.

Cole, Lavezzo are named Collegiate Scholars; Baalrud, Bond are named Dean’s Scholars; Adams, Bognar are named Distinguished Associate Professors of Instruction

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa has announced two winners of its 2018 Outstanding Research and Public Engagement Award: Associate Professor Cornelia Lang, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Associate Professor Maurine Neiman, of the Department of Biology.

A team of Tippie College of Business Iowa MBA students won this year’s third annual MBA Business Analytics Case Competition, working to address a real-world business problem.