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 University of Iowa’s Executive Leadership Academy-Higher Education (ELA)-Higher Education received a 2019 LEAD Award from HR.com for the third consecutive year. The UI’s ELA program ranked second in the nation for Custom Content Programming: Leadership and Organizational Development.

Kedibona “Kedi” Ochs hopes to create a classroom for students that fosters inclusivity and compassion. Ochs, who was recently awarded the spring 2019 Mary Maxine Redmond Scholarship, was also selected as the spring 2019 College of Education commencement speaker.

Erica Cole doesn’t let anything diminish her zest for life. Not even losing a leg. Cole is starting a business that sells custom covers for prosthetic limbs.

Michael Abramoff, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences in the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, received the 2019 Cultivation Corridor Iowa Biotech Leader Award this week as part of the Iowa Biotechnology Association's annual conference.

Nine humanities and humanities-adjacent University of Iowa PhD students have been competitively selected to spend this summer working with local arts and culture organizations on specific projects.

The University of Iowa has been chosen to participate in the 2019–20 inaugural First Forward cohort by the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the Suder Foundation.

More than 4,300 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees at spring 2018 commencement ceremonies, which begin Thursday, May 10, with the College of Pharmacy and end on Friday, May 25, with the College of Dentistry. All other ceremonies will take place May 11–13.

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has named 29 teaching assistants recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Anna Ward, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Biology, has won research funding from the American Genetic Association to reconstruct the evolutionary history wasps that cause a type of tumor on oak trees in North America.