The University of Iowa chapter of Beta Alpha Psi has been named a Superior Chapter, the national accounting honor society’s highest recognition.

The Carver Medical Device Design Laboratory is outfitted with the same state-of-the-art technology that students will use in future jobs in commercial labs. College of Engineering officials say the experience of working in the lab will give students an edge in the job market.

Members of the University of Iowa community were honored at the UI’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet on Oct. 10, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources.

Artsy lauds the University of Iowa’s art history master’s program for its ability to give students a “broad, comprehensive grounding in global art history.”

A curriculum developed at the University of Iowa that teaches STEM concepts to high school students will be used during the Day of Design, a national STEM education program, held on Oct. 6.

Katharine M. Broton, assistant professor in the University of Iowa College of Education, will share a grant from the Kresge Foundation to study solutions to student homelessness and hunger.

Delores Grauer, Kathleen McKeen, and François Abboud are the UI’s three longest continually employed people in its three employee categories: professional and scientific, merit, and faculty. With more than 160 years of combined experience, they credit the university and its people for the length of their careers.

University of Iowa spin-off Viewpoint Molecular Targeting has recently been awarded a $2 million Phase II National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research award to support development of a new treatment for metastatic melanoma.

University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $12.4 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research. The UI–Mayo program is the nation's longest-standing lymphoma SPORE.

Dale Eric Wurster will receive an award for scientific research and be installed as president-elect of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in November.