Aiden Bettine, the UI's first Humanities for the Public Good graduate assistant, is creating the Transgender Oral History Project of Iowa to collect, preserve, and celebrate the lives and stories of transgender and gender non-conforming people across Iowa and build a digital archive of transgender history.

Martha Kirby, senior academic advisor in the Department of Political Science received the 2019 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy, which recognizes administrators, staff, or faculty outside of their teaching role who serve as strong and effective advocates for undergraduate students and the undergraduate experience.

Director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program Christopher Merrill was one of 168 winners of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 2019 fellowships. The recipients, announced April 10, were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

Dillon Constant is working with his hometown of Newton, Iowa, through a partnership between the community, the UI, and Grinnell College intended to develop community-based programs that support and promote health and obesity prevention.

Carole Kern, assistant to the executive associate dean for faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, expanded her gardening skills and took the leap to growing food indoors. Find out how you can too!

School of Social Work professor Mercedes Bern-Klug discusses how meeting residents’ social and emotional needs in long term and post-acute care as being fundamental in culture change and person-centered care.

For John and Margo Daniel, pharmacy is truly a family affair. John Daniel, '55 BSPh, opened the Daniel Pharmacy in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1963 with his parents. Now owned and operated by John and his wife, Margo, many of their children are involved at the pharmacy in some capacity.

Leigh Marshall was 16 when her father was diagnosed with cancer. By the end of the month, he died. Marshall, an MFA playwright in the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Iowa, writes plays about her first-hand experience surrounding death.

An international team of scientists, including UI biophysicist Chris Ahern, used a lethal scorpion toxin to capture detailed, 3D pictures of a protein involved in pain. The toxin locks the pain protein into a “pose,” allowing researchers to see, for the first time, several unexpected interactions in how protein works.

Cassie Harrington has been named to serve as the interim student diversity, equity, and inclusion liaison in addition to her current position as assessment and evaluation program coordinator in the college’s student affairs office.

TaJuan Wilson, executive director of Student Programs and Diversity and assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been named the University of Iowa’s new associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion. He will begin on June 28.

The Landscape Services Tree Crew, part of Facilities Management at the University of Iowa, has earned the 2018 Tree Campus USA Award. It's the tenth consecutive year the tree crew has been honored for its care, maintenance and teaching about trees.