Seven members of the University of Iowa family will be recognized during the Hawkeye Distinguished Veterans Awards on Nov. 15.

Matt Slykhuis saved the lives of injured soldiers by flying them off the battlefields of Afghanistan. A career change to Army hospital administration has brought the Cedar Falls native to the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business to study for a Master in Accountancy.

Tierney Bates, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, is the third finalist for the position of University of Iowa associate vice president/dean of students. He will visit campus Wednesday, Nov. 7.

University of Iowa students Hira Mustafa and Abby Haynes took home the top honor at the 16th Annual Collegiate Ethics Case Competition hosted by the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.

Three nursing faculty members were honored for their career achievements at the American Academy of Nursing's annual policy conference Nov. 1–3 in Washington, D.C.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that Iowa could face a critical shortage of physician assistants in the coming decade as an aging PA workforce begins to retire.

Desirée Rieckenberg, senior associate dean and director of the Office of the Dean of Students at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, is the second finalist for the position of University of Iowa associate vice president/dean of students. She will visit campus Monday, Nov. 5.

A new UI partnership with the Tippie College and College of Public Health provides an education in business and leadership basics to students in the College of Pharmacy so they can learn how to manage a health care business in their careers.

President Harreld asks members of campus to participate in National First-Generation College Celebration events that will take place across campus Nov. 5–9.

A new paper by researchers in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa highlights the brain's changing response to hypertension and advances made in the field to date. The authors are Alan Kim Johnson, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, and Baojian Xue, associate research scientist.

The University of Iowa is the 159th best research university in the world, with two disciplines ranked in the top 100, according to “U.S. News & World Report’s” latest ranking of top global universities.

The city of Dubuque and the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa are helping the city’s residents overcome flood damage through an innovative program that provides physical upgrades to homes, as well as social, educational, and health care support.