Alumni Scott Beck (BA ’07, communication studies) and Bryan Woods (BA ’07, communication studies) can add a blockbuster opening weekend to their résumés. The screenwriters of "A Quiet Place," which topped the box office in its opening weekend, discuss their influential time at UI.

Andrew Forbes, associate professor in the UI Department of Biology, discusses the inordinate number of wasps in the world. Forbes, Robin Bagley, Marc Beer, Alaine Hippee, and Heather Widmayer—all from the UI—authored a paper arguing that wasps probably boast a greater array of species than beetles, the long-held favorites.

Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has appointed Lena Hill Dean of the College. Her last day at the University of Iowa will be May 25. Melissa Shivers will serve as interim chief diversity officer.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld has appointed Dan Matheson the new chair of the Presidential Committee on Athletics. Matheson replaces Liz Hollingworth, who served two years as chair and will begin a two-year term as a faculty athletics representative on the committee.

As experimental filmmaker and UI professor Christopher Harris begins work on his most ambitious project yet, he says he’s fortunate to have found a university community that embraces him and his work.

University of Iowa leaders announce the renewal of a $21 million grant of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Iowa MBA program’s student-managed Henry Fund investment portfolio was recently named the winner of its class in the GAME Forum, the largest student-managed investment competition in the world.

Lilián Sánchez, vice president of University of Iowa Student Government and a first-generation student, has helped organize the inaugural First-Generation Summit to help others overcome obstacles she faced as the first person in her family to attend college.

Faculty resignations decreased at the University of Iowa in fiscal year 2017, dropping from 4 percent to 3.1 percent. Medical faculty continue to comprise the largest portion of resignations, while most resigning faculty accepted a position at another educational institution.

Edith Parker, professor and head of community and behavioral health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, is the fifth finalist for the next University of Iowa College of Public Health dean. She will participate in on-campus interviews April 2 and 3.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld discusses some of the exceptional research programs housed in the Center for Computer Aided Design.

University of Iowa College of Public Health researcher Keith Mueller discusses the economic challenges facing rural pharmacies, 12 percent of which went out of business between 2004 and 2014.