The versatile Herald Stark Opera Studio in the Voxman Music Building can transform from a classroom to a rehearsal space to a performance venue.

Sandra McGee, a Des Moines native and clinical assistant professor in the UI School of Social Work, responded to a series of fatal police shootings of black men by convening community forums that enhanced relationships between law enforcement and the African American community in Des Moines.

Five MFA students in the famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop came to the UI as teenagers to attend the Iowa Young Writers Studio, a summer camp for high school student writers. They talk about the experiences that have stayed with them.

The Campus Recreation and Wellness Center’s Wellness Services area provides many services, including nutrition consultation. Faculty, staff, and students can come to Wellness Services for support as they pursue their health goals.

Faculty, staff, and students in the UI School of Music and Department of Chemistry teamed up to turn physics and chemistry equipment into musical instruments—a project that culminated in a unique and impressive performance.

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.