Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Kristen Radtke, a 2012 graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, won the 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Given annually by the Whiting Foundation, the grant awards $40,000 to a writer "in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction."

Ted Abel has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology.

Three University of Iowa scientists in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI) have received NARSAD Young Investigator grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for projects focused on addiction, depression, and brain imaging. The two-year, $70,000 grants help promising young scientists launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry.

A project designed to improve safety on one of campus’ most heavily-used pedestrian walkways will begin this month.

What started as a 24-year-old just asking for beer money during the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game on Sept. 14 ended Tuesday with nearly $3 million raised for the UI Stead Family Children's Hospital.

The New York Times features research on a parasitic wasp by Department of Biology Associate Professor Andrew Forbes and graduate student Anna Ward. The crypt-keeper wasp preys on at least seven other unrelated species of wasps to better ensure its survival. Biology Letters published the paper.

Sue Hettmansperger, professor emeritus in the School of Art and Art History, will present a one-person exhibition of her artwork (painting and collage) at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

People are more apt to make mistakes when they switch from one task to another, which could lead to catastrophe if it happens in space. A UI researcher is using a NASA grant to help astronauts reduce the amount of time it takes to focus on a new task.

New Scientist features a study by Department of Biology associate professor Andrew Forbes and graduate student Anna Ward that report a type of parasitic wasp, the crypt-keeper wasp, preys on at least seven other, unrelated species of wasps to better ensure its survival.

Cornelia Lang, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, speaks to The Atlantic about mysterious filaments emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

University of Iowa has been invited by The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to join the CPED’s consortium of 115 institutional members. The UI will work with other consortium members to redesign professional practice preparation for the improvement of PK-20 education and the organizations that support it.