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.

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.

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.

Like many basketball fans, UI students Charlie Ruff and James Micheli participated in an NCAA basketball tournament bracket challenge this spring. But while most such challenges award the winners with a lunch or small cash payoff, Ruff and Micheli won something different—internships.

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.

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.

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.

Find out how the University of Iowa Department of History used social media savvy to raise money during last year’s One Day for Iowa, the 24-hour online give-a-thon.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that a vaccine that effectively reduces the incidence of a parasitic disease in dogs might also help thousands of Iraq war veterans infected with the same disease.

Shawn Gibbs, executive associate dean for academic affairs, interim associate dean for research and graduate studies, and professor of environmental health at the Indiana University School of Public Health–Bloomington, is the fourth finalist for the next University of Iowa College of Public Health dean. He will visit campus March 27–28.