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.

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.

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.

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.

The department is one of the oldest and largest programs of its kind and has been training students and serving clients with speech, language, and hearing disorders for more than 60 years.

Today, as a second-year dental student at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry, Malachai Zeitner says he’s grateful to be laying the groundwork for a future that is both service oriented and financially stable.

When Grace Moore’s braces came off and she saw the results, she knew she wanted to pursue dentistry. Now, as her graduation nears, Moore says she looks forward to finally putting on her white coat and beginning a career she hopes will take her back to her rural roots.

Paige Jones got an early start in dentistry. Not only did she pull all of her own loose baby teeth, but all of her cousins’ as well. Although Jones has a few more years to go before she graduates from the UI College of Dentistry, she’s excited about her future.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, native Ebosetale Okoruwa reflects on how far he’s come since he started dentistry school at the University of Iowa, a path that has allowed him to learn from nationally recognized professors and researchers.

The UI’s MADE program harnesses the existing capabilities of faculty and staff, as well as specialized university manufacturing and prototyping facilities, to create a “virtual” medical device company. MADE provides a system for bringing innovative but inexpensive medical inventions into production.

Four University of Iowa debaters won a national title March 18 at the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament.