Spotlight
Dental student puts EMT training into action during snorkeling trip
Second-year University of Iowa College of Dentistry student Ingrid Streitz helped revive a crew member during a snorkeling excursion in Japan, an experience that reinforced for her the importance of CPR training, access to AEDs, and being willing to act.
Student success
Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields. This level of excellence positions Iowa as the best public university for writing and communication.
Dental student puts EMT training into action during snorkeling trip
Second-year University of Iowa College of Dentistry student Ingrid Streitz helped revive a crew member during a snorkeling excursion in Japan, an experience that reinforced for her the importance of CPR training, access to AEDs, and being willing to act.
Iowa pharmacy student turns training into lifesaving action
Kelsey Rook’s experience demonstrates how University of Iowa students are gaining practical skills they can use to make a difference in communities across the state.
Health care
Meet Kid Captain Lily Lee
When Lily Lee was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, no treatment existed. Months later, a newly approved therapy changed her future — and made her the first patient at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital to receive it.
Meet Kid Captain Beau Harvey
After years of surgeries and complications from a rare congenital heart defect, Beau Harvey received a donor heart — and a new chance at the active life he had long hoped for — at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Meet Kid Captain Charlie Price
After a rare blood disorder threatened Charlie Price’s life, a bone marrow transplant helped him get back to being a kid. Now, he’s helping give back to UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Research
IIHR solves stormwater challenges for Iowa and the world
IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering at the University of Iowa has partnered with Iowa towns and major cities in the nation and world to manage their stormwater challenges, with the goal to efficiently discharge excess flows that can harm the environment and endanger people.
Turning rare cancer research into real hope
When Ron Muhlenbruck was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2005, he came to the University of Iowa — then a rising leader in neuroendocrine tumor research. Twenty years later, Iowa remains the only U.S. institution to receive specialized federal funding twice for this rare cancer.
A focus on precision medicine therapies for migraines
University of Iowa researchers are working to connect migraine patients with the treatments that will actually work for them.
Always a Hawkeye: Alumni stories
Hawkeye connections help Boettger build the Stally brand
Former Hawkeye football standout Ike Boettger is using lessons learned at Iowa — and support from the Hawkeye network — to grow Stally, his Iowa-based apparel company.
New graduate returns to Iowa to finish what he started
More than 40 years after leaving while just credits short of a degree, Tim Dickson fulfills a promise to his mother by returning to the University of Iowa — thanks to an online program that finally made finishing possible from afar.
Hawkeye roots shape a NASA career
Before leading some of NASA’s most ambitious missions, Jim Green found his trajectory at the University of Iowa — where a series of “gravity assists” set him on a path to the stars.
Community impact
Iowa pharmacy student turns training into lifesaving action
Kelsey Rook’s experience demonstrates how University of Iowa students are gaining practical skills they can use to make a difference in communities across the state.
Mobile clinic expands addiction care in rural Iowa
University of Iowa Health Care’s MAT (Medication for Addiction Treatment) Mobile Clinic is helping Iowans access life-saving treatment while also training local providers to continue the work long after the van drives away.
Hawkeyes make a difference all along RAGBRAI route (and beyond)
From the west to the east, the University of Iowa and its alumni provide expertise in areas as varied as health care, education, and law.
Faculty and staff features
Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields. This level of excellence positions Iowa as the best public university for writing and communication.
UI researcher tackles rare eye cancer through novel approaches
Using zebrafish, UI professor Colin Kenny studies uveal melanoma to better understand how it forms and spreads — and how it can be treated. His dedication to research comes from what he calls the “sheer thrill of discovery.”
Iowa researcher calls CF breakthroughs ‘unfathomable’
Michael Welsh could not have imagined the life-altering treatments for cystic fibrosis that would grow from the discoveries made in his University of Iowa lab. Once considered a fatal childhood disease, CF now can be managed with drugs that significantly extend patients’ lives.
Athletics
Meet Kid Captain Lily Lee
When Lily Lee was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, no treatment existed. Months later, a newly approved therapy changed her future — and made her the first patient at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital to receive it.
Meet Kid Captain Beau Harvey
After years of surgeries and complications from a rare congenital heart defect, Beau Harvey received a donor heart — and a new chance at the active life he had long hoped for — at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Meet Kid Captain Charlie Price
After a rare blood disorder threatened Charlie Price’s life, a bone marrow transplant helped him get back to being a kid. Now, he’s helping give back to UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.