10 Dec 2020

University of Iowa Doctor of Pharmacy Students Saluted for Their Commitment to Service and Leadership

By Rick Klatt

 

New Pharmacy Building exteriors at The University of Iowa

IOWA CITY, IOWA (December 10, 2020) — More than 70 current Doctor of Pharmacy students at the University of Iowa recently received the UI College of Pharmacy's Student Pharmacist ExCELS Award. The aware is presented to students for their commitment to service and leadership.

Logan Mougin of Davenport, IA 52807 (Pharmacy class: Class of 2021)

08 Dec 2020

DeWitt's KayLee Kuehl, University of Iowa Classmates Collaborate on New Take of Literary Classic "The Great Gatsby"

By Rick Klatt

 

IOWA CITY, IOWA (December 8, 2020) — In 1925, F Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, a work that would come to be regarded as a defining novel of the 20th century, finding itself a perennial inclusion in high-school curricula and the subject of numerous stage and film interpretations.

20 Nov 2020

Davenport's Ashley Johnson Helps Lead Food Bank at Iowa through Multiple Challenges in Record-Setting Year

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (November 20, 2020) — Ashley Johnson of Davenport, Iowa (52804), is one of eight University of Iowa students on the executive committee for the Food Pantry at Iowa, a student-run organization whose mission is to provide nutritious food and necessities for University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff in need, and to fight food-insecurity through education and advocacy.

28 Oct 2020

Contact-Tracer Carly O'Connor of De Witt, Iowa: Working to Find "Patient Zero"

By Rick Klatt

 

26 Sep 2020

2020 Homecoming Court Announced as Homecoming Week Approaches

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 26, 2020) — The University of Iowa has announced the names of the 12 students named to the 2021 Homecoming Court. The UI will be celebrating homecoming virtually in 2021 with Homecoming Week officially kicking off on Monday, October 28. To review the scheduled events and activities, click 

16 Sep 2020

Students Shape the Future of the University of Iowa by Participation on Charter Committees

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 16, 2020) — More than 40 current students at the University of Iowa are helping to shape the future of the UI by serving on one of 18 charter committees that advise institutional leadership on topics ranging from diversity and teaching to research and intercollegiate athletics.

15 Sep 2020

Local Students Help Shape the Future of The University of Iowa by Participation on Charter Committees

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 15, 2020) — More than 40 current students at the University of Iowa are helping to shape the future of the UI by serving on one of 18 charter committees that advise institutional leadership on topics ranging from diversity and teaching to research and intercollegiate athletics.

04 Sep 2020

Bettendorf's Ryan Longenecker, Undergraduate Student Government Ready to Tackle 2020-21 Academic Year at The University of Iowa

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 4, 2020) — University of Iowa shared governance bodies elect new leadership each spring semester. Two of the four groups are led by students at the UI: Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG).

01 Sep 2020

Entrepreneurs in Africa Save the Day for Iowa interns

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 1, 2020) — Quick-thinking by University of Iowa Tippie College of Business leaders arranges last-minute summer work experiences for students whose internships vanished in the pandemic haze.

Brandon Parejko of Bettendorf (52722)

Joey Schuler of Le Claire (52753)

Jack Wells of Bettendorf (52722)

Benjamin Gimenez of Davenport (52806)

02 Jul 2020

Waterloo's Darcell Stokes: Iowa Experience Strengthens the Desire to Help Others

By Rick Klatt

IOWA CITY, IOWA (July 2, 2020) — Darcell Stokes grew up with a keen sense of helping people.

Stokes, who graduated from the University of Iowa in May, was raised in Waterloo, Iowa, by parents who are social workers. She and her siblings regularly helped their parents in myriad ventures — working at soup kitchens, pitching in at polling drives, or volunteering at food pantries.

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