Morgan Brittain (16BA, 20MA), a PhD candidate in American studies at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, ...

Abigail Crabtree (21BA, 26JD) left a law fair in 2021 disappointed—her top choice, the University of Iowa College of Law, told her it didn’t have the specific environmental law classes and research ...

Iowa native Scott Dunn reflects on his unconventional career path, which began in medicine and has taken him around the world as a pianist and conductor. Scott Dunn (75BM, 81MD)—an internationally ...

The former Iowa football and NFL star opens up about brain trauma and why he now advocates for psychedelic research. Robert Gallery (03BA) could have said nothing. The larger-than-life Iowa football ...

Iowa experts race to save one of the world’s few remaining cycloramas, which depicts the endangered bird haven Laysan Island in its heyday. In the softly lit space, each bird seems primed to burst ...

He might be a renowned archaeologist who appears frequently on TV as an expert on everything from ancient Jerusalem to Ancient Aliens, but University of Iowa biblical studies professor Robert Cargill ...

‘Master of nonfiction’ Tracy Kidder headlines this fall’s Iowa City Book Festival. You write about heroes whose missions are equal parts herculean, quixotic, and Sisyphean. They are sympathetic heroes ...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Elin Hilderbrand, Claire Lombardo, and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma return with new novels. Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Ruthvika Rao (22MFA) publishes her debut novel, a love ...

This past spring, NFL rookie-to-be Sam LaPorta (23BBA) traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, at the invitation of two of pro football’s top tight ends. LaPorta had played his final collegiate game in this ...

He's met Michael Jordan, visited the White House, and was a clue on Jeopardy! Check out some highlights from Herky's first 75 years. Once upon a time, our Hawkeye predecessors hatched a mascot who ...

Breakthroughs in Michael Welsh’s University of Iowa lab have enabled patients with the disease—once considered fatal—to live longer and healthier lives. It was a blustery March morning in 2005 when ...