The 2025 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize winners were Dr. Myat Thinzar Aung, an art history student, and Dr. Katelyn Joyal, a neuroscience student. These two students were recognized for their exemplary work in their respective fields.

Second-year PhD student Nuzhat Nuari Khan Rivu uses mathematical models to understand real-world health impacts. She has a long history of examining the effects of treatments on disease spread, and now she's turning her attention to the body itself.

Iowa neuroscience PhD student Chiara Borrelli finds that patients with heart failure are super sensitive to carbon dioxide.

As a recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research, second-year doctoral student Shannon Casey traveled this summer to excavate ceramic material at Agroal, an archaeological site in central Portugal.

After spending the last 23 years as a professor in the University of Iowa’s College of Education, Dr. Saba R. Ali became interim dean and associate provost of the Graduate College this summer.

The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics held a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Student Retreat on June 12 and 13, 2025.

After 14 years as a faculty member at the University of Iowa, associate provost and dean of the Graduate College, Amanda Thein, has completed her tenure and will embark on a new journey at the University of Colorado.

Julie Leonard, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa Center for the Book (UICB), has been awarded the College Book Art Association's Distinguished Career Award.