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Adeline Kenlin

Hawkeyes teach, coach kids in Vietnam

Hawkeye gymnast and graduate student Adeline Kenlin spent three weeks in Vietnam teaching children biology and dance—and making lifelong connections.
Tevin Middleton

Doctoral student Tevin Middleton receives funds to research school mental health

Counselor Education and Supervision doctoral student is working to increase the number of minority students who pursue higher education and the counselor profession by addressing mental health services in schools.
Ali Hval

5 Questions with Ali Hval

Muralist, with an MFA in painting and drawing from the UI, got her start with IISC.
Bus Tour in Bondurant

Bondurant Visit Highlights Small Town's Expansion

Twenty University of Iowa students and faculty traveled to Bondurant to kickoff a yearlong partnership between the University of Iowa’s Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC) and the city.
Olivia Dunn

Desert dreams: UI grad student on Fulbright in Morocco

Olivia Dunn is teaching English to medical and pharmacy students in Marrakesh, the North African country’s fourth-largest city.
Andre Brock

SLIS Welcomes Dr. André Brock

The School of Library and Information Presents: Black Online Culture, Blackfishing, Digital Blackface, and a Mode of Black Life with Dr. André Brock.
Johanna Winters in the studio

Examining femme aging through puppetry and performance

Thursday, August 10, 2023
Grant Wood Fellow Johanna Winters uses a haunting combination of print, sculpture, puppetry, and video to explore ideas around aging in a femme body.
Aislinn Williams

The impact of mentorship for postdoctoral fellows

Thursday, August 10, 2023
The postdoctoral fellows of the Williams Lab describe the importance of the mentorship they receive from Dr. Aislinn Williams. The Williams Lab investigates how genes that alter the risk for psychiatric disorders change the way the brain develops.
Han Bao

Informatics scholar studies how human mobility dramatically changed during COVID-19

Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Doctoral student's deep learning model will help city planners and policymakers better allocate facilities.
Pictured is Carabayllo - a district of Lima, Peru, where Partners in Health work.

MD/PHD student examines medicine and public health in the Caribbean and Latin America

Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Emiliano Valle's dissertation project examines how Cuba was able to mitigate the effects of the United States’ unilateral trade embargo to build a strong healthcare system.