Undergraduate students in the Class of 2025 identified nearly 1,200 UI faculty and staff members who made a positive difference in their lives during their time at the University of Iowa.

It was through his classes and professors at the University of Iowa that Ben Cooper discovered a love of neurobiology.

Juhl, a sophomore studying genetics and biotechnology with minors in Spanish and sociology, will be participating in a liberal arts study abroad program through CIEE in Santiago, Chile, during the fall 2025 semester.

Maya Monk never could have predicted when she went looking for a research opportunity at the University of Iowa that she would end up working with 13,600-year-old mastodon bones. “It’s been such an incredible experience to get to work on this,” says Monk, who will graduate this spring with a BS in biology.

The Department of Biology is searching for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position to teach two non-majors Biology courses each semester: Human Biology for Non-Majors and Human Biology for Health Professionals.

Ellie Wojcikowski, an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience, works in two research labs on campus studying schizophrenia and related disorders.

Katheryn Rothenberg, assistant professor in the Department of Biology, received $382,644 for work to explore the role of a particular protein—Rap1 GTPase—in controlling cell migration.