Roxy Ekberg

There’s a stigma surrounding change and starting over; people often find it scary or depressing. For Kaili Decker, change is embraced and welcomed with open arms. Decker, a University of Iowa fourth-year student majoring in exercise science on the pre-physical therapy track, transferred to the UI just before her third year. Feeling two years behind...

For Dave Cacho, politics was never meant to stay inside a classroom. Over his past four years at the University of Iowa, the fourth-year has become one of the defining figures behind the growth of the university’s chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America, or YDSA. Serving as co-chair for the organization, Cacho helped transform...

Born into Iowa royalty, Gable Mitchell has embodied what it means to represent the University of Iowa and Iowa City. Before Mitchell even set foot on campus, he had seven different family connections to Iowa athletics. Mitchell’s father, Brian, played baseball for the Hawkeyes, and his grandfather, Bob Mitchell, along with three of his uncles,...

The Iowa softball team graduated five seniors this season, but with saying goodbye comes the opportunity to highlight and remember those unforgettable seniors. Third-baseman Avery Jackson is one of the Hawkeyes’ most impactful infielders, not just this season but over the past four years. “It meant a lot to be here for four years, I...

Senior sprinter Alexandria Edison has been running since she was just seven years old on account of her mother being a track coach. Now, the fourth year is looking to climb the mountain with her 4×100 team and sit alone and accomplished atop the Iowa record books. Edison and her quartet, consisting of Holly Duax,...

Franklin Pastorino, a University of Iowa third-year student, had never heard a gun go off before. When shots were fired on the Pedestrian Mall on the April 19 shooting, Pastorino thought the loud sound was fireworks. It wasn’t until he heard people screaming that he realized something was horribly wrong. Five people were injured in...

When searching for her first post- graduation job, University of Iowa fourth-year student Isabelle Hudnut was repeatedly told she did not have enough work experience for the entry-level positions she applied for. Over the span of her college career, Hudnut had a three-year-long internship position and two summer internships. One of the summer roles even...

While at North Scott High School in Iowa’s Quad Cities, Chloe Schwab committed to the University of Iowa because of its reputation in journalism and mass communication, with aspirations of becoming a broadcast TV news anchor. Slowly, she realized that wasn’t her true calling; musical theater was. During the summer after her senior year of...

Alison Baldwin was a mix of emotions regarding her approaching graduation. “It’s a weird feeling, because everything that’s been created around here — everyone’s going their own way. All my friends are really close to me right now, we can all walk to each other,” she said. “I bet it’s a bit of a strange...

Much like learning to write with a pencil, novices in the lab can struggle to utilize a pipette and other instruments. Winter Philibert, a doctoral student in UI’s department of Biological Engineering, said she quickly learned to wield the instrument as a child in her father’s lab. “Sometimes it was a lot of work and...