Maya Mahony, an MFA student in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been passionate about immigration justice for quite some time, and those themes find their way into her stories.

When Karina Kruth moved to Iowa in 2009 to pursue a PhD in biochemistry, she did so with the intention of ultimately pursuing a career in patent law. Instead, she “stumbled across a life passion.”

First-year Nonfiction Writing MFA student Aaron Pang uses performance and writing to share insights into life with a disability.

Sociology PhD candidate KaLeigh White studies the ongoing effects of safety net programs on recipients’ wellbeing, health, and sense of autonomy.

Fifth-year Biomedical Engineering PhD student Mallory Tollefson, who was awarded the 2021-2022 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, is using 3-D models of proteins to explore the possibilities of genome sequencing in personalized medicine.