MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (May 4, 2026) — An assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas, Regina Mangieri leads a research team at the university's Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. Her days are full of science.

From left to right: Grace Schuetz, Sunny Horner, Cole Davidson, Rentse De Jong, and Caleb Cross

WAVERLY, IOWA (May 4, 2026) — Four Wartburg College students presented their research at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 25 at Bethel University.

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (May 4, 2026) — Des Moines University (DMU) Medicine and Health Sciences honored 48 individuals, including thirteen veterans, at this year's Body Donation Remembrance Ceremony. The annual service took place at 10:30AM, Saturday, May 2, in the Olsen Center at the DMU 32 Health and Business Complex in Des Moines.

DMU faculty, staff, students, and families gathered to remember those who generously donated their bodies to advance medical education.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (May 4, 2026) — The Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced the recipients of $856,327 in scholarship awards, the largest total dollars awarded in the organization’s sixty-plus-year history. The awards are made possible by the generosity of donors to scholarship funds at the Community Foundation.

“Behind every scholarship is a personal motivation,” said Sue Hafkemeyer, President and CEO of the Community Foundation.