On March 30, 2016, Medicinal Chemistry PhD candidate Ioana Craciun successfully defended her thesis to the Division of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry.

On Monday, March 21, 2016, PhD candidate Carlos Peroza successfully defended his thesis to the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics.

On March 23, the Division of Pharmaceutics and Translational Therapeutics held a reception to celebrate the opening of the Dale E. and June P. Wurster Pharmaceutics Research Fund.

Jeffrey Reist, clinical associate professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, was recently elected as chair of the Iowa Pharmacy Recovery Network (IPRN).

Wes Pilkington of Waterloo was recently featured as a Hometown Hawkeye.