When Charlotte Hilker received a Fulbright Grant to Kosovo after earning a master’s degree at Iowa, she knew she could be a skilled speech-language pathologist; now she’s flourishing as a changemaker.

AuD student Priyanka Gupte is set to hone her audiology skills at an externship in the clinic where she received her own CIs.

Brandon Alpers, a Speech and Hearing Science major set on becoming a pediatric audiologist, is the new Hawkeye Marching Band Drum Major.

Iowa’s audiology program was ranked second best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, and the speech-language pathology program climbed in the rankings to fifth.