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Hawkeye Spotlight
![Luz Alcala](/sites/careers.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-12/2021_09_10-acala_luz_jatorner_-0129.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=H44y35mr)
Luz Alcala wants to pay it forward
Luz Alcala came to the University of Iowa to earn a business degree, but the first-generation student will graduate with so much more.
![University of Iowa graduate Carrie Schuettpelz looks beyond the frame standing in front of a colorful mural](/sites/careers.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-12/2021_11_03-carrie_schuettpelz-tschoon-002.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=P8_rh2WY)
Bringing a passion for policy to the classroom
University of Iowa graduate Carrie Schuettpelz wants to teach students how to effect change. She returned to campus in 2018 to share the perspectives she’s gained since leaving campus, ones that have come from living abroad, graduate study at Harvard, and federal work on homelessness.
![ROTC Cadet and University of Iowa undergraduate nursing student Grace Palmatier poses for a portrait in front of the University of Iowa College of Nursing on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Grace Palmatier will be graduating to become a 2nd Lieutenant in the Iowa National Air Guard on Dec. 17, 2021.](/sites/careers.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-12/ROTCCadet-900x600.jpg?h=b69e0e0e&itok=8B03iW9w)
ROTC member graduates as Second Lieutenant of USAF, heading to Arizona
As Grace Palmatier graduates from the University of Iowa’s nursing program and the UI ROTC this winter, she looks to Arizona, where she will take the next steps in her career as a nurse for the U.S. Air Force.
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