In addition to helping deserving students through scholarship support, the former Iowa women’s basketball player gave the lead pledge of $1 million that helped build the new P. Sue Beckwith, M.D., Boathouse for the Hawkeye rowing teams. She also serves on advisory boards for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the UI Foundation, acts as president of the Varsity Club board and shares her professional expertise as a clinical associate for the UI Department of Surgery. Beckwith, a Boone native, graduated from the UI in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. She then began her medical training, completing her doctor of medicine degree at UI in 1984.