Kayden Jenson
The Boren Awards fund up to $25,000 for undergraduates and graduate students to support language study, research and study abroad in world regions critical to U.S. interests. Jenson’s award is part of the Turkish Flagship Language Initiative (TURFLI), which funds a summer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in addition to language study at the Azerbaijan University of Languages in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the fall semester.
Along with Jenson, two UK students were named alternates for the 2021 Boren Awards:
Victor Montgomery, a diplomacy and international commerce graduate student and 2018 modern and classical languages, literatures and cultures/Russian studies graduate.
Authorities say eastern Iowa man killed his wife, then himself on New Year s Day
Couple found dead in Benton County home.
Posted: Jan 5, 2021 9:27 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
URBANA, Iowa – A pair of eastern Iowa deaths on New Year’s Day have been ruled a murder-suicide.
The Urbana Police Department says it got a 911 call on January 1 from Garry Jensen, 59, stating he had shot and killed his wife. Law enforcement went to the Jensen’s home in the 300 block of East Main Street in Urbana and found Margaret Jensen, 54, shot to death and Garry Jensen dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Urbana Police Department cruiser The Gazette
An Urbana man shot and killed his wife before fatally shooting himself on New Year’s Day, state authorities said.
On January 1, the Urbana Police Department received a 911 call from 59-year-old Garry Jensen who said he had shot and killed his wife Margaret Jensen, who was 54, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
When law enforcement arrived at their home at 300 E. Main Street in Urbana, they found Margaret deceased from an apparent gunshot wound, and Garry also deceased, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Autopsies on the couple by the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner confirmed Margaret’s cause of death was a gunshot wound and manner of death was homicide. Garry’s death was ruled a suicide.
By Jason Taylor
Jan 6, 2021
URBANA, Iowa - Investigators now say a murder-suicide led to the death of a married couple on New Year’s Day in Benton County.
Urbana Police say Gary Jensen told a 911 operator he shot and killed his wife. Officers then found both Jensen and his wife dead at their residence on East Main Street.
An autopsy has now determined that Jenson murdered his wife and then committed suicide.
Gary Jenson was 59-years-old.Margaret Jensen was 54.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny conducted the autopsy.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Benton County Sheriff’s Office, and Benton County Attorney’s Office all assisted in the investigation.