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Researchers create new model to detect COVID’s effects using chest X-rays

“The new element to the model is taking information from 3D CT scans showing lung volume and transferring that information to a model that will show these same characteristics in 2D images,” says Ching-Long Lin, Edward M. Mielnik and Samuel R. Harding professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at Iowa.

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Engineering faculty, students receive Discovery and Innovation awards

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has selected the winners of fourteen awards that recognize exceptional researchers, scholars, innovators, students, and administrators, as a part of the annual Discovery and Innovation awards program.

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Jun Wang receives $1.56 million to aid NASA’s TEMPO mission

Jun Wang, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and James E. Ashton Professor in Engineering in the College of Engineering, has been part of NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) mission since its inception in 2012.

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Three Minute Thesis: Research On Stage

Friday, September 22, 2023 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Seamans Center
Learn theatrical techniques (breath, movement, and body language) to help improve presentation skills, including how to find a hook to get audiences interested in your research, how to feel more comfortable speaking in front of groups and how to create engaging oral presentations. 
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BMindful Holy Days: Yom Kippur (Judaism)

Sunday, September 24 7:00pm to Monday, September 25, 2023 6:59pm
University of Iowa Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
BMindful is an initiative that seeks to meet the needs of diverse communities by providing event and conference planners with the dates of holy days of major religious faiths for five years into the future. By providing these dates in advance, BMindful seeks to help planners avoid those dates when scheduling events. BMindful does not include all religious holy days. It focuses on three major holy days for each faith—days when faith members may choose not to go to work or send their children to...
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Student Success Workshop: Mindfulness 101

Monday, September 25, 2023 1:30pm to 2:20pm
Seamans Center
Students will be able to define mindfulness & mindfulness meditation practice, understand why it’s helpful, and learn new meditations to cope with stress.
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