Working alongside experts at UI Health Care, biomedical engineering students turned a classroom project into a teaching tool that’s now helping young patients understand scoliosis treatment.

Larry Weber, director of the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, explains that Iowa is experiencing an increasing pattern of several drought years followed by intense rainfall, and that nitrogen can build up in the soil during the drought years before getting "flushed" into waterways during spring flooding.

Using NASA satellites and AI, UI professor Jesus Gomez-Velez and researchers at IIHR are looking at waterways and other conditions to try and forecast the nitrates coming from upstream.

University of Iowa researchers, led by Prof. Xuan Mu, are finding success in growing human airway cells on engineered tissues, a promising development that could improve treatment options for patients whose airways have been damaged by birth defects, injury, cancer, or chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

As wildfires grow more frequent, intense, and destructive across the United States, researchers at the University of Iowa (UI), led by Prof. Jun Wang, have secured a National Science Foundation grant to study how fires behave after dark.

David Cwiertny, professor at the UI College of Engineering, is interviewed in this report about researchers developing models to better understand nutrient pollution and guide efforts to improve water quality.

The University of Iowa is expanding its soil and water monitoring systems to all 3rd District counties to help researchers collect data on rainfall intensity, wind, soil temperature and moisture as well as shallow groundwater levels.

Yang Zhang, a University of Iowa engineering alumna and current professor at Northeastern University, has been elected as a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

As Iowa cancer rates rise, University of Iowa researchers are developing a nitrate forecasting tool to help communities monitor water quality and reduce health risks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought.