Articles from 2023
PhD student balances academics and family life
Thursday, December 7, 2023
University of Iowa doctoral candidate Prarthana Parepalli planned to present her dissertation in mechanical engineering a month ahead of the anticipated arrival of her second child. Mother Nature had other ideas.
Wildfires have erased two decades’ worth of air quality gains in western US
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A new University of Iowa study has tabulated the toll from two decades of wildfires on air quality and human health in the continental U.S. The authors report that from 2000 to 2020, the air has worsened in the western U.S., mainly due to the increase in frequency and ferocity of wildfires causing an increase of 670 premature deaths per year in the region during that time period
Iowa engineers work with artists, writers, and scholars to humanize water quality issues
Monday, December 4, 2023
The University of Iowa College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are collaborating on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called BlueGAP, which aims to connect communities across watersheds to address economic and health challenges caused by nitrogen pollution.
Wildfires have offset 20 years of air quality gains in US West: study
Monday, December 4, 2023
The frequency and ferocity of wildfires across the U.S. West have negated the improvements in air quality achieved over the past two decades, a new study has found.
Univ. of Iowa professor helps develop Time Magazine Invention of the Year
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Time Magazine released its best inventions of the year last month. A University of Iowa professor had a hand in the development of one of those inventions.
CBE Graduate Seminar Nov 30
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Please join us after the lecture for the reception with food!
3MT winner exploring how to use corn to mitigate PCBs, improve public health
Monday, November 27, 2023
David Ramotowski won this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition, in which graduate students share their research in three minutes or less to a general audience.
Student Spotlight: Maxwell Hammond
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Maxwell Hammond, a PhD student at the Cooperative Autonomous Systems Lab, unveils a novel approach to maneuver soft continuum robots.
Art meets engineering in College of Engineering STEAM project
Monday, November 20, 2023
Ananya Sen Gupta, University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been working with Subhajit Khush Das, an artist and choreographer from Kolkata, India, for more than a year to train and test artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize and classify changing features through Bharatanatyam, a classical dance.
Iowa engineering students have new ‘home away from home’ in Burge Hall Makerspace
Monday, November 20, 2023
University of Iowa Engineering students now have a new space to bring their ideas to life. It’s called the Engineering Makerspace, and it is located on the lower level of Burge Residence Hall.
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