Articles from October 2024

Andy Wang

CBE Faculty Spotlight: Andy Wang

Thursday, October 31, 2024
Andy Wang is a professor here in the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department. Learn more about Professor Wang and how his career path led him to UI!
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Iowa professors developing AI camera to detect physical abuse

Thursday, October 31, 2024
University of Iowa professors in engineering and social work are inventing a camera that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and physics to detect real-time abuse of vulnerable people, such as children or the elderly. 
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Engineering staff awarded seed funding for radiochemistry project

Engineering staff from IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering and Iowa Geological Survey are part of a radiochemistry project awarded seed funding from the University of Iowa Research Development Office as part of the Seeding Excellence Initiative.
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Corn monument: Hawks by a million

Thursday, October 24, 2024
Civil engineering students pay homage to Kinnick Stadium and America Needs Farmers (ANF) in this year's corn monument Homecoming tradition.
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UI dancers, engineers explore human-tech connections at Dance Gala 2024

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Faculty, students, and staff at the University of Iowa College of Engineering and the Department of Dance created an interpretive performance involving dancers and robots that culminated at Dance Gala 2024: Agile at Hancher Auditorium. 
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Udaykumar secures $1M DoD grant to study energetic materials

Monday, October 21, 2024
H.S. Udaykumar, Roy J. Carver Professor of Engineering and associate dean for research and faculty in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, secured a 4.5-year, $982,705 grant from the Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study energetic materials.
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University of Iowa professors develop camera program to identify abuse

Friday, October 18, 2024
Karim Abdel-Malek, University of Iowa professor and interim director of the Iowa Technology Institute, and social work Associate Professor Aislinn Conrad are working to develop an artificial intelligence camera system that could eventually track and catch child abuse as it happens.
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Drought descends on Iowa despite the wet spring

Thursday, October 17, 2024
If Iowa had not received the rainfall recharge earlier this year, conditions would be ‘exceedingly worse,’ state geologist says.
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Schnoor inducted into National Academy of Construction

Thursday, October 17, 2024
Jerald “Jerry” L. Schnoor, a renowned University of Iowa professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction for contributions to environmental design.
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U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and UI's Operator Performance Laboratory partner to prepare future test leaders, conduct autonomy research

Thursday, October 17, 2024
The United States Air Force Test Pilot School, in collaboration with the University of Iowa's College of Engineering Operator Performance Laboratory, recently made advances in modernizing the student curriculum while providing critical data for continued research in machine learning.