Articles from 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Bell, Hasan lead new AI certificate's foundational course

Friday, November 7, 2025
Tyler Bell, engineering associate professor, and Ali Hasan, philosophy associate professor and department chair, will co-teach the core class for University of Iowa's new artificial intelligence certificate.

Iowa engineers leverage ‘digital twins’ to shape future of military fitness training

Friday, November 7, 2025
The U.S. Army has awarded a $5 million contract to Karim Abdel-Malek, a University of Iowa engineering professor to lead a groundbreaking study aimed at improving soldier fitness standards and training.
George

CBE Student Spotlight: George Barrera

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
George Barrera is a third year graduate student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.
Karim Abdel-Malek

Can AI stop, or even prevent, abuse?

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
River to River host Ben Kieffer spoke with Aislinn Conrad, a former child welfare investigator, and mechanical engineer Karim Abdel-Malek. The two are developing an AI system that monitors physical behaviors to detect violence as it happens.
Aerial view of Seamans Center

Eight University of Iowa student businesses share $6,700 at IdeaStorm competition

Monday, November 3, 2025
Pranev Karthik, a finance and business analytics information systems major, and Lane Neshiem, a mechanical engineering major, won the $500 People’s Choice award at the fall IdeaStorm competition for SmartStack Systems, an all-in-one stacked washer and dryer system.
Larry Weber

An effort to save Iowa's water quality tracking system

Friday, October 31, 2025
Host Ben Kieffer speaks with director of IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering Larry Weber about the implications if we no longer track water quality and the effort to fund the network of 60 sensors across the state.
Elliot Anderson speaking into a microphone

Scientists say Polk County’s water research findings are applicable to Eastern Iowa, too

Thursday, October 30, 2025
Elliot Anderson, Jerald Schnoor, and Larry Weber participated in an event called Our Water, Our Future. It provided an in-depth look at the Central Iowa Source Water Research Assessment, which studied central Iowa’s Des Moines and Raccoon watersheds.
Larry Weber

Iowa water quality study shows pollutants nearly doubled in 50 years

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Larry Weber from the UI Center for Hydrologic Development said residents felt the impact of increased pollution this summer. “This summer, the nitrate levels were above 20 milligrams per liter, more than double the safe water drinking levels,” Weber said. “When we go back 50 years, the nitrate levels were one to 3 milligrams per liter.”
Dick and Judy Smith

Alumnus Richard Smith donates $7.7M to University of Iowa College of Engineering

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The University of Iowa College of Engineering has received a $7.7 million gift from alumnus Richard "Dick" and Judy Smith to endow the deanship as the Dick and Judy Smith Dean of the College of Engineering and support facility enhancements.
40-year awardee Dave Funk

College honors staff, faculty with excellence, longevity awards

Monday, October 27, 2025
The annual awards from the College of Engineering and University of Iowa recognize excellence and longevity in faculty and staff members