Kristin Stein, a University of Iowa undergraduate studying civil and environmental engineering, has been named the 2025 Student of the Year by the American Water Works Association for work on sustainable water management.

Keegan Fogarty didn’t come to the University of Iowa to start a business. But a connection with the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC) early in his college journey sparked a passion that has shaped his Hawkeye experience and put him on a path to launching a company of his own.

The Iowa Geological Survey is undertaking a comprehensive five-year project to survey and assess Iowa's 900 miles of levees using cutting-edge geophysical technology, an important precautionary measure to ensure flood protection is ready for the next natural disaster.

A $500,000 NASA grant led by Xi Chen, principal investigator, and Jun Wang, co-investigator, will leverage state-of-the-art satellite-based measurements of aerosol optical centroid height (AOCH) — a key indicator of smoke layer altitude.

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.

The U.S. Army has awarded a $5 million contract led by Karim Abdel-Malek, a University of Iowa engineering professor, for a groundbreaking study aimed at improving soldier fitness standards and training.

Tyler Bell, a University of Iowa associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, contributed to studies of AI-integrated virtual reality training for teacher preparation, which won the Thomas N. Urban Research Award.

George Barrera is a third year graduate student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.

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.

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.