Computer science and engineering student Eva Singh is an International Ambassador for the University of Iowa Office of Admissions.

For decades, the United States made steady progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog. But that progress – made as vehicles, industries and power sources became cleaner – is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires, according to a new article from University of Iowa researchers Weizhi Deng and Jun Wang, and Meng Zhou of the University of Maryland.

The Iowa Integrated Network for Science, Information, and Geospatial Health Tracking — or Iowa INSIGHT — will launch July 1 thanks to a $5 million founding gift from Sharon and Kyle Krause and a supporting $1 million from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

A new University of Iowa research initiative is launching July 1, 2026, to study environmental risk factors and improve health outcomes for Iowans. The Iowa Integrated Network for Science, Information, and Geospatial Health Tracking (INSIGHT) program will produce scientific evidence needed to understand how environmental exposures affect human health, from the air we breathe to the water we drink.

Cities facing a one-two punch of heat and air pollution could fight back with changes in city planning, according to a new study co-authored by Gregory Carmichael, University of Iowa Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and published in Nature Communications.

David Cwiertny, director of the UI Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, noted that while Princeton’s still-functional primary well is testing well below the EPA limit, its nitrate levels also appear to be on the rise.

Here’s how Iowa is growing its aerospace and defense industry through talent, research and investment, with contributions from University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory.