Yang Zhang, a University of Iowa engineering alumna and current professor at Northeastern University, has been elected as a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

As Iowa cancer rates rise, University of Iowa researchers are developing a nitrate forecasting tool to help communities monitor water quality and reduce health risks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has backed off its re-assessment of cancer-causing nitrates despite decades of research suggesting the contaminant is more harmful than previously thought.