With Mother Nature as his muse, assistant professor and IIHR researcher Cong Wang conducts fundamental fluid dynamics research at the UI College of Engineering.

Steady progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog, is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires, according to new findings 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, 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.

Iowa PhD candidate Sam Murphy researches sailors’ physical strain in full protective gear, advancing data to improve readiness and CBRD response across the fleet.

A Fox River PCB cleanup worker seeks answers after cancer diagnoses, as Keri Hornbuckle, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Iowa and director of the Iowa Superfund Research Program, offers expert analysis on PCB exposure and its long-term health and environmental impacts.