Articles from 2026

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ISE seniors bring engineering mindset to UI Health Care project

Monday, June 22, 2026
Having Iowa’s largest medical center on campus created a valuable opportunity for a trio of University of Iowa industrial and systems engineering (ISE) students to improve patient care and hospital operations.
Water flows over a rust-colored metal grate in an indoor hydraulic lab, while two technicians on an elevated platform observe and adjust equipment above the channel.

IIHR solves stormwater challenges for Iowa and the world

Friday, June 19, 2026
IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering at the University of Iowa has partnered with Iowa towns and major cities in the nation and world to manage their stormwater challenges, with the goal to efficiently discharge excess flows that can harm the environment and endanger people.
Eva Singh

Student profile: Eva Singh

Monday, June 8, 2026
Computer science and engineering student Eva Singh is an International Ambassador for the University of Iowa Office of Admissions.
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How an Iowa scientist finds inspiration in the natural world

Friday, June 5, 2026
With Mother Nature as his muse, assistant professor and IIHR researcher Cong Wang conducts fundamental fluid dynamics research at the UI College of Engineering.
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Wildfires are reversing America’s progress on ozone pollution

Thursday, June 4, 2026
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.
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New UI-based research program aims to improve health outcomes, answer cancer questions

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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.
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University of Iowa launches program to improve health outcomes for Iowans

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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.
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Study: City planning can help expanding cities combat heat, air pollution

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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.
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An Iowa town spent $800,000 on a new well. It pumps undrinkable water.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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.