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ME student wins scholarship for Insure Your Future video

Monday, August 17, 2026
Dominic Channon, a University of Iowa mechanical engineering student, has won a scholarship for a video explaining the perspectives he's gained about the insurance industry during his internship with the Direct X Group
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Vicory engineers a better way to clean hospitals

Connor Vicory, a University of Iowa industrial and systems engineering major, has launched a startup called Vicory Solutions. Through the company, Vicory developed Control, a software that helps hospitals standardize room cleaning and reduce the risk of infection.
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Engineering a better way to explain scoliosis care

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Working alongside experts at UI Health Care, biomedical engineering students turned a classroom project into a teaching tool that’s now helping young patients understand scoliosis treatment.
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Will more downpours spike Iowa nitrate levels? Experts weigh in

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Larry Weber, director of the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, explains that Iowa is experiencing an increasing pattern of several drought years followed by intense rainfall, and that nitrogen can build up in the soil during the drought years before getting "flushed" into waterways during spring flooding.
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KCCI Investigates: How Des Moines Water Works, NASA and University of Iowa work together on nitrates

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Using NASA satellites and AI, UI professor Jesus Gomez-Velez and researchers at IIHR are looking at waterways and other conditions to try and forecast the nitrates coming from upstream.
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Silk helps Iowa engineering researchers repair damaged airways

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
University of Iowa researchers, led by Prof. Xuan Mu, are finding success in growing human airway cells on engineered tissues, a promising development that could improve treatment options for patients whose airways have been damaged by birth defects, injury, cancer, or chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
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NSF supports Iowa engineers' nighttime wildfire forecasting efforts

Tuesday, August 11, 2026
As wildfires grow more frequent, intense, and destructive across the United States, researchers at the University of Iowa (UI), led by Prof. Jun Wang, have secured a National Science Foundation grant to study how fires behave after dark.
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Excess nutrients can lie dormant in soil for years before polluting rivers, study finds

Monday, August 10, 2026
David Cwiertny, professor at the UI College of Engineering, is interviewed in this report about researchers developing models to better understand nutrient pollution and guide efforts to improve water quality.
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UI snags $500K to help Iowa better prepare for extreme weather

Saturday, August 8, 2026
The University of Iowa is expanding its soil and water monitoring systems to all 3rd District counties to help researchers collect data on rainfall intensity, wind, soil temperature and moisture as well as shallow groundwater levels.
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UI engineering alumna elected fellow of American Meteorological Society

Friday, August 7, 2026
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.