The Fall 2023 issue of the AIChE Student Chapter Newsletter has been published. Read to learn about the AIChE annual student conference, the ChemE Jeopardy team's fifth national championship, and more.

A University of Iowa professor who is among the world’s foremost experts in greenhouse gas emissions, and his former PhD student were key figures at COP28, an annual gathering of world leaders focused on climate change.

On this episode of River to River, environmental engineer Jerry Schnoor joins host Ben Kieffer to discuss the annual climate summit, COP28, in Dubai, and the possible repercussions of its latest draft deal which did not include a phase-out of fossil fuels.

Marie Ohlinger is a fourth-year undergraduate student in chemical and biochemical engineering.

David Ramotowski and Qin Dong have found a new use for corn that fights PCBs in the soil with the help of bacteria.

University of Iowa doctoral candidate Prarthana Parepalli planned to present her dissertation in mechanical engineering a month ahead of the anticipated arrival of her second child. Mother Nature had other ideas.

A new University of Iowa study has tabulated the toll from two decades of wildfires on air quality and human health in the continental U.S. The authors report that from 2000 to 2020, the air has worsened in the western U.S., mainly due to the increase in frequency and ferocity of wildfires causing an increase of 670 premature deaths per year in the region during that time period

The University of Iowa College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are collaborating on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called BlueGAP, which aims to connect communities across watersheds to address economic and health challenges caused by nitrogen pollution.

The frequency and ferocity of wildfires across the U.S. West have negated the improvements in air quality achieved over the past two decades, a new study has found.

Time Magazine released its best inventions of the year last month. A University of Iowa professor had a hand in the development of one of those inventions.