Professor Gabriele Villarini, director of IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, has been named editor-in-chief for the leading journal Advances in Water Resources.

University of Iowa scholars are designing polymers to help maintain the effectiveness of drugs once they enter the lungs of patients.

Fiegel and her team examined how exhaled bioaerosols—droplets produced from the lung during breathing, coughing, and sneezing—are produced from lung-like surfaces during a cough.

A team at the University of Iowa led by Soura Dasgupta and Nandakumar Narayanan has developed a computational approach using EEG data to diagnose Parkinson's disease. The algorithm achieves 85% accuracy and real-time efficiency, outperforming existing methods and facilitating adaptive deep brain stimulation for symptom management.