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A power generation facility sits beside agricultural fields, with several cooling towers and smokestacks emitting large columns of white and gray vapor that billow across the sky. A narrow road runs through the foreground between green crops and a golden field, while dramatic clouds and sunlight create strong contrast overhead.

Engineering professor's research finds promise in detecting methane leaks

Thursday, October 15, 2026

UI professor looks to develop formula for quicker response in self-driving underwater vehicles

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Iowa Now

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UI engineering professor leads DARPA project to make nitric acid from air and water

Monday, October 5, 2026

Michael Schnieders and Lewis Stevens in the Stevens Lab

Researchers using advanced computing methods to improve drug development

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Student research

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Vicory engineers a better way to clean hospitals

Monday, August 17, 2026

John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center

Four people standing together in a hospital corridor, holding a transparent spine model, with healthcare staff wearing ID badges and one person in a white lab coat.

Engineering a better way to explain scoliosis care

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

University of Iowa

NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft used to collect data for the INSPYRE project

Iowa students join NASA mission to study wildfire clouds

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Research participant wearing full protective gear performs a kneeling squat with a bar while observers record data during a human performance study in an indoor lab setting.

NSWC Panama City Division, University of Iowa partner on research to better protect sailors

Thursday, May 28, 2026

DVIDS

James Buchholz, Mechanical Engineering

Design, Construction, and Installation of a Laboratory Water Channel

Grant agency: Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
Month awarded: November 2025

Edward Sander, Biomedical Engineering

Mechanical Testing and Characterization of Human Skin

Grant agency: Solventum
Month awarded: November 2025

Thomas Schnell, ITI, ISE, ECE

BAE Systems Seeker Integration and Test

Grant agency: BAE Systems
Month awarded: November 2025

Xi Chen, Iowa Technology Institute

Support Air Quality & Public Health Management in Wildfires: Satellite & Machine Learning Based Air Quality Forecast

Grant agency: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Month awarded: October 2025

College of Engineering