Sustainability

UI students studying water quality

UI wins $3 million grant to launch water sustainability graduate program

Students will dive deep to train for STEM careers inside, outside of academia
By: Rebekah Tilley and Andrea Zeek  |  2016.09.13  |  04:17 pm
A new Sustainable Water Development graduate program, inaugurated with a grant from the National Science Foundation, will prepare UI students for careers as engineers, entrepreneurs, professors, or in other professions in the STEM fields.
wilton wastewater treatment facility

Let's help small towns face down big wastewater costs

UI engineers hope to test new treatment technologies for towns with fewer than 2,000 residents
By: Richard C. Lewis  |  2016.08.24  |  01:42 pm
Engineers at the University of Iowa hope to help small Iowa towns wrestling with costly wastewater treatment upgrades. They've proposed a site where new technologies can be tested and approved for use.
IFC graduate student Enes Yildirim working with ground instrumentation as part of the Iowa Flood Center’s collaboration with NASA.

Iowa Flood Center joins with NASA to study soil moisture

Fieldwork will take place Aug. 3 through 16 in the South Fork Watershed near Ames
By: Jackie Hartling Stolze  |  2016.07.29  |  11:02 am
Students and researchers at the Iowa Flood Center based at the University of Iowa are partnering with NASA on research that could help the scientific community better understand and monitor soil moisture. Fieldwork will take place Aug. 3 through 16 in the South Fork Watershed near Ames.
Rathbun Lake

RAGBRAI and UI in Rathbun

State Hygienic Laboratory monitoring soil erosion at Rathbun Lake
By: Andrea Zeek  |  2016.07.28  |  08:01 am
RAGBRAI will reach Rathbun on July 28, but the University of Iowa has been there a while already. When Rathbun Lake began experiencing problems with excess sediment and soil erosion, local residents and officials turned to experts at the UI’s State Hygienic Laboratory.
Adjusting a water quality sensor

IIHR, RAGBRAI in Washington

RAGBRAI to pass near UI water quality sensor site
By: Andrea Zeek  |  2016.07.26  |  10:48 am
Residents in Washington, Iowa, soon will have a more robust tool to help them improve local water quality thanks to experts at the University of Iowa’s IIHR–Hydroscience & Engineering.
Creston Farmers' Market

Celebrating southern Iowa's farmers' markets

UI film to showcase local producers near RAGBRAI route
By: Mikael Mulugeta  |  2016.07.26  |  08:26 am
The UI Department of Cinematic Arts is partnering with the Southern Iowa RC&D, a nonprofit organization based in Creston, to promote farmers' markets in southern Iowa, where RAGBRAI is passing through.

The Wall Street Journal Priest reviews Bakke's 'The Grid'

External Media | 2016.07.20 | 12:50 pm

Tyler Priest, associate professor of history and geography, examines The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, which looks at how the vast network that arose to provide electricity in a centralized and standardized fashion is “being colonized by a new logic: little, flexible, fast, adaptive, local.”

UI scientists using sunlight, water to make clean energy

College of Engineering faculty member renews research agreement with California-based startup
By: Andrea Zeek  |  2016.06.15  |  10:58 am
University of Iowa researchers are working with a California-based startup company to develop a globally feasible, sustainable energy source.

Helping cities prepare for growth

UI researcher’s data analysis will help policy makers better prepare for populations shifts and environmental changes
By: Tom Snee  |  2016.05.31  |  02:56 pm
A University of Iowa researcher has received a $155,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an analytical tool that uses data to help planners and policy makers detect population shifts and environmental changes.

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