Zhao named Tippie's new associate dean
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Farag receives American Nurses Association 2025 Innovation Award
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Iowa Initiative For Sustainable Communities Wins Campus Compact Award
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Wang wins 2024 Joanne Simpson Medal
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
CSSI Welcomes the Participants of the 2025 Grant Writing Residency Program
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Lane named 2024 Iowa School Counselor Advocate of the Year
Monday, November 11, 2024

A conversation with new College of Pharmacy Dean Jill Kolesar
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Davidson develops app to bridge gap between first responders, people with limited speech
Monday, October 7, 2024

Iowa Engineering part of $82M Global Centers investment to tackle global challenges
Monday, October 7, 2024

UI researchers receive NASA grant to understand how turbulence in space heats solar wind
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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UI engineers receive nearly $1 million to develop new methods to recycle paper into fiber reinforced plastic composites
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Instead of turning old paper and cardboard into new paper, engineers at the University of Iowa are working to enhance the process of turning wastepaper into high-value fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) composites. Xuan Song, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering; Chao Wang, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering; and H.S. Udaykumar, professor of mechanical...
UI spin-off NanoMedTrix awarded $2 million from National Cancer Institute
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Using nanoparticles to deliver drugs directly to tumors is a novel technology developed by NanoMedTrix, LLC, a UI spin-off founded by Jose Assouline, an adjunct associate professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The targeted delivery of these nanoparticles to treat diseases such as bladder cancer led to a two-year...
Study links plant protein intake to lower risk of deaths from cardiovascular disease, dementia
Monday, March 1, 2021
Postmenopausal women who ate high levels of plant protein had lower risks of premature death, cardiovascular disease death, and dementia-related death compared with women who ate less plant protein, according to new research from University of Iowa College of Public Health investigators.
Wise and Valiant: Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez celebrates forgotten women authors
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
University of Iowa Associate Professor Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez created an exhibit about forgotten and overlooked Spanish female authors, Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age (Tan sabia como valerosa: Mujeres y escritura en los Siglos de Oro), at Spain's Cervantes Institute. In December, the Smithsonian named Wise and Valiant one of the top 10 online exhibitions of the year...
Tim Mattes awarded $1.4 million from NIEHS to reduce contaminants in soil and water
Monday, February 15, 2021
Synthetic polymers which mimic black carbon materials can be created in the laboratory and applied to soil and water along with specialized bacteria to break down hazardous contaminants. The development of these “tunable materials” and determining their impact on bioremediation of halogenated groundwater pollutants is the focus of a five-year $1.467 million grant from the National Institute of...
COVID Q&A: Is it time to begin double-masking?
Monday, February 8, 2021
Renee Anthony, professor of occupational and environmental health in the University of Iowa College of Public Health, offers updated advice to protect against transmission of the virus, including the practice of double-masking as well as other masking tips and reminders.
UI startup Cardio Diagnostics launches new heart disease risk assessment for home
Monday, February 8, 2021
Cardio Diagnostics, a University of Iowa faculty startup, has commercially launched a new home clinical test for assessing patients’ heart disease risk. The product, the Epi+Gen CHD at-home sampling kit, was made possible through a license held by the UI Research Foundation.
UI student researchers persevere despite pandemic challenges
Monday, February 8, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and reshaped many aspects of our lives, but it hasn’t stopped University of Iowa (UI) students from exploring some of life’s most interesting questions through research, scholarship, and creative activity. To celebrate students’ ingenuity, resilience, and innovation, the UI Office of the Vice President for Research is sponsoring the Dare to Discover campaign...
Professor of History Colin Gordon awarded NEH Fellowship
Monday, January 25, 2021
Colin Gordon, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa, has received the nation's most prestigious award for humanities scholarship, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. Gordon's fellowship will support research for his upcoming monograph, tentatively titled Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants and the Architecture of Segregation. The...
Monica Correia connects generations of UI design with Figge Art Museum exhibition
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Visitors to the Figge Art Museum’s “Seating by Design” exhibition are greeted by an unconventional chair—beige, wooden, oblong—with a title: “For Your Eyes Only.” The piece serves as an appropriate opener to the exhibition, which features a series of chairs designed by artists associated with the 3D Design Program in the School of Art and Art History. Created by the late University of Iowa...
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