Two faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa have received a $200,000 1-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study how droplets containing viruses dry on solid surfaces. COVID-19 spreads primarily by inhaling...
Collaborating at a crossroads of their engineering focuses, the Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) Laboratory and the Smart Multifunctional Material Systems (SMMS) Laboratory at the University of Iowa are working on a new project: the creation of a lightweight,...
The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP), a University of Iowa research group started in 2006 that is a leader in the study of human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), has received a highly competitive five-year, $11.4 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (...
Behrooz Roozitalab, a PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has been awarded the Ralph Cicerone Fellowship from the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR). This fellowship is given to only one student each year. Roozitalab will travel to NCAR for three...
When University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics put out the call for additional face shields this week, the College of Engineering jumped to help out.
The college’s Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering spent the week making more than 1,000 face shields to protect health...
Nirmal Kumar Rai, research scientist working with Prof. H.S. Udaykumar, has received the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Director’s Fellowship. Nirmal began his fellowship on March 2nd at LANL where he will collaborate with scientist and engineers on staff-initiated research. This...
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Zhongrun Xiang, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has published a paper in the journal Water Resources Research . Zhongrun is also part of two college research centers - the Iowa Flood Center and IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering.
Zhongrun’s...
Collin Sindt, a University of Iowa undergraduate studying chemical engineering, has received a prestigious Fulbright Mitacs Globalink grant, which will allow him the opportunity to spend the summer in Canada working on a research project at the University of Montreal...
To most people, the words "driving simulator" probably conjure up thoughts of video games. That's understandable: franchises like Gran Turismo and Forza have sold in the tens of millions. While the fidelity of even those games...