Fatima Toor was awarded funding through the competitive Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program. Toor is an ECE associate professor, Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering, and faculty affiliate at ITI.
The P3 grant program has had a transformative impact on Earth observation research in the College of Engineering, leading to faculty hires, new graduate students, critical infrastructure, and nearly $10 million in recent NASA awards.
The Iowa Geological Survey has been selected to lead a two-year, $11.3 million study that could change how carbon dioxide emissions are managed in Iowa, a potential win-win for the environment and energy producers.
University of Iowa professors in engineering and social work are inventing a camera that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and physics to detect real-time abuse of vulnerable people, such as children or the elderly.
CBE alumnus Marcelo Mena-Carrasco was named among Time's most influential climate leaders in business for 2024. The CEO of Global Methane Hub is working to reduce methane emissions by more than 30% by 2030.
The University of Iowa’s AIChE chapter secured the ChemE Jeopardy championship at the 2024 AIChE Annual Student Conference in San Diego, CA, marking their second consecutive victory in the competition and sixth overall.
Iowa engineering professors Caterina Lamuta and Xuan Song, who have already gained acclaim in their fields for research contributions, are now being recognized as "rising stars" by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Yang Liu, associate professor of computer and electrical engineering, co-founded Unify Medical, which released a digital loupe called Amplio for image-guided surgical procedures. Amplio made Time's Best Inventions of 2024.
