Sen. Joni Ernst, of Iowa, visited ITI in early September to learn more about ITI's ongoing efforts to validate and enhance the Army Combat Fitness Test. The test measures the readiness of all soldiers. Ernst heard a briefing about ITI's work and toured several labs.
A University of Iowa PhD candidate working as a research assistant at the Iowa Technology Institute has been selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship Program. Bernice Kubicek was awarded this fellowship to continue work born out of her time with the Ananya Sen Gupta Research Group. She has conducted research on sonar autonomous target recognition through the development of feature extraction algorithms that aim to improve the classification and recognition of objects deep underwater.
Meng Zhou, a fourth-year PhD student conducting research at the University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI), has been awarded a NASA research fellowship to study air quality at night.
NASA awarded ITI scientist Jun Wang grants totaling $1.3 million to study atmospheric and climate impacts from wildfires that have ravaged parts of the planet.
The College of Engineering celebrated the named appointment of Joseph Reinhardt as the Roy J. Carver Chair in Biomedical Engineering. The ceremony also recognized the generosity of the Roy. J. Carver Charitable Trust that, with its philanthropic support, established this prestigious position within the Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering.
