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The Iowa Technology Institute has an experienced and dedicated funding support team that can help throughout the entire grant proposal process. In order to best support researchers, the funding support team encourages all faculty and staff proposing projects to contact the team as early as possible. The earliest possible notice enables the team to best assist and support faculty and staff through the process.
The team provides multiple services, including matching researchers to projects and funding, editing publications for journals, and pre- and post-award grant management.
Please contact Lisa Lang with questions at Lisa-Lang@uiowa.edu.
Latest news from ITI
A relationship forged between ITI and Titus Human Performance at the 2019 Defense Strategies Institute’s Human Performance & Biosystems Summit in Washington D.C. quickly evolved into a productive public-private partnership leveraging each other’s capabilities to tackle projects neither could alone.
Qing Zou, University of Iowa PhD candidate and an ITI PhD researcher, placed first for the Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (IEEE-ISBI) 2021 on April 16.
An ITI undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory for Advanced Construction Technology (LACT), Brian Shanahan, has been named the 2021 "Outstanding Student Researcher" through the College of Engineering leadership award program.
Third-year PhD student Calvin Kielas-Jensen has accepted a 10-week internship with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) where he will apply skills integrating, estimating, and controlling autonomous systems learned in the lab and classroom at the University of Iowa to real-world challenges.
Levi Kirby, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a research assistant at the Iowa Technology Institute, has been selected as one of 60 participants for the highly competitive 2021 National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering to be held virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.
ITI faculty affiliate Fatima Toor shared insights into her experiments using light to treat a rare form of cancer called soft-tissue sarcoma on Iowa AM radio WHO 1040 on April 23.
Baek to join University of Virginia
Stephen Baek, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering and an ITI faculty affiliate, has accepted a position as associate professor at the University of Virginia. Baek joined the faculty at Iowa in 2015, directs the Visual Intelligence Laboratory, and is an affiliate of the National Advanced Driving Simulator. Congratulations and good luck, Steve!
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Don't Forget
- Did you miss the CoE return to campus guidance email yesterday? Click here.
- Job Opening: VSR is looking to hire undergraduate/graduate students with significant exposure to Unreal Engine. Candidates with exposure to other gaming engines like Unity are also encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will have experience working on programming languages such as C++, C#, or Java, exposure to Unreal or Unity gaming engines, and a critical eye for design of GUIs. Those with object-oriented experience in other languages are also encouraged to apply. If interested, please send your resume to Marco at marco-tenasalais@uiowa.edu.
- Thursday, May 20, 2-3 p.m.: College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards Ceremony. Attend via Zoom.
- Friday, May 21, 2 p.m.: Climate/Atmospheric Science and Engineering Colloquium featuring Dr. Jens Redemann via Zoom. Register for free. View the flyer.
- Engineering Staff Advisory Council Elections are May 25-June 2. Nominate someone, including yourself by emailing Travis Greenlee, Chair of the Elections Committee, at travis-greenlee@uiowa.edu.
Inside the Lab: Student Stories
Get to know Zachary Althof. The master's student from Rockford, Ill. is studying biomedical engineering with an emphasis on pulmonary image processing under the mentorship of Joseph M. Reinhardt, professor and department executive officer of biomedical engineering and professor of radiology.
"No matter what the future holds, my goal is to extend the knowledge in my field and continue learning my entire life."
Learn more about Zachary, here. Explore more students featured "Inside the Lab," here.
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