Articles from February 2022
DHM 2022 Updates: Keynotes announced, registration pricing change, new submission options
                  Friday, February 25, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                The Organizing Committee of the 7th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium (DHM 2022) is announcing two keynote presenters, expanded details on the types of submissions being accepted, and a new lower pricing structure for both in-person and virtual options.
      
    
  
      
                        
UI professor awarded a $1 million grant to research machine learning, modeling, and simulation
                  Friday, February 25, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                University of Iowa Technology Institute faculty affiliates Sharif Rahman, Jia Lu, and Shaoping Xiao, who are all faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are on a research team led by Ching-Long Lin studying the educational gap between engineering scholars.
      
    
  
      
                        
3 UI faculty elected fellows of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
                  Monday, February 21, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                Gary Christensen, an ITI faculty affiliate, is among three UI faculty who have been named members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
      
    
  
      
                        
New $1M grant to bridge educational gaps between modeling and simulation and machine learning
                  Friday, February 18, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                The United States Department of Education has awarded a $1 million grant to Professors Ching-Long Lin (PI), Sharif Rahman, Jia Lu, Shaoping Xiao, Rachel Vitali and Jane Russell to develop artificial intelligence modeling and simulation (AIMS) programs to bridge educational gaps between modeling and simulation and machine learning.
      
    
  
      
                        
Grace Williamson develops spray gel for burn wounds
                  Monday, February 14, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                Grace Williamson, a University of Iowa senior, is researching advancements in burn wound technology to treat third- and fourth-degree burns.
      
    
  
      
                        
Army turns to Iowa experts as it overhauls fitness standards
                  Friday, February 11, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                The UI’s Virtual Soldier Research Program puts the Army Combat Fitness Test through its paces.
      
    
  
      
                        
UI professor collaborates with NOAA to measure air pollution
                  Thursday, February 10, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                Jun Wang, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa, is trying to create a mechanism to have exact measures of air pollution and fine particles.
      
    
  
      
                        
Imagining the possibilities of personalized medicine
                  Thursday, February 10, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                Fifth-year Biomedical Engineering PhD student Mallory Tollefson is imagining the possibilities of personalized medicine. And when she says personalized, she means it.
      
    
  
      
                        
Student reflects on campus involvement experience
                  Friday, February 4, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                Despite being an international student on paper, Pareen Mhatre, a senior majoring in biomedical engineering and minoring in business administration, lists Iowa City as her hometown.
      
    
  
      
                        
Charles Stanier: The air quality-energy-climate-water-agriculture nexus in the upper Midwest: Status, trends, and research needs
                  Thursday, February 3, 2022
                
                                                                    
                                                The Climate / Atmospheric Science & Engineering (CASE) Colloquium hasted Prof. Charles Stanier on Friday, Feb. 11 at 2:30 p.m. via Zoom. The CASE Colloquium is presented by the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research and the Iowa Technology Institute.