Yong Chen professor and DEO of industrial and systems engineering and affiliate of the Iowa Technology Institute won a University of Iowa Faculty and Staff Career Impact Award.

The Iowa Board of Regents has selected six outstanding University of Iowa faculty members, including Jun Wang of the College of Engineering, to be honored for their extraordinary contributions and sustained record of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.

James Ankrum was among four faculty members selected for the award provides funding and development opportunities for outstanding tenured associate professors who have established national or international reputations in their disciplines and are exceptional teachers in and out of the classroom.

University of Iowa engineering students, supported by the Operator Performance Laboratory, took to the Georgia sky to capture data that could enhance the ability to remotely detect wildfires.

University of Iowa engineering professor Xiaodong Wu is investigating a new framework for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with Takotsubo using imaging readily available in clinical settings.

Cheryl Reuben is an undergraduate research assistant in the Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lab.

Professor Jun Wang’s space research helps scientists understand the effects of wildfires and a global decline in air quality.

Xuan Song, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Iowa, has been selected for funding by the Department of the Air Force’s Young Investigator Program.

Hosin “David” Lee, a University of Iowa professor of civil and environmental engineering, was honored with the outstanding contribution award at the annual meeting of the Korean Transportation Association in America.

Just after midnight on April 7 along the eastern coast of Florida, Jun Wang saw a blinding light burst across a harbor, followed by a mighty roar. It was a SpaceX rocket lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and starting its ascent into space. With his wife and two of his kids by his side, Wang watched the rocket climb higher and higher into the inky sky — carrying years of his research with it.