Researchers are developing a new computational method to predict how pharmaceutical compounds crystallize into tablet form, a critical step in bringing new medicines to patients.

Randy Marzen, test director at the University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL), joined an Iowa delegation at one of the world’s largest aerospace trade events in July.

As wildfires grow more frequent, intense, and destructive across the United States, researchers at the University of Iowa College of Engineering have secured a National Science Foundation grant to study how fires behave after dark.

The University of Iowa engineering students are helping researchers collect data on pyrocumulonimbus clouds formed by intense wildfires.

As public and private sector leaders in Iowa launch the Ascentus Aerospace Hub initiative to attract aerospace investment and accelerate innovation, forces in industry, infrastructure, workforce development, and research are being combined to create an environment where aerospace and aviation companies can thrive and skilled graduates find reasons to stay in Iowa.

New research from the University of Iowa uses data from the TEMPO satellite mission to examine how blue light common in LEDs may disproportionately affect sleep patterns and health conditions of those in lower income areas. The findings, published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, were presented at a TEMPO DART conference in Iowa.

Progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog, but that progress is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires, according to University of Iowa researchers Weizhi Deng and Jun Wang, and Meng Zhou of the University of Maryland.

Fatima Toor, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently selected to be a part of the 2026 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors.

Fatima Toor, University of Iowa professor of electrical and computer engineering Lowell G. Battershell Chair in Laser Engineering, has been selected for the 2026 class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

UI engineering professors Suresh M.L. Raghavan and Syed Mubeen developed a portable oxygen concentrator.