Whether solving a problem, persuading a friend or writing a Facebook post, in large and small ways we all rely on our creativity to move through everyday life. In its second year, the UI Creative Matters lecture series invites participants to foster personal innovation by drawing inspiration from the invited artists, thinkers, builders and doers in this year’s series. The 2016-2017 Creative...

Whether grant writing, speaking to the public or testifying before Congress, telling the story of science has profound implications. That’s why University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development has teamed up with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the UI Graduate College to host two Communicating Science workshops Sept. 23 to...

University of Iowa nonprofit startup Clubfoot Solutions has teamed up with NASCAR driver Joey Gase to raise awareness of clubfoot, a congenital condition that 200,000 children are born with each year.

All innovation is driven by one simple thought: “There’s got to be a better way to do this.” That thought is the beginning of every project tackled by the Iowa Medical Innovation Group (IMIG), a University of Iowa program that brings together students from the colleges of law, medicine, engineering and business to develop an idea for an original medical device. From design, to prototype, to...

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development has named Jim Sheets director of the UI Office of Animal Resources and Attending Veterinarian, effective Aug. 1, 2016. Sheets has served as interim director since June 2015. In this position, Sheets provides leadership of animal care research throughout the UI campus including animal research facilities in...

It’s Demo Day for participants in this summer’s ISE Coding Garage, an app development workshop for high school students. There is a nervous energy in the room as students prepare to demonstrate the mobile apps they’ve been developing for the past eight weeks as part of a STEM initiative developed by Coralville-based Innovative Software Engineering (ISE) and supported by the University of Iowa...

Can you describe what you do at work in 90 seconds – with a camera in your face? This summer, nine faculty members at the University of Iowa learned to do just that by participating in a one-and-a-half day media training workshop to facilitate better communication about their research to journalists and the public. Conducted annually, the Communicating Ideas Workshop training takes the research...

After a 38-year engineering career, Neil Quellhorst’s retirement years aren’t being lived on the golf course. He was recently hired by MERGE, a collaborative design and prototype lab geared toward entrepreneurs in tech fields, to serve as engineering prototype director. In his long career beginning with a series of small, entrepreneurial companies, then with Honeywell and later Rockwell Collins...

SantosHuman, Inc., a spinoff company that grew out of ongoing research at the University of Iowa, recently announced the release of a new plug-in module to its line of virtual human modeling and simulation software. Santos® Arm’s Force Field provides SantosHuman’s clients with the only existing way to access the most accurate, validated method to predict manual arm strength available today.

Federal support of University of Iowa research and scholarship increased 4 percent in fiscal year 2016, with substantial gains from both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Federal research funding increased $8.5 million over FY15, from $231.9 million to $240.4 million. “Our researchers and scholars continue to be driven by a deep desire to understand how...