Ann Campbell, professor of management sciences in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, is an expert on transportation logistics. One of her research focuses is finding more efficient methods for governments, agencies, and businesses to transport relief supplies to disaster areas.
Support for America’s research universities continues to decline, and Dan Reed, UI vice president for research and economic development, says it could take decades to recover from the damage.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) has approved a $200,000 Strategic Infrastructure Program grant to support the work of protostudios, a University of Iowa-managed, state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping facility located in the MERGE co-lab space in downtown Iowa City.
University of Iowa researchers and scholars invest years of education and investigation in the lab and out in the field to become experts within their disciplines.