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UI engineering professor awarded prestigious AGU Macelwane Medal
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Thanking family, friends and colleagues, Gabriele Villarini, accepted the prestigious American Geophysical Union (AGU) James B. Macelwane Medal at an honors ceremony in San Francisco on Dec. 14.
Reed’s brainchild predicts Hurricane Matthew storm surge
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
While Iowa is far from the eastern seaboard where Hurricane Matthew recently raged, people up and down the Atlantic coast have Daniel Reed to thank, in part, for the prediction models of both the hurricane path and storm surge levels. In 2004, Reed, University of Iowa Vice President for Research and Economic Development, brought together academics from multiple disciplines, government and industry...
UI wins NSF grant to launch water sustainability graduate program
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The University of Iowa recently received a five-year, $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant to develop a Sustainable Water Development graduate program.