A creative challenge: How do you create a post-apocalyptic world on a stage? Leave it to University of Iowa theatre arts students Alex Casillas and Nic Wilson, who serve as lighting designer and scenic designer, respectively, for “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.” Read more...
Beth MacKenzie, waste reducer: The UI’s new recycling coordinator aims to help the university meet its 2020 target of diverting 60 percent of on-campus waste away from the landfill. She also leads Recyclemania 2017, an all-campus recycling initiative that begins on Feb. 5. Read more...
‘We all live in one environment’: Gregory Carmichael, Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, will deliver the 34th annual UI Presidential Lecture “What Goes Around, Comes Around: The Global Reach of Air Pollution” on Sunday, Feb. 19. Read more...
The search for bottom quarks: UI physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search to confirm the existence of a particle believed to give mass to all matter. Her group helped build and operates a sub-detector to search for bottom quarks, which are thought to appear when a Higgs boson decays. Read more...
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