As the world burns, UI researchers take action to fight climate change

	This image from September 2006 shows the ozone concentration in the stratosphere above the South Pole observed by NASA satellite monitoring. Extremely low levels of ozone stretches across most of Antarctica, which is roughly centered in the image. Image by NASA.

“If we don’t cut back on greenhouse gas emissions by at least 70 percent, our children’s children will see the Earth as it has never looked in 55 million years.”

So says Jerry Schnoor, professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, about the impact of global warming. But Schnoor and others at the University aren't cooling their heels—scientists in the College of Engineering are studying alternative sources of power, researchers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are studying the effects of warming on alpine tree lines and the migratory behavior of elk, and others even are investigating pollution on the nanoscale.

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News in brief

AROUND CAMPUS…

• Four Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members named Collegiate Fellows
• Iowa is tops, say postdocs

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DISCOVERIES…

• Virtual Soldier Research gets big Battelle bucks
• Autism researchers report key genetic finding
• UI study shows hearing loss puts farmers at risk
• UI researchers find positive market reaction to Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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TRANSITIONS...

• Recent deaths

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