CBB In The News
Pharmacy researcher to use American Cancer Society grant for melanoma research
Oct. 13, 2008
Aliasger Salem, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutics in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, has received a four-year $717,000 American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award to develop a vaccine to treat and prevent melanoma.
Salem will conduct the research in collaboration with George Weiner, M.D., professor of internal medicine in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI.more
UI engineer named to National Academy of Sciences air pollution study
Sept 16, 2008
Greg Carmichael, Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in the UI College of Engineering, has been named to participate in a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study on the significance of the international transport of air pollutants.more
Five engineering faculty, staff receive excellence awards
May 23, 2008
Five University of Iowa faculty and staff recently received College of Engineering Excellence Awards for their individual contributions to research, teaching, service, Staff research, and staff excellence in 2007-08.
The five, honored by Dean P. Barry Butler at the College's annual faculty/staff recognition luncheon on May 13, are: Tonya L. Peeples, Faculty Excellence Award for Service; Michelle M. Scherer, Faculty Excellence Award for Research; David G. Wilder, Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching; Rajankumar Bhatt, Collegiate Staff Research Award; and Jane M. Dorman, Mary Sheedy Staff Excellence Award.more
Schnoor: ethanol is 'clearly not sustainable
Feb. 21, 2008
A story about how corn grown for ethanol has contributed to water shortages in eastern Colorado quotes JERALD SCHNOOR, a professor of engineering at the University of Iowa and co-chairman of an October 2007 National Research Council study for Congress that was critical of ethanol. Collectively, "[ethanol] is clearly not sustainable," he says. "Production will have serious impacts in water-stressed regions." Schnoor calls ethanol simply "a bridge fuel" to undiscovered and truly environmentally friendly technology.more
$1 million Carver Trust grant will help buy high-resolution microscope
Feb. 14, 2008
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa has made a $1 million grant to support the University Iowa's acquisition of a field emission transmission electron microscope (FETEM) that will advance biomedical and physical science research and education at the UI.
"The FETEM is becoming a critical instrument for scientific and biomedical research, especially for several emerging and increasingly important research fields such as nanoscience, nanomedicine and structural biology," said Vicki Grassian, director of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at the UI, professor of chemistry in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering in the UI College of Engineering, and associate director of clinical and translational science at the UI.more
Doorn studies link between pesticides
Parkinson's disease
Jan. 10, 2008
University of Iowa College of Pharmacy researcher Jonathan Doorn, Ph.D., has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a possible link between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease.more
UI researcher receives grant to study anticancer drugs
Oct. 30, 2007
Zhendong Jin, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, has received a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the chemistry and biology of natural products found in deepwater marine sponges. The research may contribute to the development of anticancer drugs. more
Beyond corn-based ethanol
October 26, 2007
The Brookings Institution in conjunction with the University of Iowa held an event Oct. 17 in Iowa City on energy, ethanol, and national security. Despite what one might have expected, however, this was not a rally for any and all forms of ethanol as a substitute for petroleum-based fuels.
The concept of corn-based ethanol is sound — that is, up to a point. As several of the panelists, including Jerry Schnoor, Mani Subramanian, and Tonya Peeples of the University of Iowa's engineering schools, one of us, Steve Fales of Iowa State's agronomy department, and John Miranowski of Iowa State's economics department underscored, however, there are lots of downsides to pushing the corn-based ethanol concept too far. more
UI College of Pharmacy to honor faculty, preceptors Oct. 26
Oct. 19, 2007
Four faculty members and six preceptors in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy will be honored for outstanding teaching during the 2006-07 academic year at a reception Oct. 26 at the college.
Gary Milavetz, associate professor of clinical and administrative pharmacy, is the college's recipient of this year's UI College Teaching Award. more
UI provost names faculty scholars
Oct. 1, 2007
The University of Iowa Office of the Provost has selected six faculty members to receive Faculty Scholar Awards.
CBB 2007 Recipients
Amnon Kohen
Assc. Prof. of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Leonard R. MacGillivray
Assc. Prof. of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences more
Laboratory at UI plays major role in diagnosing cancer
Sept. 4, 2007
The unique laboratory of Dr. David R. Soll at the University of Iowa is making a
big footprint in the field of cancer research, thanks to a new agreement reached between Soll and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. more
Six UI professors win regents awards for faculty excellence
Aug. 29, 2007
Six University of Iowa faculty members have won the 2007 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. Given by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, the award honors faculty members for work representing a significant contribution to excellence in public education. Each honoree will receive $1,000. This year's UI recipients are Randall Bezanson, Beverly L. Davidson, James B. Gloer, Adalaide "Dee" Morris, Ernest Pascarella and Alec Scranton. more
Carmichael, Krajewski Named To National Research Council Panel
June 20, 2007
University of Iowa College of Engineering professors Gregory Carmichael (photo, far left) and Witek Krajewski (photo, left) were recently appointed to the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Developing Mesoscale Meteorological Observational Capabilities to Meet Multiple National Needs. more
UI Researchers Study Impact Of Asian Dust On Weather, Climate
May 30, 2007
Gregory R. Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering and associate dean for graduate programs and research in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, says that PACDEX will greatly expand scientists' knowledge . . . more
Opening Of New CGMP Facility At UI Center For Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing July 6, 2007
WHAT: A ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the new Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) facility at the University of Iowa Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. The cGMP facility offers state-of-the-art manufacturing of products suitable for clinical use .
WHO: UI Vice President for Research Meredith Hay, Ph.D., will perform the ribbon cutting. Remarks will also be made by Venkiteswaran (Mani) Subramanian, Ph.D., director of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing
WHEN: 11:30 am Monday, July 9, 2007.
WHERE: The Multi-Tenant Facility, 2501 Crosspark Road, Oakdale Research Park. more
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