Articles from July 2024

Vingie Ng

Ng follows her own curiosity at Iowa

Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Human Toxicology PhD graduate studied health impacts of e-cigarettes and vaping.
Wuji Huang

Iowa's innovations in laser processing

Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Mechanical Engineering alumni Wuji Huang helped innovate laser processing technology for real-world applications.
Lucas Mann at Prairie Lights

Writing Nonfiction at Iowa

Tuesday, July 30, 2024
The Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP) provides writers unique opportunities to devote time and energy to their practice and assert the creativity and vulnerability inherent in writing nonfiction despite misunderstandings of the genre.
Emily Wieder

Risk-taking, resistance, and surrealism

Monday, July 29, 2024
As a recipient of the 2024 Stanley Award for International Research, Emily Wieder will travel to Paris this fall to present her research on women surrealists who resisted the Nazis at the International Society for the Study of Surrealism’s annual conference.
Dominic Dongilli at the zoo

Breaking through the cage

Friday, July 26, 2024
Using the Smithsonian Institutions’ collection of resources, doctoral student Dominic Dongilli explores the relationship between zoos and American culture.
Robert Becker, PhD

Planning cities and books

Friday, July 26, 2024
Robert Becker, PhD, says Iowa’s urban planning program shaped his 50-year career and was influential on his first novel on disaster recovery in New Orleans.