Articles from August 2024

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Communities of West Burlington and Burlington Partner with IISC

Tuesday, August 27, 2024
The cities of West Burlington and Burlington have been selected as partners by the University of Iowa’s Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC) program. During the 2024-25 academic year, IISC will bring more than 100 faculty and students to collaborate with city officials on projects that include engineering designs and policy recommendations.
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Pathfinders RC&D Selected as 2024-25 IISC Partner

Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Pathfinders Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) has been selected as a partner by the University of Iowa’s Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC) program. The nonprofit applied with an emphasis on engaging local youth in areas of job growth. “Working in conjunction with the South Central Iowa Workforce Development Board, Pathfinders is thinking creatively and strategically about how to keep young people in Iowa’s small towns and rural areas,” said Travis Kraus, director of IISC.
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University of Iowa receives $6M to study extreme weather in agriculture

The University of Iowa has received a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to complete a four-year study — which includes placing about 500 sensors across four states — looking at extreme weather in agriculture communities. Jun Wang, chair of the UI Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and a James E. Ashton professor in the College of Engineering, said the project will place the UI-invented weather sensors in fields and neighborhoods across Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas and Kansas. The small sensors will gather soil and air temperatures and humidity levels to help better predict extreme weather in rural communities.