Page 28 - Tech Park News Today

Iowa Economic Development Authority issued a five-year, $2.9 million grant for the University of Iowa’s IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering program Friday morning to assist rural communities in wastewater management. The grant will specifically go toward the Iowa Wastewater and Waste-to-Energy Research Program Innovation Center and Tech Park to “hasten solutions for rural Iowa communities where municipal wastewater treatment costs stifle local economic vitality,” according to the project su...

Wake Forest is developing a “live-work-play,” mixed-use technology park that will be a first-of-its-kind in northern Wake County. Despite the challenges currently presented by COVID-19 to land developments of all sizes and to the future of modern work habits, Wake Forest’s plans for a nearly 200-acre, tech-centric site remain active. In 2018, the Wake Forest Business & Industry Partnership, with the full support of the Town of Wake Forest, entered a joint land-development agreement with p...

by University Marketing and Communications Today, in a special edition of Tech Today, we welcome faculty who started in the fall semester. New faculty are listed by College.   Ricardo Eiris, PhD Ricardo Eiris began his faculty appointment as an assistant professor of construction management for both the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Business. Eiris earned a PhD in design, construction and planning, and an MS in construction management from the Rinker Sch...