Elizabeth Miglin | June 9, 2021 Researchers at the University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI) have developed a new model to measure air pollution from soil using satellite data. Led by visiting ITI scholar Tong Sha, the study focused on nitrogen oxides (NOx) derived from soil (SNOx). Traditionally, NOx are thought of as emissions from…
Iowa City Press-Citizen
After seven months, 79 applicants and four finalists who have taken turns answering questions in public, the University of Iowa is going to get a new president Friday afternoon.
Barbara Wilson, Daniel Clay, Hari Osofsky and Wendy Hensel
two career academics and two Ivy League-educated lawyers emerged as the finalists to replace Bruce Harreld. All hold high-level academic degrees and have built careers as professors, researchers and scholars. But each presents a unique set of experiences for the Board of Regents to consider as it makes the final choice.
A 21-person university search committee wrote the job description and selected its ideal candidates, coming up with a pool of finalists who won t repeat the controversy of the 2015 search that led to Harreld s hiring. Then, the university faced blowback for hiring an IBM executive with no experience in academic administration; at the time, only 2.6% of UI community members surveyed b