NOTE: The April 4th occurrence in this series will move to the Old Capitol Museum for a very special Art & Write Night!Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend...

David Cwiertny is the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program at the University of Iowa. His research specializes in the development of nanomaterials based approaches for resource sustainability and the environmental occurrence, fate and effects of emerging pollutant classes. At the UI, he directs the state-funded Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, which conducts research to identify, measure, and prevent...

A discussion of historical perspectives on science, the state, and the public trust with Department of History faculty Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Shane Bobrycki, Robert Rouphail, Nicholas Yablon, and Beth Yale This event is part of Iowa City Darwin Day Science Fest, a celebration of science and its many contributions to humanity, which takes place on April 3, 4 & 5. The 2025 speakers are Tyrone Hayes (UC Berkeley), Chris Jones (Iowa Driftless Water Defenders), and David Cwiertny (Civil...

Tyrone Hayes is the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair for Innovative Teaching and Research and a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the role of steroid hormones in amphibian development and he conducts both laboratory and field studies in the U.S. and Africa. The two main areas of interest are metamorphosis and sex differentiation, but he is also interested in growth (larval and adult) and hormonal regulation of aggressive behavior...

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.Title: Dynamic Landscape of Healthcare Access in the United States: Evaluating Rural-Urban Differences in Availability, Accessibility, and UtilizationAbstract: Receiving health care in the U.S. is complex. Not only does a patient have to find a doctor but may also have to consider if the doctor takes the patients insurance, ensure the care need can be provided by this doctor at this facility, and can the...

Dr. Grant Ferguson (Univeristy of Saskatchewan) presenting as part of the National Ground Water Association Darcy Lecture Title: "Deep Groundwater and Deep Time" The volume of continental groundwater is enormous, rivalling the amount found in ice sheets. Fluxes from groundwater to surface water are responsible for generating a substantial portion of streamflow globally but these fluxes are dominated by relatively shallow groundwaters (<500 m deep) and have short residence times. Deeper...

The Sustainability Case Competition is an opportunity for undergraduate students to utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve real sustainability problems. The case competition kicks off with a Welcome Event on the evening of Friday, April 11. Saturday, April 12 is an all-day event featuring 5-hours of case solving within teams, presentations of teams’ case solutions, and a dinner/award ceremony in the evening. The Sustainability Case Competition is hosted by the Tippie...

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.Title: Quantifying Scale Dependence of Hydraulic Conductivity in Glacial Sediments for Improving Predictions of Plume BehaviorAbstract:Methods targeting a range of measurement scales are used to quantify the variability in hydraulic conductivity (K) for ice marginal sediments comprising a shallow unconfined aquifer at a contaminated groundwater site. Grain size analysis is used to estimate K at the decimeter...

Title: New Silurian trilobites from the Sexton Creek Formation, southeastern Missouri Abstract: Little work has been done on the Sexton Creek Formation, a fossiliferous limestone deposit located in southeastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. Only one species of trilobite, Dalmanites croneisi Ball and Delo, 1940, has previously been reported from the unit. Recent conodont work has constrained the age of the unit to Telychian, with the lower part possibly Aeronian. Current research primarily...

The general audience will be invited to leave after the presentation and Q & A session.Title: Comparing major- and trace-element geochemistry of the Ireviken Biogeochemical Event using bulk-rock and partial digestion methodsAbstract: The Silurian has several distinguishable excursions in the C and O isotope curve. The Ireviken Extinction Event spans the Llandovery-Wenlock boundary and is characterized by a massive loss of trilobite and conodont species. A positive carbon isotope excursion also...

We welcome everyone to the first annual “MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium” that will be held on April 18, 2025 in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories Building on the University of Iowa campus. The purpose of the symposium is to highlight advances and applications in materials science across all scientific disciplines.  Schedule of Events Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) Workshop 1–2:30 p.m. IATL 104 Join Drs. Michael Sinnwell and Jackie Feng as they explain the...

Presenter: Allison Bair, Research Associate at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ Education: B.A., Geoscience, Univeristy of Iowa, 2000; M.S. Quaternary Sciences, Northern Arizona University, 2004 Talk Title: "The Chemical and Physical Properties of Comets: Results from 50 Years of Narrowband Measurements at Lowell Observatory" Investigations of the chemical and physical properties of comets reveal unique clues to conditions in the early solar nebula and the solar system's formation processes...

Celebrate Earth Day 2025! Trowbridge Hall - First Floor (Main Entrance off Cleary Walkway) Sponsored by the Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geographical & Sustainability Sciences Departments

Get ahead on your research skills! These workshops are designed for graduate students and faculty but also open to undergraduates. What’s the best way to organize your research files so you, or you and your collaborators, can find what you need when you need it? What are best practices for naming files?  What is a README and why is it important? Attendees will come away with practical skills and tips for organizing research data in a way that is navigable across files and folders.  Come to this...

Presenter: Dr. Kathleen Surpless, Earth & Environmental Geosciences, Trinity University - San Antonio, TX Talk Title: "The Galice and Mariposa Formations, California and Oregon: A Detrital Zircon Record of the Late Jurassic Cordilleran Margin"

NOTE: The April 4th occurrence in this series will move to the Old Capitol Museum for a very special Art & Write Night!Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend...

Presenter: Dr. Carlton E. Brett, College of Arts & Sciences: Department of Geosciences, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) Talk Title: TBD

NOTE: The April 4th occurrence in this series will move to the Old Capitol Museum for a very special Art & Write Night!Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend...

What types of plants, animals, and fungal life might you find at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory? Let's find out!  Join researchers in collecting, observing, and recording biodiversity at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory in our 5th Annual BioBlitz. Your findings will inform a major research project and will contribute to the fifth data point in a multi-year documentation of how diversity changes at this site over time. Collections will be housed with the UI Museum of Natural History...

NOTE: The April 4th occurrence in this series will move to the Old Capitol Museum for a very special Art & Write Night!Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend...