Archive: 2025

Shana Moothedath receives NSF CAREER Award to develop efficient, safe multi-task learning algorithms
Shana Moothedath’s research develops multi-task learning algorithms that leverage problem structures to enable efficient, privacy-preserving learning in dynamic systems while addressing data heterogeneity, communication efficiency, scalability, and safety constraints. Read More

August 20, 2025
At the intersection of theory and practice, Mahtab Goudarzi innovates infrastructure monitoring
Finding ways to predict the unpredictable, Mahtab Goudarzi is using data to enhance intelligent infrastructure in traffic signage for intense wind events. Read More

August 20, 2025
Batu Candan earns Air Force Office of Scientific Research Travel Award
Awarded by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in recognition of the quality of a recent research paper. Read More

August 15, 2025
Devanshi Mistry earns Best Poster Award
Presentation title - "Integrating Fermentation and Electrocatalysis: Regenerating Platinum Catalysts Poisoned by Sulfur-Containing Biogenic Impurities". Read More

August 14, 2025
Alice Alipour named ASCE Iowa Section’s 2025 Outstanding Civil Engineer
The honor is awarded annually to a Member or Fellow of the Iowa Section ASCE who is judged to have contributed substantially to the status of the engineering profession. Read More

August 4, 2025
Mohammad Tayeb Al Qaseer named Fellow of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing
His research focuses on microwave and millimeter-wave instrumentation and measurement and its application for nondestructive testing and 3D SAR imaging. He is also active in antenna design, electromagnetic image reconstruction, metamaterials, numerical electromagnetic analysis, and electromagnetic material characterization. Read More

July 29, 2025
Simone Servadio awarded first runner up for Pierre Le Candre Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award at the 28th International Conference on Information Fusion held in Rio de Janeiro, July 7-11 2025. Read More

July 23, 2025
Iowa State launches cybersecurity certificate to boost skills, build state’s workforce
Iowa State University is offering a new, online undergraduate certificate in cybersecurity to help strengthen the skills of workers and build the state’s workforce. Read More

July 21, 2025
Charred chunks in the blast box: reducing risk of battery fires, explosions
Todd Kingston, with the help of a federal grant, has equipped his lab with a unique instrument that allows him to test battery safety and performance. Yes, he said, "This allows us to safely blow up batteries." Read More

July 21, 2025
Beena Ajmera earns CELT Teaching Excellence Award in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The CELT Teaching Excellence Award in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is presented annually to recognize and celebrate one to three ISU faculty, staff, or administrators. Read More

July 16, 2025
CyMath builds math confidence for Ames students, valuable skills for mentors
For Namrata Vaswani, the Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professor in Engineering, improving college students’ success in STEM fields starts long before freshman year. Read More

July 15, 2025
Alexander Goldman: Stretching for new, better metal
Alexander Goldman hopes by adding just the right elements to magnesium he can make a lighter and stronger, more malleable metal option for manufacturing. Read More

July 9, 2025
Invention improves ‘gene gun,’ targets efficiency gains in plant research
Engineers and plant scientists worked together to improve a basic tool of plant research. Read More

July 3, 2025
Engineering history: Iowa State collaboration caps off historic farm State Fair exhibit
The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering embraced the challenge when alumni from the Iowa Barn Foundation had a vision for a 1910 glazed tile silo to appear at the Iowa State Fair. Read More

June 24, 2025
Wyatt Curtis lifts-off from undergraduate research to doctoral innovation
Wyatt appreciates the flexibility and the competitive but collaborative culture on campus that made his path possible; “I’m definitely proud to say that I got my engineering degree at Iowa State.” Read More

June 23, 2025