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Diba Malekpour Koupaei presents at the 17th International IBPSA Building Simulation Conference
Diba Malekpour Koupaei, PhD candidate in the Civil Engineering Department at Iowa State University, presented the team’s most recent research efforts on developing a workflow… Read More

September 14, 2021
Team paper published in Frontiers journal: Food-Energy-Water Nexus’ Effects on Urban Infrastructure
The Iowa Urban FEWS team published its first overview paper Iowa Urban FEWS: Integrating Social and Biophysical Models for Exploration of Urban Food, Energy,… Read More

May 18, 2021
Oluwatobiloba Fagbule and Rushi Patel present “Utilizing a novel mobile diagnostics lab to validate the impact of vegetative wall coverings in building cooling load reduction” at the NCUR 2021 Event
Undergraduate Iowa State research students Oluwatobiloba Fagbule in Architecture and Rushi Patel in Mechanical Engineering presented their research on “Validating the impact of vegetative wall coverings… Read More

April 27, 2021
Iowa UrbanINFEWS Team Presents at ISU Research Day, Spring 2021
Jan Thompson (Associate Professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management at ISU), Baskar Ganapathysubramanian (Professor, Mechanical Engineering at ISU), Wei Chen (Ph.D. Student, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, ISU), Michael Dorneich… Read More

April 13, 2021
Ulrike Passe & Baskar Ganapathysubramanian publish paper “Computational study of natural ventilation in a sustainable building with complex geometry”
Ulrike Passe, associate professor of architecture and director of the ISU Center for Building Energy Research, collaborated with Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, professor of mechanical engineering; Fei Xu (PhD 2018… Read More

April 13, 2021
Iowa Urban FEWS team welcomes Tássia Mattos Brighenti
The Iowa Urban FEWS team is welcoming Tássia Mattos Brighenti to the team in March 2021. Tassia is Brazilian and graduated in with a B.S. Read More

March 18, 2021
Study: Crop diversification can improve environmental outcomes without sacrificing yields
AMES, Iowa – A new study shows diversifying agricultural systems beyond a narrow selection of crops leads to a range of ecosystem improvements while also… Read More

November 30, 2020
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a virtual workshop!
On July 22 and 23, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a virtual workshop titled ‘Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Building a More Sustainable,… Read More

July 22, 2020
LCA and TEA of Conventional Versus Local Production of Vegetables for US Midwest Cities, presented by Tiffanie Stone at ASABE 2020.
“LCA and TEA of Conventional Versus Local Production of Vegetables for US Midwest Cities”, was presented by Tiffanie Stone at ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and… Read More

July 20, 2020
Iowa UrbanFEWS project contributes to new benchmark in federal research funding
Iowa State University received $253 million in external sponsored research funding, including a new record of $186 million in federal research funding, for… Read More

July 16, 2020