A new makerspace at the Des Moines Area Community College West Des Moines Campus will host a free grand opening on June 13, from 3 to 6 p.m. The makerspace is designed for all ages to brainstorm and build on ideas, experimenting with electronics, robotics, digital communications, 3-D printing and more. “The DMACC West Des […]
Iowa State University ranks No. 83 worldwide in the number of patents granted within the United States last year, according to an announcement released by the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association.The Iowa State University Research Foundation was granted 32 patents in 2017. ISU is tied on the list with Texas A&M […]
Facebook’s Community Boost week is off and running over at Franklin Junior High School, where the tech giant announced a new marketing partnership with a Des Moines institution. Facebook and Des Moines Area Community College will soon offer the Facebook Digital Marketing Certificate to DMACC students, representatives announced at a policy and small-business roundtable with […]
AARP today announced a collaboration with technology company Orbita Inc. to study new digital approaches for remote patient monitoring and for reducing social isolation. The work will guide ongoing development of solutions providing intuitive in-home access to information and tools to improve self-care among adults. Research shows that health outcomes improve when patients more fully […]
Dan Cosgrove, Vice President of Business Development for Corteva Agriscience, and Katherine Harrington, innovationIOWA Magazine sales manager, unveil the 2018 innovationIOWA Magazine cover on May 25. Our lovely magazine released issue No. 5 at the innovationIOWA Magazine unveiling! If you joined us at Corteva Agriscience – Agriculture Division of DowDuPont last Thursday, thank you for […]
BUZZFEED NEWS: A Sydney man is appealing the court’s decision after he was convicted of traveling without a valid train ticket. Biohacker and real person Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, 33, was fined in August 2017 for boarding a train without a ticket. Except he’d already paid, Meow-Meow argued: four months earlier, Meow-Meow had a travel […]
University of Iowa startup Verdlilife has won $50,000 after demonstrating a new agricultural cleaning process, the Corridor Business Journal reports. Mahdi Eghbali, Ph.D. candidate in economics at UI, was awarded for his pitch at the MegaWatt Ventures competition this month. Verdilife uses a proprietary process known as the Nano-Intelligent Smokeless Bio-Char System to transform wood […]
At the start of 2017, chemical engineer Meredith Smith was frustrated by the statistics of workers in her industry. Women held 24 percent of all science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs, and only 14 percent of engineers are women, the U.S. Department of Commerce reports. Looking deeper, the National Science Foundation’s annual indicators report […]
Imagine you found out that all of your neighbors, like you, were planning to sell their homes within the next 10 years. Might that ignite a greater sense of urgency about when you get your own house on the market? The majority of small-business owners in Iowa face a comparable scenario as they and their […]
Jeff Weld has been running the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council since July 2011, but he’s on leave to serve as senior policy adviser on STEM education for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is an associate professor of biology at the University of Northern Iowa. How do you personally define […]