America’s Cultivation Corridor is hosting a webinar from 2-3 p.m. today on renewable fuels innovations and Iowa’s role in developing the industry’s next generation of technologies and diverse feedstocks. Featured speakers include Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig; Paul Nees, global book lead, renewables and carbon, Chevron Supply & Trading;…
Seven individuals associated with the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center will receive awards from the JPEC at an awards reception April 8, 2026, in the Old Capitol Museum.
Rita Musa, 9, attends Monroe Elementary School and in her spare time likes to draw and read the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book series. She’s also the CEO of Musa’s Lemonade, a new brand showing up around Des Moines, everywhere from Lua Brewing, xBk, Lachele’s Fine Foods and Manhattan…
The Iowa Economic Development Authority board last week approved assistance for several projects throughout the state, including two innovation companies located in Coralville and Iowa City. IEDA awarded two startups with loans. Coralville’s Pani Clean, Inc. is focused on removing nitrates at the source, converting them to useful products and…
UnityPoint Health has announced a new collaboration with Mayo Clinic Platform, a strategic initiative of Mayo Clinic that enables data-driven innovation and health care transformation for clinicians across the globe. Through this collaboration, UnityPoint Health is the first health care organization to join a new program called Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights,…
Seattle-based Interlune is partnering with Vermeer on an excavating job that’s out of this world. Space-mining company Interlune develops technology and equipment to mine natural resources on the moon to be used in commercial applications here on Earth. Vermeer, meanwhile, builds industrial-grade digging equipment for excavation at its headquarters in…
The Iowa Rural Development Council has selected five projects for small business development grants, ranging from an Eastern Iowa community of 1,100 to a Northwest Iowa three-county region. In its second cohort, the Rural Business Initiative will provide grants of at least $30,000 to the recipients, who can use the…
Iowa State University and the University of Iowa are ranked on the Princeton Review’s 2026 ranking of undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies. ISU’s program ranked at No. 9 nationally and No. 4 in the Midwest, and University of Iowa was ranked No. 17 nationally and No. 7 in the Midwest. The…
Nurses are on the front lines solving problems in health care and the University of Iowa Office of Innovation is stepping up to support their ideas. The Office of Innovation provides support to faculty and staff who invent approaches, processes and technologies to solve pressing problems. Its Iowa Nurse Innovators…
A new tool to help patients with chronic lung diseases, being studied at the University of Iowa College of Engineering, has received $2.55 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research program. Suresh Raghavan, professor of biomedical engineering, and Syed Mubeen, associate professor of chemical…