Iowa JPEC hosted the second phase of Innovation Challenge on April 10-11, awarding $225,000 during in 2022-23 to support innovation across campus. It is open to all University of Iowa faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, and incubator startups. The second phase of Innovation Challenge was a business model canvas pitch competition. 36 out of 57 UI businesses were selected as finalists. Awardees include: - second-place $3,000 winners Nader Rahhal (Economics | Computer Science), Andy Lou (CS), and Gautam Sharda (CS) for "Student Sublet" in Best Technology category; - Idea Stage $500 Awardee Diego Sanchez (Medical Informatics)

The full list of recognized faculty and staff included the following from the UI Computer Science Department:...

Several Eastern Iowa television news outfits recently visited Prof. Juan Pablo Hourcade and PhD student and collaborator Flannery Currin to discuss this ongoing research. Stay tuned for "Story Carnival" discussion on Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa Thursday, April 20 at 10am!

The Pomerantz Career Center has selected Computer Science as a recipient of a 2023 Career Impact Award in the category of Highly Engaged Academic Department!

Mia Dukle (Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics); Maneesh John (Computer Science and Engineering); and Hannah Back (Data Science)

Ryan Policheri, who had received UIowaCS's own Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for his work in 2021-22, was recently granted a UI Council on Teaching Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2022-23!

As part of their work with the OTLT Center for Teaching, graduate teaching fellows design a pedagogical project based on their interests. In this Q&A, we feature Osama Khalid, UI Department of Computer Science, who opted to research, design, and facilitate a campus-wide teaching workshop. Join Khalid for his event, Learn from Your Teaching, on Tuesday, March 21, from noon to 1 p.m. in University Capitol Centre 2390.

Fifteen students shared $5,000 in prize money at the Spring IdeaStorm competition Feb. 15. The event was presented by the University of Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. This includes: - first-place $500 winner Subasree Balamurali (Computer Science MCS) for Creative Concepts category; - Consumer Solutions awardees John Piaszynski (Computer Science BS | Statistics BS) and Joslin Some (Computer Science & Engineering BSE); in second and third place, respectively.

University of Iowa alumna Kawther Rouabhi, now in a Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her talk at the AGU Fall Meeting Dec. 12-16, 2022 in Chicago. The honor is awarded for only the most exceptional presentations during the meeting, as determined by judge evaluations.

Congrats to all University of Iowa Dare to Discover '23 campaign rising stars! Special shout out to our own Computer Science students Flannery Currin (CS PhD) and Floyd Evans, Jr. ('22 CS BS | Microbiology BA; now Genetics PhD), as well as IGPI Informatics PhD scholars Han Bao , Bekir Demiray, and Rachel Shrode.