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A record number of young investigators secure prestigious funding in FY23

Xuan Song, James A. Chisman Faculty Fellow and associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, is featured in this article about the University of Iowa's rising research stars.
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Song's CAREER award featured by College of Engineering dean (video)

Monday, April 3, 2023
A CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation is one of the highest honors an early-career faculty member can receive. In this short video, Dean Harriet Nembhard highlights two of the college's recent CAREER winners, Assistant Professors Casey Harwood and Xuan Song.
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Xuan Song receives prestigious NSF CAREER award to research novel ceramic manufacturing methods

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Xuan Song, University of Iowa engineering professor, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to advance research of ceramic additive manufacturing, which could benefit industries, including health care, defense, and energy. 
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University of Iowa professor honored for 3D printing innovations

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Xuan Song, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Iowa, is among 22 recipients of the 2022 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
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UI professor expanding 3D printing named among nation’s outstanding young manufacturing engineers

Xuan Song, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Iowa, is among 22 recipients of the 2022 Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Song, whose work focuses on innovations in 3D printing, is also a faculty researcher at the Iowa Technology Institute, a research arm of the UI College of Engineering.
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ISE PhD student to participate in National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Levi Kirby, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a research assistant at the Iowa Technology Institute, has been selected as one of 60 participants for the highly competitive 2021 National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering to be held virtually from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.
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UI engineers receive nearly $1 million to develop new methods to recycle paper into fiber reinforced plastic

Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Engineers at the University of Iowa are working to enhance the process of turning wastepaper into high-value fiber reinforced plastic (FRP).
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Critical research continues at the Iowa Technology Institute

Thursday, December 31, 2020
While University of Iowa campus activities have largely gone virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research at the Iowa Technology Institute (ITI) is among the critical functions approved to proceed in person.
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ITI seed grants empower researchers to reach for new knowledge

Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A seed grant program launched by University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI) to empower researchers to develop new theories, concepts, and approaches has been leveraged to secure externally funded research grants to advance knowledge and ultimately benefit society.
Levi Kirby works with a 3D printer

AMPRL Lab researcher earns prestigious graduate scholarship

Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Levi Kirby, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a graduate research assistant for the University of Iowa Technology Institute, has received the E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship from the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME).