David Cwiertny is the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Policy Research Program at the University of Iowa. His research specializes in the development of nanomaterials based approaches for resource sustainability and the environmental occurrence, fate and effects of emerging pollutant classes. At the UI, he directs the state-funded Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination, which conducts research to identify, measure, and prevent...

"Chasing Raman Fingerprints of Emerging Contaminants in Environmental Matrices"

Anthony Schlimgen- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 

Valerie Payre, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Iowahttps://ees.uiowa.edu/people/valerie-payreResearch Interests: Planetary evolution, Magmatic processes, Surface processes, Remote sensing, Rover, Experimental petrology, Thermodynamical modelinghttps://valeriepayre.weebly.com/Title: "Mars Volcanism: An Unexpected Complexity"Abstract: This last decade, rover observations and martian meteorites revealed unexpected complex volcanic processes. Thought to be...

"Halodefluorination of Unactivated Trifluoromethyl Compounds and MOFs Doped with Boronic Acid for Glucose Sensing"

"Environmental Chemistry at the Nexus of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Health"

"Electroactive Polymers with Sulfur-Nitrogen Backbones: Characterization of Novel Electrochemical Materials"

"trans-Banglene as a neurotrophic agent"

Get ahead on your research skills! These workshops are designed for graduate students and faculty but also open to undergraduates. What’s the best way to organize your research files so you, or you and your collaborators, can find what you need when you need it? What are best practices for naming files?  What is a README and why is it important? Attendees will come away with practical skills and tips for organizing research data in a way that is navigable across files and folders.  Come to this...