The Center for Hydrologic Development joins a cooperative of other research institutes sharing approaches like this with its peer institutions. Iowa will receive $21 million from the collaborative.

The University of Iowa is launching the Center for Hydrologic Development, a new research center to improve flood prediction.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering is home to a new research center—the Center for Hydrologic Development (CHD)—that is designed to improve the country’s ability to predict and manage water-related hazards.

The University of Iowa will work on a new Center for Hydrologic Development facility in partnership with the University of Alabama, the UI announced in a press conference on Wednesday.

The University of Iowa is opening a new research center that will focus on improving the ability to predict and manage water-related hazards such as flooding.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering is home to a new research center—the Center for Hydrologic Development (CHD)—that is designed to improve the country’s ability to predict and manage water-related hazards. It will work off of a lot of the research that’s already been done at the Iowa Flood Center.

The University of Iowa is launching a new hydrologic development research center to predict floods and drought.

The new research center is designed to improve the country's ability to predict and manage water-related hazards. The center will operate under the university's college of engineering and also partner with the Iowa Flood Center.

Witold Krajewski, director of the Iowa Flood Center, and Kristy Nabhan-Warren, associate vice president for research, will deliver Iowa’s 40th presidential Lecture at 4 p.m. March 2 in the International Ballroom on the second floor of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Riley Post was named the winner of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a university wide contest that tasks graduate students with relating their research in three minutes or less to a general audience.