LATEST NEWS6/25/2025: Dr. Dong spoke on How Sensors Are Transforming Modern Agriculture.
6/19/2025: Congratulations to Shihao on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Yin, well done! 5/24/2025: The Iowa Soybean Research Center featured a news article about our plant sensors: Deep Sensing to Monitor Soybean Health. 5/21/2025: Congrats to Sohini on passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam. 5/19/2025: Congrats to Adnan on completing the MS degree requirements! 5/15/2025: Dr. Dong was part of the Agrivoltaics team that received the 2025 ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interdisciplinary Team Research. 4/3/2025: Congratulations to Qinming on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis (co-advised by Dr. Meng Lu and Dr. Dong)! BIG Congrats, Dr. Zhang! 3/21/2025: Nawab's wearable sensor work for monitoring of plant reactive oxygen species has been reported by ACS, The Times, MSN, Phys.org, Eurekalert!, Bioengineer, Azosensors, SciTechDaily, Morning AgClips, ScienceDaily . 1/17/2025: Congratulations to Raufur for successfully passing his prelim exam! 12/19/2024: In collaboration with Iowa Learning Farms, our NSF SCC project team organized a virtual workshop: "Virtual Field Day - Smart Agricultural Drainage: Tools to sense tile health and nitrate hot spots." The recording of the workshop is available here. 12/16/2024: A new research project was funded by USDA-NIFA ($591k, 3 years) to develop a sensing technology for assessing multiplex plant stress status. 9/18/2024: CropX Acquires EnGeniousAg for Breakthrough Nitrogen Sensing Technology. 8/16/2024: A new research project was funded by NSF to develop software-defined STAR-RIS for robust and intelligent internet of things. 7/25/2024: Dr. Yang Tian graduated with a Ph.D. degree. Congrats! 6/5/2024: As part of our NSF smart and connected community project, Iowa Learning Farms organized two Rapid Needs Assessment and Response (RNR) Workshops on Smart Agricultural Drainage Systems, one at the Borlaug Learning Center near Nashua (June 4), the other at Northwest Research Farm near Sutherland (June 5). These two workshops were designed for farmers and landowners to highlight new innovation in smart agricultural drainage systems. 8/7/2023: A new project ($2M; 4 years) was funded by NSF to develop green fertilizer, aiming to mitigate the challenges posed upon climate change-threatened farming and ranching communities. 5/4/2023: AgTech sensor startup EnGeniousAg wins $1 million award from the National Science Foundation. 12/12/2022: A new project ($1.8M federal funds) was selected by DOE for funding. Led by Ajay Nair, the project studies various approaches to food crop production and beekeeping at solar farms. 11/22/2022: Congrats to Seth for a successful PhD dissertation defense. Congrats, Dr. Heerschap! 10/10/2022: A new grant ($1.2M) was awarded by USDA-NIFA to develop new sensors for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. 8/16/2022: A new grant ($276k) was awarded by USDA-ARS to develop sensors for animal disease diagnostics. 7/21/2022: Congrats to Hussam on passing his PhD dissertation defense, Dr. Ibrahim! 1/7/2022: In the news: Liang Dong named director of Microelectronics Research Center. 11/17/2021: Congrats to Le! Le Wei received his PhD degree. Congratulations to Dr. Wei! 10/29/2021: Congrats to Qinming Zhang who received Young Researcher Poster Award at uTAS 2021. The title of the paper is "On-chip analysis of swine respiratory viruses using magnetic nanoparticle-enhanced photonic crystal biosensor." 10/13/2021: Dr. Dong and Dr. Whitham at received two years of funding from Iowa Soybean Research Center to develop sensors for soybean research. 8/14/2021: A team led by Dr. Dong received a $1.75M award from NSF CNS program. Read more ... |
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Contact: Dr. Liang DongPhone: 515-294-0388
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