Assistant Professor and RAD Lab director, Deema Totah, presented her talk "Engineering a Place for Palestine in Multidisciplinary Research" at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. This was part of a two-day symposium entitled "A Lens Onto Ourselves: Gaza and a Reckoning for Urban Planning." Learn more at https://dusp.mit.edu/events/lens-ourselves-gaza-and-reckoning-urban-planning www.alensontoourselves.com

Professors Deema Totah (ME) and Stephanie Miracle (Dance) will be presenting their paper "Vulnerability is Your Friend: Co-Creating Robots with Dancers" at the 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) this May in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to Prof. Casey Harwood and high school intern Jinann Abudagga for their contributions to robot ideation, design, and operation.

RAD Lab team members Samira Afshari (ME), George Elias (ME), and Braeden Harrell (BME) attended the ASB Conference along with Dr. Deema Totah this summer.

This year at the Innovation Challenge through the Papajohn Entrepreneurial Center, the Iowa JPEC awarded a total of $135,000 to support innovation across campus and beyond. A total of 29 startups won a cash prize at the Spring Innovation Challenge including RAD Lab student Xandra McGlasson, who was awarded $1,000 and an honorable mention for her work on the Abel Table project in the Undergraduate Awards section. Congratulations Xandra!

Congratulations to Marissa McFadden for successfully defending her master's thesis in BME on Wed April 10th, 2024!