College of Nursing students will partner with the City of Granger to plan and implement a community health fair that promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention for residents of all ages. 

Building on community assessment activities completed during the fall semester, the project team will collaborate with local partners to deliver evidence-informed health education, screenings, and community resources tailored to Granger's identified health priorities.

Master of Public Affairs graduate students in the School of Planning & Public Affairs will design an age-friendly community initiative for the Granger, Iowa community. 

Communities across the state and country, especially in rural places, are experiencing rapid demographic shifts. Aging will be an increasingly important issue in Iowa, particularly over the next couple of decades as the baby boomer generation enters late stages of life. 

Urban Regional Planning graduate students in the School of Planning & Public Affairs will partner with the City of Granger to create a Parks and Trails master plan that provides a comprehensive vision for Granger’s local park system, recreation facilities, natural resources, and other public open spaces. 

University of Iowa alumni and artist Emily Edwards will partner with the City of Granger to design and install a mural on an exterior wall of the community center in Granger, Iowa.

IISC will partner with Lyon County to conduct a comprehensive housing needs assessment and develop informed recommendations for county-wide housing policy.

County leadership recognizes the need for a data-driven understanding of housing demand, affordability, and development opportunities to support residents, employers, and long-term economic growth in Lyon County.

As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students will create proposals for the adaptive reuse of the Larchwood Community Center.

The City of Larchwood is exploring opportunities to repurpose its old community center to better serve current and future community needs. The City is seeking engineering recommendations that evaluate multiple adaptive reuse alternatives and provide conceptual designs to help inform future investment decisions.

As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students will create designs for development of a new residential neighborhood in Inwood, as well as a stormwater management plan for the site. 

As part of the Senior Design Capstone Course in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a group of students will develop plans and designs for flood impact mitigation in the city of George, Iowa along Rio Grande Creek.

For their capstone project in Civil & Environmental Engineering, a team of students completed a preliminary design for a baseball and softball quadplex in Maquoketa, Iowa. 

As part of the ICIGO student organization within the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, students conducted a land value mapping study.

ICIGO students utilized 2025 assessor data and GIS to visualize the assessed value of land in West Branch, normalized by determining the value of the each parcel by one acre. The resulting map provides a snapshot of relative value by land use, which can inform local officials about future land use decisions. 

University of Iowa MFA alumni Philip Rabalais partnered with the City of West Branch and IISC to create a short film sharing the history of West Branch. Olivia (Ollie) Naber, an English and Creative Writing Major at Iowa, served as the film's narrator. Ollie's hometown is West Branch.

For their capstone project in Civil and Environmental Engineering, a team of students worked to improve the functioning of downtown area streets by creating updated designs for downtown roads and sidewalks.

For their capstone project in Civil & Environmental Engineering, a team of students worked to improve the functionality of West Branch streets by designing a safer, more efficient truck route.

For their capstone project in Civil and Environmental Engineering, a team of students developed a comprehensive plan to evaluate, prioritize, and design utility replacements in a subdivision in West Branch. 

The City of West Branch aims to balance historical identity with the demands of a growing community, necessitating the modernization of aging core infrastructure. City officials sought assitance on a process for identifying and prioritizing projects in order to best utilize limited public funding. 

As part of their Senior Design Capstone Course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students designed a Public Safety Building to meet the needs of the growing city of Granger.

Currently the Granger Fire & EMS Department shares a small building on Main Street with Granger City Hall and an adjacent trailer serves as headquarters for the Granger Police Department. These departments have outgrown their current spaces and seek a new building that will house all three departments.

A team of students in the College of Law's Community Empowerment Law Project supported Scattergood Friends School & Farm in a process to evaluate models of self-governance. 

Authors: Crystal Aguero-Norman, Christopher Cumberbatch, Sara Ernst, Kieran Kohorst, Kathryn Linehan

Instructor: Daria Fisher Page

Community project leads: John Zimmerman

As part of their Senior Design Capstone Course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students proposed designs for the current site of the Bethel AME Church in Clinton. 

As part of their Senior Design Capstone Course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students provided design and analysis support for an integrated parks and environmental engineering project along Mud Creek in Bondurant.

For their capstone project, Civil and Environmental Engineering students examined potential reuse of two six-pack silos in Bondurant.

For their capstone project in Civil and Environmental Engineering, a team of students evaluated upgrades to enable future improvements for Cleaveland Park in Bondurant.

Stormwater constraints currently restrict improvements to Cleaveland Park. Students evaluateed potential stormwater upgrades within the park parcel and the surrounding area that could enable future park improvements. Students prepared detailed design plans to support development of Cleaveland Park as a neighborhood public amenity.