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Business Record 5-2-25

Cover Story: Greg Edwards: A portrait of progress Read the issue

By Business Record Staff | May 2, 2025

Greg Edwards: A portrait of progress

Greg Edwards will soon step down as president and CEO of Catch Des Moines after 25 years, saying the time is right for a change. Edwards, 69, came to Des Moines in late 2000, after holding the top job at the Peoria Convention and Visitors Bureau. Before that he worked at the convention and visitor’s…

By Michael Crumb | May 2, 2025

Fearless Focus recap: Four thoughts on women business owners

By Macey Shofroth | May 2, 2025

Iowa professors quest for innovation

Universities are hubs of innovation and research and the three state universities in Iowa are no exception. The Business Record went in search of the cutting-edge research and innovation happening now that could make Iowa’s workforce healthier, safer and more efficient. That research includes one professor’s quest to make a firefighter’s job safer using drones,…

By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025

Farmers, firefighters can benefit from UNI drone research

Dheryta Jaisinghani, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at the University of Northern Iowa, thinks about fire – and helping firefighters – a lot. It started when she was reading an article about fire. Then she watched some YouTube videos. And then last year, her daughter’s classmate lost her house in a…

By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025

First microgrid in Iowa to create reliable electric system in Montezuma

Zhaoyu Wang is working on creating Iowa’s first microgrid in a rural community – Montezuma. A microgrid is a small-scale power system featuring power generation from solar panels and a battery storage system. Wang is the project leader and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University. He is also affiliated with…

By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025

Mentor’s death inspires professor’s cancer treatment journey

Meeting Bruce Line was a seminal moment in Michael Schultz’s career that catapulted him into decades of exploration into a new, cutting-edge treatment for cancer. Schultz recalls publishing some papers on a rare alpha-emitting isotope and Line, the head of nuclear medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, took notice, saying that the alpha…

By Lisa Rossi | May 2, 2025

Power Breakfast panelists share advice on building resilience amid disruption

Over the past few months, business and nonprofit leaders have been met with a chain of current events nationally and locally that are creating uncertainty around how their organizations will be affected and how to provide steady leadership as circumstances fluctuate on a daily basis. At our upcoming Power Breakfast on May 15, we will…

By Sarah Diehn | May 2, 2025

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