Meet Our Newest Neighbor!
The downtown Iowa City space that once housed Whitey’s Ice Cream has found a new tenant, albeit a temporary one. Cindi Schrock, president of the not-for-profit Ten Thousand Villages of Iowa City Inc.’s board of…
Advancement in Medical Technology
Congratulations to Ryan Flynn, Xiadong Wu, Yunlong Kiu, Quentin Adams, Drake Edwards, Shirin Enger & Brittany Woodin for their advancements in Rotating Shield Brachytherapy. We admire the dedication and hard-work you have put into this…
Bellin-Blank Junior Scholars Building Hover Cars with 3D Design
Creativity flies high this week in our design studio! Check out this article by the Press Citizen to see what eighteen 12-14 year old students in the Bellin-Blank Junior Scholars Institute are learning about design…
James Wetzel and M.C. Ginsberg
The Belin-Blank Center is lucky to have many great teachers who work with the programs we offer. One of these teachers, James Wetzel, is an experimental high energy particle physicist with the Compact Muon Solenoid…
UI, M.C. Ginsberg team up to offer prototyping services to aspiring inventors
Mark Ginsberg, owner of M.C. Ginsberg, believes the artistic eye also plays a role. Ginsberg’s shop has been creating custom 3D models of medical devices for nearly 30 years, and has operated a 3D printer since…
3D printing and the College of Public Health
“Making human tissue and deadly pathogens become a work of art. One Iowa City jeweler designer is taking 3d printing to a new level. Daily Iowan’s Inma Mateos shows how he is working with the…
Thinking in 3D
When it comes to 3-D printing, Mark Ginsberg likes to refer to himself as a “mass customizer.” Read more here.
Jeweler helps U of I surgeons by making 3-D human organs
The ideal tools for Turek are three-dimensional models of specific patients’ hearts that doctors can observe from all sides, and the physician has teamed up with an unlikely partner to get them: the owner of…
Pathogen Art and the American Public Health Association
The University of Iowa College of Public Health is participating in the American Public Health Association’s the annual meeting in Boston, MA, Nov. 2-6. This is the premier public health educational forum in the United…
Retirees Shown 3-D Printing Capabilities
Three-dimensional printing, along with beautiful art jewelry, highlighted visits by UIRA members Sept. 19 and 24, 2013, to M. C. Ginsberg: Objects of Art in downtown Iowa City. A total of about 50 retirees were…
Where The Heart Is
Ginsberg has partnered with people from a variety of industries — including UI physicians in disciplines such as otolaryngology, neurology, orthopedics and, most recently, cardiac surgery — to create whatever odds and ends they need.
M.C. Ginsberg: A Unique Jewelry Store in Iowa City
Mark Ginsberg has revamped his jewelry store into a multi-purpose-facilty now including research which has accomplished remarkable projects in a variety of areas. View original article
What is Creativity?
Iowa’s Creative Corridor stretches from Iowa City to Cedar Rapids. Watch the video
A printer that could one day save lives
Go up the stairs, and upcoming projects are being played with by designers, molds of ideas ranging from a cicada killer to parts of the human body are being tweaked. “Some call us the mad…