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News and Announcements
DeRoo Presents at Willowwind School
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Assistant Professor Casey DeRoo gave a presentation to 80 K-6 students on June 26 at Willowind School's summer camp, talking about outer space, what stuff there is made of, and how we know/measure the composition of things in space.
Uppu receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Ravitej Uppu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will use a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to expand his research of electronic and photonic properties.
Outreach Team Presents Soldering Project for Project HOPE
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
As part of the Project HOPE career education program, the Hawk-Eyes on Science team of Dale Stille, Vincent Rodgers, Emma Burzynski, and Caroline Roberts conducted a soldering demonstration on May 16 for West Liberty High School students in Van Allen Hall.
$ 26 m
In annual research expenditures (averaged over FY18-22)
Top Fifth
of Global Universities in Physics
(U.S. News and World Report 2022)
Very High
Research 1: Doctoral Universities
Research Activity
(Carnegie Classification)
24
Full-time Faculty
3100
Students taught in introductory courses per year (2017-2022)
124
Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Majors
(2023-24)
72
Graduate Students
(2023-24)