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Tim Schoon - Staff Photographer - The University of Iowa
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News and Announcements
CLAS students win first place in Upper Midwest Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The recently formed University of Iowa Ethics Bowl team, led by second-year physics and chemistry student Arissa Khan, bested 20 competing teams in the Midwest.
Wen Honored for Presentation at AGU24
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Yuanzheng Wen, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his talk at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting Dec. 9-13, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Space Scientists Discover 128 New Moons Orbiting Saturn
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
In this Radio Iowa interview, Prof. Allison Jaynes discusses the discovery of 128 more moons orbiting Saturn, for a total of 274, far more than its larger neighbor Jupiter, with just 95 moons. Jaynes says she’s betting Saturn has still more moons that we haven’t spotted yet.
$ 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)