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Iowa students help develop NASA satellites
Monday, November 4, 2024
This story from the University of Iowa Graduate College tells how graduate students Connor Feltman (now a postdoctoral research fellow/scholar) and Allison Flores contribute to the TRACERS mission, which seeks to answer long-standing questions about space weather.
Miles, Jaynes to provide Instrumentation for NASA’s LOBSTR Mission
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Professors Allison Jaynes and David Miles from the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will provide instrumentation for the LabOratory for the Behavior of the SloT Region (LOBSTR) mission.
DeRoo To Evaluate CMOS Sensors for NASA Astrophysics Missions
Thursday, October 17, 2024
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has awarded Associate Professor Casey DeRoo a $24,225 grant to evaluate the suitability of commercially available CMOS sensors for small satellite missions. These missions will conduct observations in the X-ray bandwidth to achieve scientific objectives relevant to NASA Astrophysics.
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In annual research expenditures (averaged over FY18-22)
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Research Activity
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3100
Students taught in introductory courses per year (2017-2022)
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Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Majors
(2023-24)
72
Graduate Students
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