GE CLAS Core: Natural Sciences

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GE CLAS Core: Natural Sciences

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Martin Named Outstanding Teaching Assistant

Thursday, April 17, 2025
Graduate student Brady Martin was named a recipient of the 2024-25 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recognizes teaching assistants who have demonstrated outstanding abilities at the University of Iowa.

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.
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$ 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)