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News and Announcements
Buffo Earns NASA's FINESST Award
Physics Alumni Awarded Grant to Investigate 'Brain on a Chip'
Jaynes awarded the 2023 AGU James B. Macelwane Medal

Professor Craig Kletzing
Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble University of Iowa professor who combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics passed away on August 10, 2023.
$ 26 m
In annual research expenditures (averaged over FY18-22)
Top Fifth
of Global Universities in Physics
(U.S. News and World Reports 2022)
Very High
Research 1: Doctoral Universities
Research Activity
(Carnegie Classification)
29
Full-time Faculty
3100
Students taught in introductory courses per year (2017-2022)
117
Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Majors
68
Graduate Students in Physics and Astronomy