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News and Announcements
UI Still Operating Voyager Plasma Wave Instrument
Friday, November 8, 2024
Voyager spacecraft paved the way for our understanding of our solar system, but they are now over 15 billion miles away from Earth. It takes light and radio signals about 23 hours to reach it one way, and it is still changing our understanding of the cosmos.
The instruments still onboard and operational were built, and are still operated by, the University of Iowa's Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Undergrads Present Posters at FURF
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Thirteen Physics and Astronomy students presented posters at the Fall Undergraduate Research Festival (FURF) on Nov. 6 at the University Capitol Centre. The Office of Undergraduate Research hosts FURF, held in celebration and recognition of undergraduate researchers' contributions to research, scholarly, and creative work at the University of Iowa.
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.
$ 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)