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Articles from September 2020
Congratulations Professor Vincent Rodgers for being elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives at its September meeting upon the recommendation of the APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public (FOEP)
Monday, September 28, 2020
Congratulations to Assistant Professor David Miles who was awarded $199,999 from NASA for his proposal titled “CubeSat Articulated Boom Option Optimization in Microgravity (CABOOM)”
Monday, September 28, 2020
Congratulations Graduate Students Kenneth Heitritter, Dustin Swarm and Jacob McLaughlin who were just each awarded a NASA Fellowship from the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC)
Friday, September 18, 2020
Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Kristine Sigsbee was awarded $509,549 from the 2019 Heliophysics Guest Investigator (H-GI) “Open” Program for her proposal titled “Ion Properties Associated with Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Waves”
Friday, September 18, 2020
Dr. Kristine Sigsbee, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded a $509,549.
Congratulations to ERD Machinist Christopher Pestalozzi for being one of two recipients for the inaugural Richard E. Gibson Merit Staff Award in Service!
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Award Information
Funded by a generous gift from the estate of Richard E. Gibson, this award is given annually to up to two individuals in the Merit classification.