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Articles from October 2020

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Congratulations to Physics & Astronomy’s Design Engineer Michael Miller who’s pending patent has enabled other UI researchers to advance their research in diabetes

Friday, October 23, 2020

https://stories.uiowa.edu/electromagnetic-fields-blood-sugar

Congratulations to Professor Jasper Halekas who has been appointed to serve on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032: Panel on Mars

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/planetary-science-and-astrobiology-decadal-survey-2023-2032-panel-on-mars

The Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy halo

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

https://now.uiowa.edu/2020/10/milky-way-galaxy-has-clumpy-halo?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=noonnews

Professor Philip Kaaret’s findings from observations made by HaloSat, which is primed to look at the X-rays emitted by the circumgalactic medium (CGM) are discussed in article titled “Astronomers say Milky Way has a clumpy halo”

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/astronomers-say-milky-way-has-a-clumpy-halo-39641931.html

Fall 2020 Virtual Public Astronomy & Observing Nights

Monday, October 19, 2020

We invite you to join us for the University of Iowa Physics & Astronomy Department’s Fall 2020 Virtual Public Astronomy & Observing Nights!

Professor David Miles wins NASA funding to build special apparatus for magnetic field sensors

Thursday, October 15, 2020

https://now.uiowa.edu/2020/10/physicists-win-nasa-funding-build-special-apparatus-magnetic-field-sensors?utm_source=IANowFaculty&utm_medium=mag_field_sensor&utm_campaign=IANowFaculty-10-15-2020

Congratulations to Graduate Student Erik Gustafson on publishing as a single author in Phys. Rev. D.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.071504

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