Articles from 2020

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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

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

https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm

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

https://space.physics.uiowa.edu/rbsp/audio/mag/

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.

Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Zach Girazian who was awarded a $200,000 NASA grant to study “Solar Wind Induced Magnetic Fields in the Ionospheres of Venus and Mars”

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Assistant Research Scientist Zach Girazian was awarded $200,000 NASA grant to study “Solar Wind Induced Magnetic Fields in the Ionospheres of Venus and Mars”.

Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. David Hartley who was awarded $625,000 from NASA to study the “Angular Distribution and Propagation Trajectories: Chorus Near Plumes (ADaPT:CNP)”

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. David Hartley who was awarded $625,000 from NASA to study the “Angular Distribution and Propagation Trajectories: Chorus Near Plumes (ADaPT:...

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Rachael Filwett who was a awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

The information on the award can also be found here https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028492&HistoricalAwards=false /sites/physics.uiowa.