The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) at the University of Iowa has selected associate professor Gregory Howes as a Scholar of the Year as part of its annual Discovery and Innovation awards program. 

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has selected Arran Gross to receive the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Assistant Professor Tom Folland is part of an international research team that has discovered a potential new method for controlling light.

Associate Professor Jasper Halekas recently received a grant award to investigate the environment in Reiner Gamma, a strongly magnetized region of the surface of the Moon.   NASA, via the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), awarded Halekas $160,433 for the investigation, “Lunar Vertex: Exploring the Intersection of Geoscience and Space Plasma Physics.”  Halekas is the deputy principal investigator for the investigation.  

The MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC) Technology Demonstration on the TRACERS SMEX satellite mission passed its confirmation review at NASA on March 8.  Dr. Nicola Fox, Heliophysics Division Director, approved MAGIC to formally proceed into the implementation phase, which means the MAGIC team can start flight build.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted President Barbara Wilson on March 9 with a tour of Van Allen Hall to highlight all the fantastic work being done by faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students.

CBS 2/Iowa's News Now: University of Iowa scientists are back home after a weeks-long trip to Alaska to study the aurora borealis.

The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, launched on Saturday, Mar. 5, 2022, on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket. 

Chris Piker, senior database administrator, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 College of LIberal Arts and Sciences  Mary Louise Kelley Staff Excellence Award. This award recognizes staff members in CLAS who have performed exceptional service to their department or the College.

Professor Craig Kletzing was one of three distinguished University of Iowa faculty members who gave presentations at the 39th Presidential Lecture on Feb. 27.