Articles from 2022
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Research Team Finds Potential New Method to Control Light
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Assistant Professor Tom Folland is part of an international research team that has discovered a potential new method for controlling light.
Halekas Awarded Grant to Investigate Lunar Magnetic Anomaly
Friday, March 18, 2022
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.
Successful NASA Confirmation Review for MAGIC
Friday, March 11, 2022
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.
Pres. Wilson Visits Van Allen Hall
Friday, March 11, 2022
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.
University of Iowa, NASA, successfully launch rocket to study aurora
Thursday, March 10, 2022
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.
NASA Sounding Rocket Launches into Aurora
Monday, March 7, 2022
The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, launched on Saturday, Mar. 5, 2022, on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket.
Piker to Receive CLAS Mary Louise Kelley Staff Excellence Award
Friday, March 4, 2022
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.
Kletzing Speaks at 39th Annual Presidential Lecture
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Professor Craig Kletzing was one of three distinguished University of Iowa faculty members who gave presentations at the 39th Presidential Lecture on Feb. 27.
Onel and Nachtman earn award for DUNE project
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Professor Yasar Onel and Professor Jane Nachtman have been awarded $14,553 from Fermi Research Alliance for a project entitled “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE FD-2) CRP engineering support at FNAL and BNL Sites.”
UI scientists hope NASA rocket will answer aurora questions in Alaska
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Holed up in a cabin in the small northern Alaskan village of Venetie — which, according to the 2020 census, had a population of just 125 — University of Iowa doctoral candidate Riley Troyer is on a NASA-funded mission to sky gaze.
His duties, actually, are much more specific and scientific, as he’s among a trio of University of Iowa investigators who over the weekend flew to Alaska on a three-week mission to better understand a rarely viewed type of aurora — also known as Northern Lights — that flashes or “pulsates.”
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