Articles from August 2023

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Casey DeRoo explains blue supermoon

DeRoo Explains the Blue Supermoon

In these interviews with local TV stations, Casey DeRoo explained the rare phenomenon of the blue supermoon.
Craig Kletzing with a student

Gazette: Esteemed Iowa, NASA physicist Craig Kletzing dies

Longtime University of Iowa physics and astronomy professor Craig Kletzing made big news in 2019 when he won the single largest research grant in UI history — a $115 million award from NASA to study how the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields interact. But the space plasma physicist over several decades before that had established himself not only as an expert in the field of space physics — researching, among many things, the Northern Lights and Van Allen radiation belts — but as a passionate educator, eager to inspire in his students the “a ha” moments that drove investigations and discoveries.
Craig Kletzing in front of a blackboard

Renowned Iowa physics professor, researcher Craig Kletzing dies

Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble University of Iowa professor who combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics, has died. He was 65.

Prineas Awarded Grant to Improve LWIR Thermal Camera Detectors

Friday, August 11, 2023
Professor John Prineas and the University of Iowa have been given a subaward as part of a contract entitled “Metasurface-Coupled Superlattices for LWIR Imaging” from the US Missile Defense Agency and led by Sivananthan Labs in Bolingbrook, Ill. The subaward is for $419,958 over two years.
Thomas Folland lab

Folland Receives Grant to Characterize Semiconductor Materials

Thursday, August 3, 2023
Assistant Professor Thomas Folland has received a $434,814 grant from the Office of Naval Research to develop nano-optic infrared probes to characterize new semiconductor materials through award number N00014-23-1-2616.