The Fermi Research Alliance has awarded Prof. Yasar Onel a $91,257 grant to design a helium gas closed-loop regulation system for the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam monitors at Fermilab in Illinois. The NuMI project creates an intense beam of neutrinos aimed toward the NOvA Far Detector facility near Ash River, Minn.

David Miles, a University of Iowa associate professor of physics and astronomy, recently took over as the principal investigator on a satellite mission that will study the near-Earth orbit. Miles is leading the project after the death of UI professor Craig Kletzing in August.

Dale Stille, an Instructional Resource Specialist. in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

Graduate Student Dylan Blend has been awarded $16,400 from the Universities Research Association's (URA) Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) to work on the CMS Outer Tracker Phase II Upgrade at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

In this article in Salon about astronomical sonification, Bill Kurth says its origins can be traced back to at least the 1970s when the Voyager-1 spacecraft recorded electromagnetic wave signals in space that were sent back down to his team on Earth, where they were processed as audio recordings.

In a male-dominated field, University of Iowa space and plasma physics associate professor Allison Jaynes faces inequity without hesitation. Jaynes recently won the Katherine E. Weimer Award for women working in the plasma physics field as well as the 2023 American Geophysical Union James B. Macelwane Medal, which recognizes early career scientists for their contributions to earth and space science.

A team that included two Physics and Astronomy students won the "Best use of Auth0" award for their YouNeighbor web application at the HackUIowa event Sept. 23-24 at the Iowa Memorial Union.

Congratulations to Sarah Henderson who successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Characterizing Global Behaviors of Precipitating Solar Wind Hydrogen at Mars" on Sept. 26!