Amanda Acevedo (BA ’96), founder and president of Vedo Systems, credits her physics education and early research opportunities with preparing her for a career developing software for human spaceflight.

Graduate student Vinicius Ferreira Rodrigues, a member of Professor Denis Candido's Condensed Matter Group, earned a Gold Medal in the Physics Cup, placing third overall among more than 2,000 participants worldwide. His result is the highest placement ever achieved by a Brazilian competitor in the competition's history.

Graduate researcher Ramachandra Bangari and associate professor Thomas Folland collaborated with researchers from McMaster University and Vanderbilt University on a new method for determining how ultrathin crystals are oriented, an important step toward understanding materials that could be used in future technologies.

The University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Department hosts Public Observing Nights in the Van Allen Observatory to spark students’ and community members’ interest in astronomy.

Called the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), physicists from Iowa and around the world have teamed up to detect neutrinos, elusive particles that may explain what makes up the universe and all that’s in it, including us.