This story from the University of Iowa Graduate College tells how graduate students Connor Feltman (now a postdoctoral research fellow/scholar) and Allison Flores contribute to the TRACERS mission, which seeks to answer long-standing questions about space weather.

Professors Allison Jaynes and David Miles from the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will provide instrumentation for the LabOratory for the Behavior of the SloT Region (LOBSTR) mission.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has awarded Associate Professor Casey DeRoo a $24,225 grant to evaluate the suitability of commercially available CMOS sensors for small satellite missions. These missions will conduct observations in the X-ray bandwidth to achieve scientific objectives relevant to NASA Astrophysics.

The 2024 TIME 100 Next List includes Maria Drout, a 2010 graduate of the University of Iowa who earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Astronomy.

Three graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have been awarded scholarships from the University of Iowa Graduate College. Michael Hite and Sarah Choate were awarded the Ballard and Seashore Fellowship, while Dylan Blend was awarded the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship.

In this Radio Iowa interview, Prof. Allison Jaynes commented on viewing the aurora borealis in Iowa on Oct. 10 and the prospects for seeing it again the next evening.

Using spacecraft measurements of protons and electric fields, a team of scientists led by University of Iowa researchers Arya Afshari and Greg Howes discovered that the cyclotron acceleration of protons can dissipate turbulence in space.

Students from across the country traveled to Iowa City for two weeks this past summer to participate in the third year of the Edge of Space Academy, an immersive summer research experience focused on space-based instrumentation for observing Earth and space.

An AIP journal recently published a paper written by Graduate Research Assistant Cecilia Fasano, who studies microfabrication and its applications in astronomy.

To solve one of space science’s most enduring puzzles, University of Iowa researchers have been awarded a $733,873 NASA grant to investigate how turbulence in the solar wind heats plasma. Led by University of Iowa Professor Gregory Howes and Dr. Daniel McGinnis, the team will utilize data from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft to uncover the mechanisms behind this turbulent dissipation, aiming to protect Earth from the impacts of extreme space weather.