News
Faculty and Staff: Submit grant awards, honors, research publications, accepted talks, and other news items through the faculty and staff news form.
Fall 2020 Virtual Public Astronomy & Observing Nights
Monday, October 19, 2020
We invite you to join us for the University of Iowa Physics & Astronomy Department’s Fall 2020 Virtual Public Astronomy & Observing Nights!
Professor David Miles wins NASA funding to build special apparatus for magnetic field sensors
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Congratulations to Graduate Student Erik Gustafson on publishing as a single author in Phys. Rev. D.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Kristine Sigsbee was awarded $509,549 from the 2019 Heliophysics Guest Investigator (H-GI) “Open” Program for her proposal titled “Ion Properties Associated with Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Waves”
Friday, September 18, 2020
Dr. Kristine Sigsbee, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded a $509,549.
Congratulations to ERD Machinist Christopher Pestalozzi for being one of two recipients for the inaugural Richard E. Gibson Merit Staff Award in Service!
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Award Information
Funded by a generous gift from the estate of Richard E. Gibson, this award is given annually to up to two individuals in the Merit classification.
Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Zach Girazian who was awarded a $200,000 NASA grant to study “Solar Wind Induced Magnetic Fields in the Ionospheres of Venus and Mars”
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Assistant Research Scientist Zach Girazian was awarded $200,000 NASA grant to study “Solar Wind Induced Magnetic Fields in the Ionospheres of Venus and Mars”.
Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. David Hartley who was awarded $625,000 from NASA to study the “Angular Distribution and Propagation Trajectories: Chorus Near Plumes (ADaPT:CNP)”
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Congratulations to Assistant Research Scientist Dr. David Hartley who was awarded $625,000 from NASA to study the “Angular Distribution and Propagation Trajectories: Chorus Near Plumes (ADaPT:...