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Baalrud earns prestigious NSF CAREER Award for research and museum project
Friday, February 20, 2015
Another Earth in the Cosmos?
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
What happened to the water on Mars?
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
UI instrument sees comet-created atmosphere on Mars
Monday, November 10, 2014
Classroom Pass gets fired up in astronomy class
Monday, November 3, 2014
When Tyler Stercula walks into class, he's not expecting to hold a candle to a hydrogen-filled balloon and ignite a giant fireball in front of his startled classmates—but that's what he does, with four different gases. This is how Professor Robert Mutel likes to teach General Astronomy (following safety protocols, of course).
UI student texts with space station with rooftop antennae
Monday, November 3, 2014
UI faculty and staff honored at annual celebration
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Asli Yildirim!
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Congratulations to Asli Yildirim for successfully defending her PhD dissertation on "...
Congratulations to Dr. Tuna Yildirim!
Friday, September 26, 2014
Congratulations to Tuna Yildirim for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Topologically Massive Yang-Mills Theory and Link Invariants."
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MAVEN Arrives at Mars
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission arrived and successfully achieved orbit around Mars on September 21st, after a ten-month cruise from Earth.