What’s the science that makes a slider slide and a curveball curve? Ken Gayley, associate professor of physics and ardent Dodgers fan, says it’s a basic fluid dynamics question, just like what makes a plane fly or a sailboat slip through the waves or an empty plastic bag on the side of the road fly up in the air when a car drives by.

Dr. Kai Yi, an assistant research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a Large Hadron Collider Physics Center Fellow. One of 22 Fellows, Dr.

Thousands of amateur (ham) radio operators around the world were able to say “Hi” to NASA’s Juno spacecraft Oct. 9 as it swung past Earth on its way to Jupiter. According to Donald Kirchner, University of Iowa research engineer on Juno and one of the coordinators of the all-volunteer “Say Hi to Juno” project, all licensed amateur radio operators were invited to participate by visiting a website and following posted instructions.

Congratulations to Alan denBleyker for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Study of Phase Transitions in Spin and Gauge Models Using Fisher’s Zeros." "...

Congratulations to Ran Lin for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Organic Spintronic Devices Utilizing Spin-Injection, Spin-Tunneling and Spin-Dependent Transport." "Dr.