Outreach and public engagement are essential to sharing our research with the general public, by interacting and listening in order to generate mutual benefit.
For more than 15 years, Hawk-Eyes on Science and Hawk-Eyes in Space have brought the excitement of science demonstrations to Iowans of all ages.
These successful and well-received outreach programs are led by dozens of department faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate students, who give 40-60 demonstrations each year both on and off-campus. Their combined efforts have made Hawk-Eyes on Science one of the nation’s premier university-based science outreach programs, one of a small handful of programs to receive both the World Year of Physics and LaserFest grants from the American Physical Society. The programs are supported in part by grants from the General Electric Corporation and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Bauder fund.
Resources
- Check out the Instructional Resources and Lecture Demonstrations page to see hundreds of physics and astronomy demos, lessons, and resources for teachers.
- See public observing events on the Van Allen Observatories' Facebook page.
Outreach News
Demos Unleashed! Held March 14
Hospodarsky Gives Presentations at STEAM Institute
Outreach Team Participates in Family Weekend Science Expo
DeRoo Presents at Willowwind School
Outreach Team Presents Soldering Project for Project HOPE
Outreach coordinators
Gregory G. Howes, PhD
Cyerra Hutchins
Vincent G.J. Rodgers, PhD
Dale Stille
Andi Swirbul
Public engagement in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The University of Iowa’s core mission extends beyond the classrooms, laboratories, studios, and libraries where we educate students, conduct our research, and create new artistic work. Equally important is our engagement with communities throughout Iowa, across the nation, and around the world.
Our faculty, students, and staff work to solve problems, imagine new approaches to challenges, and improve quality of life, often through service-learning courses in which students earn academic credit.
It’s a virtuous circle: When UI expertise is harnessed to help a community or region improve the lives of its residents, the experience adds unique educational value to students’ academic journeys, and advances the research and creative production of our faculty. In turn, that new knowledge empowers us to help more communities, solve more problems, and improve more lives.
The UI is not just the University of Iowa, we're the University for Iowa—and throughout the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we are proud to serve.