Ohannes Kamer Koseyan, a Ph.D student in Professor Yasar Onel's lab, has won an award from Universities Research Association in the amount of $10,000. 

Congratulations to Physics & Astronomy PhD student, Cecilia Fasano, for winning a competitively-awarded fellowship from the Iowa Space Grant Consortium in the amount of $4000. The fellowship supports Fasano's work in making high performance echelle gratings for UV astronomy.

Congratulations to graduate student, Dustin Swarm for being selected as a NASA fellowship awardee from the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC). This is a $2,500 award.