The Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted the second annual Acevedo Poster Contest March 4, giving participating students a chance to show how they used computing resources, tools, or techniques in their research.

The infrared cryo-microscope, designed by a team led by Thomas Folland, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, uses off-the shelf components to make precise measurements of different materials’ properties.

Three graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have been awarded scholarships from the University of Iowa Graduate College. Michael Hite and Sarah Choate were awarded the Ballard and Seashore Fellowship, while Dylan Blend was awarded the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship.

An AIP journal recently published a paper written by Graduate Research Assistant Cecilia Fasano, who studies microfabrication and its applications in astronomy.

Jodie McLennan, a graduate student studying pulsating aurora, was awarded a NASA FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) Fellowship covering her graduate work for the next three years.