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.

Applications for the Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) Graduate Fellowship Program are now open. The program is designed to support outstanding graduate students pursuing NASA-aligned research opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.

Graduate Student Sarah Choate has been awarded $12,000 from the Universities Research Association's (URA) Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) to support work on “Study of the Neutrino Magnetic Moment with the NOvA Near Detector.”