Graduate student Vinicius Ferreira Rodrigues, a member of Professor Denis Candido's Condensed Matter Group, earned a Gold ...

Condensed matter physics is concerned with the synthesis, manipulation, and properties (electronic, magnetic, and optical) of liquid, soft, and solid materials. The sub-field is highly ...

Nuclear physics is the study of atomic nuclei, their constituents, and the interactions that hold them together. Nuclei are the massive cores at the center of atoms and are made up of protons and ...

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa–sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in ...

Today, Brian Metzger, who earned BS degrees from Iowa in physics, astronomy, and math in 2003, and is now on the faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York received the Blavatnik Award for ...

University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy Professor Kenneth G. Gayley helped debunk moon landing conspiracy theories on LiveNOW. Kim Kardashian says she doesn't believe that America made it to the moon ...

Associate Professor David Miles has been named Principal Investigator of the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Mission following the passing of Prof.

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 ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

University of Iowa alumnus Jacob Isbell, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy, has been awarded nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to lead ...

The cover story and feature article in the September 2025 issue of Physics Today is by John Sunderland, Director of the University of Iowa PET Imaging Center, who has a secondary appointment in the ...

In an effort to retain engineering staff from a $170 million project for NASA, the University of Iowa is renovating the seventh floor of Van Allen Hall to house the Iowa Spaceflight Laboratory, a ...