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Allison Jaynes (University of Iowa), the American Physical Societys Katherine E. Weimer Award 2023 winner, talks about the plasma ocean of our solar system, from "killer electrons" to the furthest reaches of space exploration.

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At an APS meeting in Denver, Allison Jaynes discussed her work on auroras and the strange plasma physics behind them.

The soaring price-tag of a plan to fly rock samples back to Earth is jeopardising other space projects, say critics

Ames IA (SPX) Oct 23, 2023 - David Miles, a University of Iowa associate professor of physics and astronomy, recently took over as the principal investigator on a satellite mission that will study the near-Earth orbit. Miles is

Ames IA (SPX) Oct 23, 2023 - David Miles, a University of Iowa associate professor of physics and astronomy, recently took over as the principal investigator on a satellite mission that will study the near-Earth orbit. Miles is

Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.

Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble professor who for nearly three decades at Iowa combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics, has died. He was 65.

Four University of Iowa faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Awards for 2023.

Jeff Leiberton, a junior from West Des Moines, Iowa, was named a recipient of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.