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Congratulations to Adam Kaminski who has been named the Harmon-Ye Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Named faculty positions are among the highest recognitions for scholarly excellence at U.S.

Congratulations to Prof. Jake Simon, who has been selected for an ISU Award for Early Achievement in Research.

Jake Simon has won a NASA Emerging Worlds grant (~$563,000 over 3 years) to study the formation of the distant, icy bodies beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Kuiper Belt).

Congratulations to LAS alum, John H. Weaver (physics), for being the recipient of the Department of Physics and Astronomy Outstanding Alumni Award. 

On Monday, the Belle II collaboration elected Soeren Prell to a 2-year term as Physics Coordinator for the experiment.

Graduate student David Rea working with Prof. Jake Simon has just won a prestigious NASA FINESST award to study how the moons of Jupiter formed.

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Srimoyee Sen, who has been selected for the 2023-24 LAS Award for Early Achievement in Research. Dr.

Paul Canfield, a Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Robert Allen Wright Endowed Professor in Physics and Astronomy, a senior scientist at the Ames National Laboratory and a Member of the American Academy of

Congratulations to James Vary on being named Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University.  Few colleagues achieve this distinction.

Read what Professor Steve Kawaler has to say about the total solar eclipse happening on Monday.

Costas M. Soukoulis, the Iowa State University Frances M. Craig Endowed Chair and a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, died March 14 at the age of 73.

Kira Richards (undergrad) shares her love of physics — and what she learned while helping commission a two-story, 1,000-ton particle detector.

Congratulations to Adam Kaminski who has been named the Harmon-Ye Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Named faculty positions are among the highest recognitions for scholarly excellence at U.S.

Samuel Hauser was honored with the Best Poster Award during the annual meeting of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center. Sam is presently a graduate student with Professor Jigang Wang.

Scientists from the Department of Physics and Astronomy discovered surprising role of magnetic defects in topological insulators.

Postdoc Daniel Carrera has won a NASA grant with Professor Jake Simon to study physical processes at work in the early Solar System.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to offer two online astronomy courses during the summer of 2023.  ASTRO 102: North Star Astronomy is a one-credit hour course that covers a diverse set of subjects, such as how astronome

Congratulations to Tom Iadecola for winning the University Award for Early Achievement in Research.