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Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Steve Kawaler, who has been awarded a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grant for his group's project, "Convection, Oscillations, Outbursts, and Limit Cycle Behavior of t

Alex Travesset, Professor specializing in soft condensed matter, nanoscience, and all things nanoparticles had the honor of being selected to give the 2025 Rosemary Schnell Distinguished Lecture in Nanotechnology on May 21 at Northwestern Internat

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Emeritus David Johnston has successfully authored a new textbook titled Introductory Solid State Physics: An Emphasis on Magnetism.

A committee of colleagues selected Lekha Adhikari as recipient of the 2024-25 LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Prof. Charles Kerton, Associate Professor of Astronomy, for receiving the Cassling Family Faculty Award for the 2024-25 academic year.

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.