Continuing an upward trend of University of Iowa faculty securing prestigious early-career grants, four investigators from the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science have been awarded notable grant awards to advance their careers.

Kenneth Tse, professor of saxophone in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ School of Music, has been named a 2024 University of Iowa Distinguished Chair.

NASA awarded Assistant Professor Casey DeRoo a grant for research related to Rapid Electron Beam Lithography Patterning for Customized Reflection Gratings.

CLAS researchers provided a progress report on instruments slated for $115 million TRACERS mission.

Julianna Pacheco, a professor in the Department of Political Science, received funding from County Health Rankings and Roadmaps for her research on political and community power in Latino communities.

NASA has awarded Professor Greg Howes a $525,311 grant to study the plasma physics of magnetic reconnection in turbulent solar wind.

Grazyna Kochanska, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further her research on early parent-child relationships.

Professor Carrie Figdor’s lecture is one of six in series, which is free to watch online. Figdor discusses the different ways humanity thinks about the mind and its relation to the brain.

International Programs at the University of Iowa has awarded a travel grant to Assistant Research Scientist/Engineer David Hartley to give two presentations on his research at the 4th International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Atlantic Radio Science Meeting (AT-RASC) May 19-14, 2024 in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Jess Gorzelitz, assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology, has shared her research with mass media in hope that sharing her findings will inspire more people to join the UI’s cancer research.