UI Physics & Astronomy
2003 Newsletter

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

• Faculty Highlights/Research
• Outreach Activities/
  Highlights
• Alumni News
• Graduate/Undergraduate News
• Staff News
• What's New

Special Points of Interest:

• Space Odyssey
• Faculty Directory
• Faculty Searches
• Pioneer 10 Says "Goodbye"
• Undergraduates/Graduates Receiving Degrees
• Fall Enrollment Numbers
• Alumni Update Form

Graduate/Undergraduate News

Student Awards

This past year, the following students were recognized for their outstanding work:
John Goodricke Award--Thomas Cremieux, Christopher Richey
Myrtle K. Maier Scholarship--Anne Cherry, Jennifer Kaley
William R. Savage Memorial Award--Andrew Helton
James A. Van Allen Award--Christopher Jones, Brian Metzger, Joshua Sayre
Goertz/Nicholson Memorial Scholarship--Peter Kortenkamp
John & Stacey Wahl Scholarship--Ahmed Diallo, Eric Loren
Nicholson Fellowship--Sarah Iverson
Swift Scholarship--Paul Good, Joseph Pingenot
University of Iowa Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award--Takeshi Yasuda

The Department's Society of Physics Students (SPS) was selected as a 2003 Marsh W. White Award winner. The award supports projects designed to promote interest in physics among students and the general public.

Undergraduate students Anne Cherry, Christopher Jones, and Brian Metzger received awards from the University of Iowa Honors Program. Anne Cherry won the $3,000 Rhodes-Dunlap Honors Program Scholarship. This summer Anne went to Fairbanks, Alaska to conduct atmospheric physics research at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Christopher Jones and Brian Metzger each won the $100 Collegiate Scholar Award in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the $2,500 Callen Prize. This fall Christopher is pursuing graduate studies in physics at Cornell University, and Brian will enter the Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Students Participate in NRAO Summer Program

This past summer, four astronomy students participated in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) summer program at sites in Socorro, NM, Green Bank, WV, and Charlottesville, VA. The students, Andy Cowan, Aaron Geller, Christine Roark, and Laura Spitler were chosen by staff members of the NRAO to participate in their research programs, work on radio telescope hardware and software systems, and attend radio astronomy science and engineering lectures.