Graduate research assistant Jacob Payne — with guidance from Associate Professor Casey DeRoo — applied for and landed a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award to develop a new X-ray telescope.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has awarded Associate Professor Casey DeRoo a $24,225 grant to evaluate the suitability of commercially available CMOS sensors for small satellite missions. These missions will conduct observations in the X-ray bandwidth to achieve scientific objectives relevant to NASA Astrophysics.

The University of Iowa, a long-standing leader in the design and building of instruments for space-based missions, has been awarded nearly $1.5 million from NASA to purchase state-of-the-art equipment needed to build instruments for future missions. The funds will also provide students more opportunities to obtain the instrument-building knowledge and training for careers in space exploration.

The $45,000 fellowship supports the continued examination of AG Draconis, a complex spectroscopic puzzle with a lot to say about a common endpoint of stellar evolution.

A new partnership between Washington University in St. Louis and University of Iowa will further the development of thin X-ray optics capable of adjusting their shape following launch.

Jeff Leiberton has won $5,000 in support of his multifaceted research with Prof. Casey DeRoo.

Fasano wins NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship to study UV gratings. Details included in the article.

Prof. DeRoo awarded a NASA APRA grant for the study of curved X-ray gratings.

Cecilia Fasano receives a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award funding her research in the fabrication and testing of astronomical gratings.

Jeff Leiberton wins a Van Allen Research Grant to study supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud.