NASA has awarded two grants to Assistant Professor Casey DeRoo for his work developing technologies for X-ray astronomy. He received the awards through NASA’s Astrophysics Research and Analysis program.

Jeff Leiberton was named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar, the premier undergraduate scholarship for students pursuing careers in mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering. H is the 15th Goldwater Scholar from Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy,

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.

In an article published in the March 2021 Iowa Magazine, the DeRoo Group was noted as one of several researchers using artificial intelligence to drive discovery. The University of Iowa team is teaching computers to categorize celestial objects on their own, then flag for further examination the phenomena that don't fit into neat categories.