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Ames, Iowa – The work of Suraj Kothari, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Iowa State University,...

Last April, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, engineers bombarded a mercury target with protons, directing powerful neutron beams toward instruments capable of revealing the tiniest details of...

LeRoy Cain’s 15-year-old daughter, Rachel, calls her dad the “If” man. It seems a bit understated for the guy who gives the command, “Go for launch,” that starts the final nine-minute countdown to a space shuttle blast off. But...

When NASA launches the space shuttle Atlantis in June 2007, its crew will include the first Iowa State University alum to become an astronaut. Clayton C. Anderson, who earned his master’s degree in aerospace engineering at Iowa...

Maria Torres, a doctoral student in chemical engineering at Iowa State University, has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship for minority students by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The fellowship, which...

While vetting inorganic compounds for thermoelectric applications in the early 1990s, Ames Lab associate scientist Bruce Cook (PhDMSE’99) happened upon AlMgB14, a ternary aluminum-magnesium-boride that showed promise. But he soon...