Physics grad student publishes class project in top journal

Dany Yaacoub stands next to Reggie statue

Using ISU’s new supercomputer, Dany Yaacoub (MS 2025) solved a 50-year-old plasma physics problem in his spring astrophysics course – that work has just been published in Physical Review Letters, the premier physics journal in the U.S.

Twelve Thousand Bombs seminar series continues in fall 2024

A sketch of the Twelve Thousand Bombs Speaker Series speakers with a watermark of a nuclear weapon in the background

The Twelve Thousand Bombs seminar series on nuclear weapons will continue this fall with four eminent scholars and public figures speaking at ISU. The series, sponsored by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, was inaugurated in 2023 and aims to raise awareness of nuclear weapons issues in the Bloomington-Normal community.