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Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), holding a model of the Parker Solar Probe and SWEAP instrument suite created by Blake Parker

UAH development of SWEAP instruments helps Parker Solar Probe win 2024 Collier Trophy

Apr 01, 2025

The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite developed by researchers at The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA’s Parker...


Conceptual rendering shows NASA's Parker Solar Probe about to enter the solar corona, the outermost layer of plasma, or ionized gas

UAH researcher says interaction of kinetic waves and suprathermal particles could be key to unlocking biggest mystery in heliophysics

Feb 04, 2025

Speakers at the inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Breakfast, presented by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), offered messages of economic innovation, growth and cooperation to the capacity audience. ...


Alfvén waves

UAH plasma researcher follows up first-of-its-kind study of Alfvén waves with groundbreaking new findings, possibly key to mystery of solar corona heating

Nov 13, 2024

Syed Ayaz, a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has published a paper in Scientific Reports that builds on an earlier first-of-its-kind study that examined kinetic Alfvén waves. ...


Dr. Gary Zank, director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR).

National Space Club taps UAH Eminent Scholar Dr. Gary Zank to receive 2024 Distinguished Science Award

Nov 05, 2024

The National Space Club (NSC), Huntsville Chapter, has selected Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to receive the 2024 Distinguished Science Award. ...


AIAPC

New Huntsville conference will explore opportunities in plasma science and engineering

Oct 25, 2024

The first Annual International Alabama Plasma Physics Conference (AIAPC), which is directly connected to statewide efforts to establish plasma science and engineering (PSE) as a major Alabama industry, is coming to Huntsville Oct. 28-30. ...


Dr. Gary Zank, FTPP principal investigator and director of the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research

FTPP program led by UAH receives Innovator Award for Program of the Year from 256Today

Oct 18, 2024

Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant program led by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been awarded Program of the Year as ...


Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim, a research scientist 1 in the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR).

UAH researcher wins $608k SHINE grant to study Joule heating in the sun’s atmosphere for clues to the biggest mystery in heliophysics

Sep 18, 2024

Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim, a research scientist in the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has won a $608,000 National Science Foundation (...


Former UAH student and model maker (right) Blake Parker presents models of the Voyager and Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft to (left) Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research

CSPAR gains two scale models of spacecraft crucial to its work, courtesy of UAH alumnus

Sep 12, 2024

Two scale models of spacecraft that provide research data to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have joined a Parker Solar Probe model on prominent display at CSPAR offices in Cramer...


EXCLUSIVE: Former UAH student returns for inspirational donation

EXCLUSIVE: Former UAH student returns for inspirational donation

Sep 12, 2024

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Blake Parker, a NASA engineer returned Wednesday to the campus where his space exploration dreams began to provide a special gift for UAH’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR). The 2013 UAH graduate...


NASA’s Parker Solar Probe entered the solar atmosphere.

UAH researcher wins NASA FINESST scholarship to study connection between solar wind turbulence and energetic particles

Aug 30, 2024

Ashok Silwal, a doctoral candidate and graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been chosen to receive a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Scie...


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