Magnetism, Electricity, and Spectroscopy -- Oh My!
Jul 23, 2014
Eight REU students currently working at CSPAR summer of 2014, volunteered with Ms. Samaiyah Farid, Research Scientist, this weekend at the Fayetteville Library Science Week. There were participants with ages ranging from 2 to 12. They discussed mag...
Featured Article on Physics of Plasmas Website
Jul 22, 2014
Physics of Plasmas published Anomalous diffusion of field lines and charged particles in Arnold-Beltrami-Childress force-free magnetic fields in their July 2014 issue. Dr. Brahmananda Dasgupta, a Principal Research Scientist at CSPAR, ...
CSPAR Graduate Research Assistant Accepted to Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program
Jun 20, 2014
Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov of Space Science and Faculty Advisor of CSPAR’s Graduate Research Assistant III, Matthew Bedford, has been selected as one of the seven recipients of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign’s...
College of Science Distinguished Professor's Journal Selected by the Journal of Plasma Physics
Jun 06, 2014
Distinguished Professor Dr. Gary Zank's article "The equations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics JPP 48, 85 (1992)" has been selected by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Plasma Physics as one of the 12 "Classic JPP Papers". The list wa...
UAH Solar Scientists Get Help from Zippy Supercomputer
Jun 03, 2014
Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov, along with co-principal investigators, Dr. Jacob Heerikhuisen and Dr. Sergey Borivikov had the chance to use the Cray Blue Waters supercomputer, one of the world's fastest to conduct solar research. Complex equations are used...
Space Science: New Distinguished Professor
Apr 14, 2014
The College of Science has a new distinguished professor. As of April 4, 2014, The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama appointed Dr. Gary P. Zank as Distinguished Professor of Space Science in the College of Science. We a...
Grad Student Admitted to Prestigious Summer School
Apr 03, 2014
Mr. Fei Xu, a visiting graduate student of UAH from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China, who worked with Dr. Gang Li at CSPAR, has been admitted to the prestigious Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Space Weather Su...
CSPAR Researcher Rob Preece Featured in Media Discussing Massive Gamma Ray Burst
Nov 22, 2013
Dr. Rob Preece, CSPAR researcher and faculty member of the UAH Department of Space Science, has been featured in numerous media accounts of a powerful recent gamma ray burst. More about the burst and Dr. Preece's comments can be found in this article...
New UAH Department of Space Science
Oct 18, 2013
The creation of the new Department of Space Science at UAH, headed by CSPAR Director Dr. Gary Zank, is featured in an article on the campus news page. Dr. Zank talks about the new department and the vision for its future. New UAH Dept. of Space Sc...
CSPAR Director Interviewed About Voyager
Oct 18, 2013
CSPAR Director and Chair of the Department of Space Science, Dr. Gary Zank, sat down for an interview with an AL.com reporter, resulting in two articles discussing the recent progress of the Voyager I spacecraft into the Interstellar Medium. The inte...