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
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...
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...
First-time UAH study sheds new light on mystery of why solar corona is so much hotter than Sun’s surface
Jul 26, 2024
In a new study published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a researcher from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, explores critical aspects of a phenomenon called kinetic Alfvén waves (KAW) to ...
UAH-led coalition building new statewide plasma industry in Alabama, backed by National Science Foundation
Jul 24, 2024
A 10-year, $40 million federal investment in plasma science and engineering (PSE) efforts in Alabama managed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has produced tangible results that are very encouraging, according to Dr. Sandra Richardso...
New Summer Marketing Intern Working on CSPAR, FTPP Projects
Jun 26, 2024
The new summer marketing and coordination intern for The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and its Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP) grant offic...
Research scientist’s “one-of-a-kind” model of the heliosphere wins $824k NASA heliophysics grant
Jun 18, 2024
Dr. Federico Fraternale at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been awarded a $824,132 NASA heliophysics grant to develop new global models of the heliosphere that incorporate interstellar ...
UAH-led FTPP recognized nationally as National Science Foundation ranks in top 10 best places to work
May 22, 2024
The $20 million, five-year Future Technologies and Enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP) initiative led by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is cited in The Washington Post. ...
Nurturing emerging leaders key to making Alabama a plasma force, says Dr. Kolobov
Jan 11, 2024
Dr. Vladimir Kolobov says that new ideas and newly funded projects in plasma science and engineering will make Alabama an attractive place for younger scientists and engineers. Michael Mercier | UAH As a lead researcher and codirect...
UAH researchers closing in on helping to solve 60-year-old solar mystery
Oct 17, 2023
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have supported a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve a 60-year-old cosmic mystery that involves the question of why the Sun’s corona, the outermost part of the Sun’s atmospher...