2020-08-10 14:00:08 NASA awards its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal to Dr. Michael Briggs Details Published: 10 August 2020 NASA has awarded its Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs or initiatives to Dr. Michael S. Briggs, an assistant director of the Center for Space Plasma and … Read more » 2020-07-28 13:55:52 UAH scientist lands $750,000 DOE EPSCoR grant for low temperature plasma research Details Published: 28 July 2020 A principal research scientist in The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Established Program to … Read more » 2020-06-16 01:28:30 Plasma Science Decadal Stresses Coordination Gaps and Workforce Instabilities Details Published: 15 June 2020 The National Academies decadal assessment of plasma science released last month describes funding and workforce instabilities that threaten the status of the U.S. as a world leader in the field. It recommends that federal science agencies … 2020-05-28 18:29:55 Plasma science report co-chaired by Dr. Zank urges better federal agency coordination Details Published: 28 May 2020 Federal agencies should better coordinate their activities in plasma science and engineering (PSE) and jointly support new funding opportunities that take advantage of PSE’s overlaps with different science disciplines to maintain U.S … Read more » 2020-02-26 16:21:10 Unique alumni-crafted model of Parker Solar Probe finds CSPAR home Details Published: 26 February 2020 A unique model of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is now on permanent display at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) in the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in … Read more » 2020-02-10 15:00:00 CSPAR has central modeling role in IMAP mission to launch in 2024 Details Published: 10 February 2020 The Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at UAH will be central to the modeling and data crunching that follow the scheduled launch of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission in … Read more » 2020-02-05 16:49:57 CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank Featured by Huntsville News Stations Details Published: 05 February 2020 Dr. Gary Zank's role in analyzing the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter data was featured by a few Huntsville news stations yesterday. Below are links to the … 2020-02-04 15:00:00 UAH and Zank prep for massive data stream following coming launch of ESA Solar Orbiter Details Published: 04 February 2020 UAH will have a major role in exploring an expected massive data stream that will follow launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter, a mission that will fly over the sun’s poles and on which UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank is a co-primary … Read more » 2019-12-04 18:00:00 First Parker Solar Probe scientific papers are published in Nature Details Published: 04 December 2019 The first published science from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) poses "a major challenge to our understanding of the dynamics of the near-sun solar wind," according to a … Read more » 2019-11-12 15:00:00 CPU2AL consortium internship connects top students with Alabama industry Details Published: 12 November 2019 A Low Temperature Plasma (LTP) internship program led by UAH that connects undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields from nine Alabama partner universities with Alabama-based industries is preparing for its third round of internships in … Read more » 1234...678910