New summer marketing and administration intern dives into CSPAR and FTPP projects
Jun 09, 2023
She loves her job so far, says the new summer marketing and administration intern for The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and its Future Technologies & enabling Plasma Processes (FT...
How Solar Wind Flows From the Sun
Jun 08, 2023
Scientists using data from NASA's Parker Space Probe have discovered a fascinating connection between the movement of gases within the sun and the high-speed particles of the solar wind. This discovery sheds light on the mystery of why the sun's ou...
Dr. Zank discusses making Alabama into a regional plasma leader on HudsonAlpha podcast
May 24, 2023
UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank was interviewed by Carter Wells, vice president of economic development at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, about the statewide, UAH-led Future Technologies & Enabling Plasma Processes (FTPP) project for episod...
Business people are key to making Huntsville and Alabama a cutting-edge Southeastern hub
May 12, 2023
The business community can help propel to fruition a statewide endeavor backed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make Huntsville the hub of an Alabama plasma physics technology powerhouse that spans the Southeast. ...
UAH research programs achieve record high $169.5M in R&D funding for FY22
Apr 26, 2023
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) notched a record $169.5 million in federal research expenditures for fiscal year (FY) 2022, a 13% increase over FY21. ...
UAH-led statewide effort to apply plasma technologies reaches out to broad coalition
Mar 08, 2023
A statewide UAH led effort to fund, develop and commercialize plasma research and the high-tech workforce it requires is reaching out to a broad coalition of researchers, students, businesspeople and the public with a goal of stimulating thousands ...
Empowering the Next Generation of Physicists – CUWiP: a Conference sponsored by CPU2AL at Auburn University
Feb 06, 2023
The Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) at Auburn University was a resounding success. Thanks in part to the sponsorship of NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL and the participation of both CPU2AL members and CSPAR staff who served on the Local Org...
New plasma stratification computer model has manufacturing, space science uses
Dec 12, 2022
Manufacturers using plasma processes in semiconductor production and materials processing will have a new tool to avoid undesirable plasma stratifications using a computer striations model developed by UAH and CFD Research Corp. ...
UAH has mission and science roles in LEAP project selected by NASA for further study
Sep 19, 2022
A proposed space mission involving The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been selected by NASA for the second time as part of a group of four for a possible future deployment. ...
ESA Solar Orbiter confirms solar switchback origin theory by UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank
Sep 12, 2022
For the first time a solar switchback has been directly observed that confirms 2020 models by astrophysicist Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that theorized how these surprising structures in the solar wind originate.h...