$20 million UAH-led partnership to boost Alabama in plasma science and engineering
May 16, 2022
Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort led by UAH to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering (PSE) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Establishe...
$2.3 million NSF grant boosts UAH effort to predict harmful solar weather events
May 05, 2022
When big blasts of energy from the sun envelop the Earth, they can be so strong that a 2015 event so weakened Earth’s protective magnetic field that it penetrated to the atmosphere, posing a threat to everything from circling space station astron...
23 UAH innovators recognized with patent plaques
Apr 26, 2022
During University Awards for Excellence ceremonies on April 21, plaques commemorating 20 patents were awarded to 23 innovators from two colleges and four research centers at UAH. ...
Could a refined UAH space weather model help scientists find life elsewhere?
Mar 28, 2022
A refinement to a space weather model developed by a center director at UAH could help scientists check out which planets outside our solar system are likely to have someone home. ...
UAH physicist will study super-hot solar processes with $616,000 NSF CAREER grant
Feb 09, 2022
A solar physicist at UAH has been awarded a five-year, $616,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how solar flares explosively release magnetic energy and create energetic particles. ...
Paper by CSPAR's Dr. Lingling Zhao Featured by AAS Nova
Jan 24, 2022
A recent paper by CSPAR's Dr. Lingling Zhao titled "MHD and Ion Kinetic Waves in Field-aligned Flows Observed by Parker Solar Probe" was recently featured by AAS Nova. See the article at AAS Nova here: https://aasnova.org/2022/01/21/sampl...
Two proposals from space science doctoral students achieve NASA FINESST awards
Aug 17, 2021
Two doctoral students’ proposals in The University of Alabama in Huntsville Department of Space Science have been awarded highly competitive, three-year NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grants. ...
Katherine Davidson takes 2nd place in prestigious 2021 CEDAR workshop
Jul 08, 2021
The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Program is a focused Global Change program sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division to enhance the capability of groun...
UAH-led space weather prediction research could be critical to U.S. Space Command
Jun 24, 2021
Research to improve space weather predictions by Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, will boost abilities crucial to the success of the defense mission of the U.S. Spac...
UAH inventors receive award plaques for 21 patents at virtual ceremony
Apr 29, 2021
Thirty-three inventors from two colleges, six departments and three research centers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, received award plaques for 21 patents at a virtual ceremony on Friday...