UAH looks beyond the sky again with central space science role in two NASA missions Feb 14, 2022 Fresh off successful direct involvement in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in roles that included optics, hardware, software, testing analytics, computational modeling and big data processing and disseminatio... UAH scientist lands $750,000 DOE EPSCoR grant for low temperature plasma research Jul 28, 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 Stimul... Plasma Science Decadal Stresses Coordination Gaps and Workforce Instabilities Jun 16, 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 ... Plasma science report co-chaired by Dr. Zank urges better federal agency coordination May 28, 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. leadership ... Unique alumni-crafted model of Parker Solar Probe finds CSPAR home Feb 26, 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 C... CSPAR has central modeling role in IMAP mission to launch in 2024 Feb 10, 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 2024. ... CSPAR's Dr. Gary Zank Featured by Huntsville News Stations Feb 05, 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 articles. WHNT News 19: https://whnt.com/2020/02/04/uah-research-team-prep... UAH and Zank prep for massive data stream following coming launch of ESA Solar Orbiter Feb 04, 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 inve... First Parker Solar Probe scientific papers are published in Nature Dec 04, 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 lead... CPU2AL consortium internship connects top students with Alabama industry Nov 12, 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 Ja... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12