UAH to host public discussion about multi-messenger astronomy on Nov. 20
Nov 16, 2017
UAH will host a free science discussion, "Multi-messenger Astronomy: A New Era in Space Science," at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, in the Student Services Building, room 112. ...
UAH team part of co-detection that confirms the origin of short gamma-ray bursts
Oct 16, 2017
A gravitational-wave discovery on Aug. 17 is the first to produce light detected by observatories in space and on the ground. Just 1.7 seconds after the gravitational waves rushed past Earth, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught high-ene...
UAH space science professor elected fellow of the American Physical Society
Oct 16, 2017
Dr. Nikolai Pogorelov, a professor in the Department of CSPAR at UAH, has been elected a 2017 fellow of the APS by the APS Council of Representatives upon the recommendation of the Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics. ...
UAH leading effort that secures $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation
Sep 19, 2017
A partnership comprising nine universities in Alabama, including UAH as the lead institution, has been awarded a $20 million, five-year grant by the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). ...
Zank awarded the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Geiss Fellowship
Jun 27, 2017
Dr. Gary Zank, who serves as both chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at UAH, has been named the 2017 recipient of the International Space Science Institute’s Johannes Ge...
NASA fellowship will fund UAH space science student’s research on solar wind
Jun 20, 2017
Bofeng Tang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has received a 2017/2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) to fund his research into the transport of electrons and electron heat flux in the solar wind. The pr...
UAH supplies critical systems for NASA super pressure balloon
Apr 10, 2017
Critical systems for NASA’s Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) Super Pressure Balloon have been supplied and calibrated by UAH. ...
UAH has role in neutron spectrometer being tested for manned spaceflight
Nov 29, 2016
The detector and electronics in a new neutron spectrometer that’s being tested in space to monitor radiation for future manned NASA space missions were built and tested at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) at UAH. ...
UAH collaboration with NASA has ‘changed the textbooks’
Oct 20, 2016
If it weren’t for the unique and decades-long collaboration between NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and UAH, Dr. Michael Brigg’s research might not ever have gotten off the ground. ...
Dr. Gary Zank interviewed by Huntsville news station WHNT
Jun 16, 2016
Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson for an interview on how far we've come in the space age, as well as various other topics. &...