UAH only university to get two grants for student research from same NSF division

UAH only university to get two grants for student research from same NSF division

Jan 31, 2019

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is the only case this year in which one National Science Foundation division funded two site Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) at the same university. ...

Marsbee mission gets a little more real thanks to systems engineering

Marsbee mission gets a little more real thanks to systems engineering

Jan 08, 2019

When Shahrom Doneshwar first learned about the NASA-funded plan to explore the surface of Mars using robotic bees, he says he "didn’t even know that it was possible!" Now, however, the master’s candidate in the Department of Industrial & Sy...

Dr. Gary Zank Talks Parker Solar Mission

Dr. Gary Zank Talks Parker Solar Mission

Jan 07, 2019

Dr. Gary Zank - Program Director for the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research - recently sat down with WHNT's Steve Johnson to discuss the Parker Solar Mission. See the interview here:   https://whnt.com/2018/12/30/uah-space-science-...

Gary Zank

NAS taps CSPAR director to head decadal survey for plasma physics

Sep 24, 2018

Dr. Gary Zank, director of UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science, has been named by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to co-chair a committee performing a decadal survey for pla...

NSF EPSCoR and UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker

NSF EPSCoR and UAH CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker

Sep 14, 2018

Dr. Gary Zank, NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL director, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will speak on three current space mission...

Gary Zank

CSPAR director to address NSF as distinguished speaker

Sep 13, 2018

Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and chair of the Department of Space Science at UAH, will speak on three current space missions of scientific discovery as a distinguished speaker at the National...

New Horizon Spacecraft

Confirmed: Solar Wind Shock Wave Gives Ions a Push

Sep 12, 2018

Measurements made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that shock waves in the solar wind transfer significant energy to ionized interstellar atoms, confirming a decades-old prediction made by our very own Dr. Gary Zank. See the full story here...

IMAP in space flying towards the sun

Proposal for interstellar mapping probe awarded $496 million grant by NASA

Jul 19, 2018

A team of astrophysicists that includes Dr. Gary Zank, chair of the Department of Space Science and the director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been awarded $496 million b...

Talwinder Singh

NESSF award funds student’s research into extreme space weather

Jun 18, 2018

Talwinder Singh, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Space Science at UAH, has been awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) for the 2018/2019 academic year. His proposal, entitled "Modeling Coronal Mass Ejections in the Solar W...

Dr. Robert Preece and graduate students Matthew Stanbro and Rachel Hamburg

UAH researchers receive NASA Space Flight Awareness Team Award

May 17, 2018

On the morning of August 17, 2017, Rachel Hamburg, a master’s student in the Department of Space Science at UAH, received a text message from a fellow graduate student at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). "He told me...